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Entries from November 2008

A wordpress tag cloud plugin

November 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’ve just finished building a new plugin for Wordpress named Blibahblubah. This is a plugin that allows you to customize effects that occur when you mouse over the tag cloud. I wrote an user guide for the plugin here.

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IE7 Javascript debugging

November 6th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m an ex-Windows user who works primarily on a Mac these days. I recently needed to go back to my Windows PC and debug javascript from IE7, it is bizarre how hard it is to get to actual useful debugging information. You are supposed to dive down through Internet Options -> Advanced and then set Disable Script [...]

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Tags: ones and zeroes · rants

IE7: no comment

November 6th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Ugh, the popupper plugin that I wrote already got bug reports from IE7 users. I work on my laptop and tested it on Safari, Camino, and Firefox. Unfortunately, I never checked out IE7. It turns out that some HTML/Javascript comments that work on Safari/Camino/Firefox don’t work on IE7.
My plugin was creating HTML that looked like:

<script type=’text/javascript’>//<!–
 …
//–!></script>

… this does not work [...]

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Waiting a Century

November 5th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been waiting since January 20, 2001 for there to be a new President. It has been a long eight years, it has seemed like more downs than ups in many ways. I hope Barack can repair the damage done by the current administration.

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Tags: politics