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Are you daring to challenge djuggler? April 14, 2009 4:05 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Of Interest
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Meet me in My Brute arena and become my student! (Don’t worrry. All you do is type in your name. The battles are automated so this isn’t one of those productivity sinks.)

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OOOooh NO! April 14, 2009 1:14 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Software, Technology
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Khaaaaaannnnnn!

Starting on or about the third week of April, users still running IE6 or IE7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008 will get will get a notification through Automatic Update about IE8. This rollout will start with a narrow audience and expand over time to the entire user base. On Windows XP and Server 2003, the update will be High-Priority. On Windows Vista and Server 2008 it will be Important. [Source, IEBlog, Prepare for Automatic Update distribution of IE8]

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Thank you! April 14, 2009 7:26 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Programming, Technology
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I banged my head against a wall last night until it bled. I woke at 3:30am this morning to pound on the wall some more. I consulted peers on IRC. I Googled. I Blingo‘d. Finally I began to type my situation here.

On one of my projects, I am using a modal dialog to present forms to the user. These forms submit the user input to the server via ajax and depending upon the return from the server either present an error message or perform and action then close. The staple of a good programmer is code reuse. In my case, I have written a module to pop up the dialog box and, based upon a variable passed into the module, populate the dialog box with the correct form.

I proceeded to type an abbreviated, generic version of the code segment that was giving me grief. And as I neared the end, I saw my typo! Problem resolved. Life can move on. Now that’s a good use of a blog!

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Moment of Old April 14, 2009 7:15 am

Posted by utterz in : Daily Life, Podcasting
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