Runners get a runner’s high. I’ve got a coder’s high. My head is buzzing as I’ve been hitting the keys hard. My current PHP application has dynamic content loaded via AJAX but when the user navigates with the browser’s forward or back buttons the state is lost, that is, all the dynamic content disappears. Also if the natural navigation of the application takes the user away from the dynamically generated content, when they return the content is lost and the user frustratingly has to drill down, dynamically loading more content, to get back to where they were. Using jQuery, some custom JavaScript, and some fandangled PHP, I have overcome this obstacle and created a state engine that remembers which content was loaded and re-presents it on the screen whenever the user navigates with the browser’s forward or back buttons or the applications natural navigation. I’ve just finished the behind the scenes mechanics of this code and now have to fix the presentation level (after a 10 minute break). Whew! This was fun!
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Not so close shave
I am starting to come to terms with the fact that an electric shaver needs new blades more than once every half a decade. For that matter, I probably should buy a new electric shaver more than once decade.
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From the mouths of babes
Ring, ring.
Dad: "Hello?"
Amy, 6 years old: "Mom won’t buy something for me!"
Dad: "Didn’t you just go to Young Chefs?"
Amy: "Well, yeah but I want her to buy something just for me."
Dad: "But Young Chefs was just for you."
Amy, whining: "But Daaad. I want her to buy me something."
Dad: "Amy, you’ve been temper tantruming and whining a lot lately and that makes it awfully hard to…"
Phone becomes quiet and a distance voice is heard, Amy: "Here, I don’t want to talk to him anymore." -
McCain’s Fallback Career – Comedian
McCain also got some good laughs at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner:
I haven’t found McCain’s closing yet although ABC has a 13 minute version of John’s performance but they don’t provide the ability to embed and the quality on my machine is painful to watch like ABC had their mics too hot. Be sure to watch Obama’s Fallback Career – Comedian.
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Obama’s Fallback Career – Comedian
Obama roasts McCain at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner:
Obama’s closing remarks:
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The Sirens Are Dragging Me to the Rocks
I can hear the sound of the Sirens in the bed. They want me to go to it! I cannot give in. (The lovely sound of rain right now is not helping)
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From the mouths of babes
Amy: "I don’t want spaghetti for dinner."
Dad: "Good. We aren’t having spaghetti for dinner."
Amy: "Well, Mom said we are having spaghetti."
Dad: "I am cooking something different."
Amy: "Well, whatever it is, I want something else." -
Today’s Forecast
100% chance of suckage
Last night’s severe storms have attracted a large tropical depression. Clouds of gloom rolling in. Pervading darkness spreading throughout.
