Month: March 2009
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Iceland! – Our Trip So Far
On Friday evening Emma’s folks graciously took us to the airport, where we met up with Kate, Dan, and David, and caught a red-eye flight on IcelandAir to Keflavik airport in Iceland. The plane was recently upgraded with seat-back entertainment screens, like Jet Blue, and the flight was only four and a half hours, so…
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Provide Useful Error Messages
In the event that something on your site goes wrong, you should present an error message to the user that looks professional, is helpful, and ideally provides advice (try again later, call our support line, etc…). TicketMaster hasn’t figured that out yet: is what I see after I tried to buy some tickets. Here are…
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Hiding and Showing a Dijit ContentPane in a TabContainer
There is no simple method of hiding and showing a Dijit ContentPane. If you are displaying a number of ContentPanes within a TabContainer you may need to hide (and possibly redisplay) one or more of the ContentPanes. For instance if the tabs are displaying information based on a selected product/user/etc… some tabs might not be…
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Why I Love Having 8 Gigs of RAM
I recently upgraded my primary computer from a 15″ MacBookPro with 4 GB of RAM to a 17″ MacBookPro with 8 GB of RAM. That probably sounds gratuitous. Here’s why it’s not: I’m currently running: Mac OS 10.5.6 Adium (IM chat client) Mail.app (e-mail client) iCal (calendar application) iTunes (music) OmniFocus (GTD todo list) TextMate…
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10MinuteMail Update
I’ve just launched a few minor changes to 10MinuteMail which will hopefully improve the user experience. – I’ve moved the explanatory text off of the home page to an About page. The old index page was way too text heavy, and was frankly badly written (I didn’t use a copyeditor and once it had been…
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Ant Exec Spawn Jobs Broke Under Hudson?
A recent update of Hudson, a great continuous integration engine, has fixed one bug, only to introduce a new one. On February 19th, 2009, Hudson bug #2729 (an issue about Hudson not cleaning up run-away processes after the build is complete) was fixed by Hudson now killing off all processes created by the build task,…