Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Iceland! – Our Trip Part 2
In my previous post, Our Trip So Far, I caught you all up to Tuesday afternoon, when I was writing blog posts from a local coffee shop. On Tuesday evening we had an early dinner at a Mexican restaurant which was delicious. Like many of the meals I’ve had in Iceland, the food wasn’t exactly…
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Iceland! – Our Hotel
We are staying at the Leifur Eiriksson hotel in Reykjavik. The Good: It’s cheap. I think we’re paying about $40/night. The location is great. Quick walk to the main shopping/restaurant drag, great view of the big church. The front desk has been super helpful at setting up tours, taxis, reservations. Free breakfast spread that’s better…
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Iceland! – Impressions
Iceland is an amazing country. The physical landscape is like no where else I’ve ever been. The old lava flow landscape looks like an other-worldly alien landscape. The mountains and glaciers appear out of the fog as these impossibly imposing edifices. On some of the shuttle trips that took us out into the desolate lava…
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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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