Archive for December, 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
First,
<insert your favorite holiday greeting here>
Been slightly quiet here now because I've been feeling a bit lazy, but on this time of the year it's allowed, right? ;)
I think I will start posting more regularily again after new years as I'm working on some interesting things.
Now with that out of ...
Posted in Programming, general | 1 Comment »
Friday, December 21st, 2007
Any of you who has used OOP in any "traditional" language, such as C++, Java or PHP and then tried to apply the stuff you know in JavaScript probably know that... things just don't work like you're used to.
But what are the things that actually are causing the confusion and ...
Posted in Programming | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
I was working on some C# code today, and had to figure out how to find a specific application's icon.
There's a lot of basic information on this, including messages like WM_GETICON in MSDN, but it just wouldn't work.
Posted in Programming | 3 Comments »
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Pie, just like pie menus, is great.
What is a "pie menu"? If you don't play games, you might not be very familiar with this great type of menu, as it isn't really used anywhere outside games as far as I know.
Pie menu is a menu, which opens around your cursor, ...
Posted in Programming, Web, general | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Everyone who has worked with Ajax probably knows how annoying it used to be sometimes to get the code working in some browsers (*coughiecough*)
This thing is now mostly a thing of the past, thanks to various great JavaScript libraries/frameworks providing excellent Ajax-functionality.
There's another thing too, though. A lot of people ...
Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »
Saturday, December 8th, 2007
My definition of a widget: a small web application inside your browser. Opera has had widgets for a while now, and I'm sure Firefox has a plugin which provides similar features. But what is the future of widgets?
I'm a widget developer - I have made quite many widgets and even ...
Posted in Web, general | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
While possibly a great help and a way to speed development up, are database access classes like Zend_Db and others making people forget about SQL?
ActiveRecord, Table Row Gateway and whatnot, are people trying to constrain their thinking inside the bounds given by these implementations?
Posted in Programming, general | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Have you ever used Eclipse or any Eclipse-based IDE, such as Zend Studio Neon or Aptana Studio?
All fine tools, but they have a big problem: Java
Posted in Programming, general | 15 Comments »
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
I had recently been getting increased amounts of spam comments and I was wondering why. You probably hadn't noticed this, though, thanks to WordPress' excellent spam detection which has so far made a very good job in detecting suspicious comments.
Up until today.
Today, a single spam comment got through the detection. ...
Posted in Web, general | 2 Comments »
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