Consolidate your website forms with Uni-Form

From the site ” Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.”

Check it out here: http://dnevnikeklektika.com/uni-form/

Browse your subversion reposistories with style

I’ve been starting to use (and like) subversion more and more lately. I ran into a real mess recently with subversion and the Windows explorer shell tortiose, but for the most part i’ve like it. It just lacks an elegant web interface, until now. For a one time $30 fee, you can get a rails application that should browse your subversion repository with ease. They even have a tutorial on how to install it on Dreamhost.

http://warehouseapp.com/

Sync OpenOffice.org Docs with Google Docs

This looks interesting.  I like the idea of using Google Docs as a repository for my files, but I’m still not too thrilled with their editor.  This might fit the bill.

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo2gd

Using a bluetooth phone with Linux

This blog post from Ars Technia discusses how to use your linux distro with your blue tooth phone.  This post is perfect for me, it discusses using Ubuntu (my distro) with an LG Chocolate vx8550 phone (my phone).

 http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/12/10/using-a-bluetooth-phone-with-linux

Use Javascript to determine the dimensions of the browser

I have found the following Javascript works the best to get the dimensions of the browser (note: not the dimensions of the entire page if there is scrolling).

var myWidth = 0, myHeight = 0;

if (typeof(window.innerWidth) == ‘number’)

{

//Non-IE

myWidth = window.innerWidth;

myHeight = window.innerHeight;

}

else if (document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientHeight))

{

//IE6+ in ‘standards compliant mode’

myWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth;

myHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight;

}

else if (document.body && (document.body.clientWidth || document.body.clientHeight))

{

//IE4 compatible

myWidth = document.body.clientWidth;

myHeight = document.body.clientHeight;

}

Cadbury is trying it’s hand at viral marketing

http://www.glassandahalffull.com/

We’re going to be upgrading from Team System 2005 to 2008

We’re going to be upgrading Team System from 2005 to 2008 shortly, i’ll keep you posted of the steps and success/failure.  I think I figured out why VS2005 stopped being able to check-in files to source control, there was some odd .pdb file in the bin folder of one of my directories that was giving source control some problems.  Hopefully Team System 2008 won’t have these problems…

Upgrade VS 2008 from Beta 2 to RTM

I used the following blog post from Scott Guthrie’s Blog to uninstall VS 2008 Beta 2 before I installed VS 2008 RTM: Steps to Uninstall VS 2008 Beta2 before installing the VS 2008 Final Release

I also found this posted on Microsoft’s website:  Uninstalling Previous Versions of Visual Studio 2008

Glassbooth 2008 – Your Presidential Election Candidate

Glassbooth connects you to the presidential candidate that represents your beliefs the best. It’s a nice website with a short two-part quiz that will match up the candidates to your belief system.

Ta-Da! It’s Done?

37 Signals has the market cornered on simple, easy to use, “why didn’t I think of that” websites. Building upon their basecamp and backpack offerrings is a very simple to-do list application called TaDaList. Once again, it’s a simple ajax application that’s used to keep task lists. Utilizing an ajax library (such as my favorite Prototype) it makes organizing task lists simple. I’m still waiting for one to sync easily with a Palm. I really need to get an iPhone with internet access.