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17 Dec, 2007

Consolidate your website forms with Uni-Form

Posted by: kyanachik In: Ajax

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: [...]

12 Dec, 2007

Browse your subversion reposistories with style

Posted by: kyanachik In: Ajax

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 [...]

12 Dec, 2007

Sync OpenOffice.org Docs with Google Docs

Posted by: kyanachik In: Linux

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

12 Dec, 2007

Using a bluetooth phone with Linux

Posted by: kyanachik In: 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

11 Dec, 2007

Use Javascript to determine the dimensions of the browser

Posted by: kyanachik In: Ajax

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 [...]

11 Dec, 2007

Cadbury is trying it’s hand at viral marketing

Posted by: kyanachik In: Websites

http://www.glassandahalffull.com/

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 [...]

11 Dec, 2007

Upgrade VS 2008 from Beta 2 to RTM

Posted by: kyanachik In: ASP.Net

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 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.

10 Dec, 2007

Ta-Da! It’s Done?

Posted by: kyanachik In: Websites

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 [...]