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A jQuery 1.3 quirk that bit me
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
deviantART just upgraded to jQuery 1.3, and we found an undocumented jQuery change that broke some things.
The behavior of the :enabled selector changed. Before it selected all enabled form elements, now it selects all enabled and non-hidden form elements. This bit us, because we were using jQuery to assemble some form elements to submit over [...]
NautilusSVN
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
NautilusSVN is a TortoiseSVN clone for the GNOME file browser, Nautilus.
I am very happy to have found this. Now, I just need someone to write “NautilusGit”. (Or wait for the NautilusSVN project to do what they say they plan to, and extend it to cover multiple VCSs…)
Smart Home in TextMate
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
I really like “smart home” behavior in text editors. That is, I like it when pressing the “home” key first moves the cursor to the start of the indented text on that line, and then to the very beginning of the line on a second press.
I go out of my way to enable this behavior, [...]
TextMate bundle: Ack in Project (improved)
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
I use
TextMate for work. It’s a good editor, doesn’t get in my way, and I take advantage of relatively few of its nifty features.
One problem with TextMate is that its built-in search is very slow, especially across a large project. Since I work with a full checkout of the deviantART source code, [...]
Detecting failure
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
I warn you in advance that this post does not end with a resolution of my problems.
For reasons relating to dynamic loading of javascript dependencies, I wanted to find a way to tell:
When a script tag finishes loading a file
Whether that file was successfully loaded
For various reasons, I didn’t want to add cruft into the [...]
A few useful git links
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
I recently saw
one approach to the “what git branch am I on?” issue, which (if you’re using the bash shell) puts your current branch into your prompt.
There’s also
tortoisegit for Windows. TortoiseSVN has always been one of the best things about SVN, so it’s good to see a clone pop up for git.
Intrepidly lacking
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
I updated my desktop to the new Ubuntu release (Intrepid Ibix)
This is mostly good, but I discovered a problem as a side-effect of them improving their mouse support. Now that my mouse is auto-detected with all its buttons, the side-button no longer defaults to being a middle-click. I like having the side-button do [...]
Deliciously rebranded
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Del.icio.us rebranded to Delicious, along with a new URL. This happened a week or two ago.
Incidentally, this new URL broke my delicious widget. I just noticed that a half-hour ago.
So it’s fixed.
Distracted
Monday, July 14th, 2008
I’ve been very distracted by a new job since the end of April. Thus, quiet.