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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 04:50:51 PM in Web Development | Comments (0)
I Finally Took a Vacation in 2008
Last month my family and I took a vacation. We visited my wife's sister and brother in law. My son picked us up from the Atlanta airport and with my Garmin GPS for directions, we drove to our sister and brother in law's new house in Alabama. As we came up the driveway we glimpsed their new home.
The house is big, much bigger than they thought it would be from looking at the plans. It is a beautiful home and they are gracious hosts. They live on a small hill right next to the lake.
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 10:53:20 PM in Family Life | Comments (0)
JSMin and JavaScript Conditional Comments
In Robert Nyman's post Conditional Compilation in JavaScript he noted that “Unfortunately, JSMin removes conditional compilation comments, but I believe this is due to not having been updated in a while, and not up to speed with modern web development practices”. So I took that on as a project. I took Franck Marcia's javascript implementation of JS Minifier and modified the javascript code to not take out Microsoft javascript conditional comments.
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008 07:00:00 AM in Web Development | Comments (1)
Domino Directory Type Ahead
Around December 2006 I read a tip on Julian Robichaux's site about Google Suggest-type Lookups In Notes code he had written. I downloaded the code and thought that I could make a few improvements. I changed the code to:
- Use Object Literal Notation.
- Added highlighting/auto complete support.
- Changed to code to dynamically create script elements for data instead of using the XML HTTP request object. Using script files gets rid of cross domain scripting security issues.
- Supports multiple input fields instead of one field.
- Supports the ($VIMPeopleAndGroups), ($VIMGroups) and ("Servers") views in addition to the ($VIMPeople) view.
I'm sorry it's taken a year and a half to publish.
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Monday, May 26th, 2008 07:59:51 PM in Web Development | Comments (0)
DOMContentLoaded for Browsers, Part V
For those of you that don't know what the DOMContentLoaded event can do for you, here's a brief description.
The DOMContentLoaded event allows you to add behavior or change the HTML of a page after the HTML has loaded and before the onload event which happens after the complete page, including images has loaded. This allows you to add menu, tree behavior, AJAX functionality or anything else without having to wait for all items on a page to load. You may have experienced the need for a DOMContentLoaded event on a page that includes drop down menus or a tabbed interface which doesn't work until all images have loaded. Using the DOMContentLoaded event allows you to add the behavior before images and objects have loaded.
When I originally added the DOMContentLoaded event handler to Dean Edwards' addEvent function, I wanted it to be just another addEvent type. Since then I've changed my mind and created a domReady() function. By separating domReady in its own module, it can used with most frameworks.
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Monday, May 26th, 2008 03:05:48 PM in Web Development | Comments (0)