Firefox Extension Toolbarbutton CSS in Windows 7
Lesson learned today: If you have a Firefox extension and you use the toolbarbutton element. In Windows 7 you can only use list-style-image to style it. Background color, -moz-linear-gradient, and...
View ArticleComment Spam I’d Like to Use
WordPress comment spam almost worth saving to use on student papers if I were still teaching: Comment: Together with the whole thing that appears to be developing within this particular subject matter,...
View ArticleCasey Dreier’s Rack presentation
This evening Casey Dreier of Singlebrook Technology gave an excellent talk on Rack. As he explained, Rack the Ruby gem provides a common interface between Ruby applications and web servers. It allows...
View ArticleCoffeeScript Tips & Tricks
Following on my CoffeeScript talk at the Ithaca Web Group and my company, GORGES, I downloaded the new Pragmatic Programmers book on CoffeeScript. I have completed the language reference part, and...
View ArticleAdobe CS3 on Mac OSX: Licensing for this product has stopped working.
I ran into this problem when I had my MBP hard drive replaced. I openend Fireworks (or any Adobe app) and got a popup that said “Licensing for this product has stopped working.” Contact Adobe Customer...
View ArticleTimeCard App For BaseCamp
This is an Adobe AIR app for keeping your weekly timesheet in Basecamp. Like other Basecamp time apps, it has a timer and allows you to add time without having to jump from project to project, todo to...
View ArticleDVD Burning Woes on MacBook Pro Solved Happily
“The disc can’t be burned, because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.” This error plagued me on my 2007 model MacBook Pro until I realized I had bought DVD+R discs....
View ArticleInstance variable not assigned in view
I just spent a few minutes in la-la-land trying to figure out when an instance variable assigned in the controller stopped showing up in the view, despite all evidence that it was getting set correctly...
View ArticleTwo Hot Sauce Recipes – Smoky Red and Orange Habanero
These are the recipes for the hot sauces that I brought to Ruby DCamp 2013. There are two recipes – smoky red and orange habanero hot sauce. The flavors are quite different and complementary. I...
View ArticleTolstoy endures but here’s why the liberal arts may not
So I just read an interesting article tweeted by Parent Cortical Mass (@ParentCorticalM) by Valerie Strauss in the Washington Post “Answer Sheet.” The basic premise is that the liberal arts are in...
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