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Archive for July, 2009
27Jul
Going back to basics: CSS, Viewports, and sliders with jQuery.
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I was trying to write a toy program in Django this morning, something kinda silly and spicy, and one of the things I wanted was a horizontal scrolling special effect, using the animation tools in, say, Dojo or jQuery. And I realized, as I was writing it, that it had been almost two years since [...]
One very rare problem that hits some people with Drupal is that it hangs on installation, and never gets anywhere. Using Firebug, I was able to track the problem down to jQuery, then ripped out the minimized copy of jQuery, stuck in a full copy, and re-ran the install, which immediately revealed the bug. Drupal [...]
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- Tags: bug, Drupal, PHP, workaround
So, while working my way through my current project, I came across the notion of a ‘slot’ as discussed here. And I wondered, what the Hell is a slot? A slot is nothing more than a memory management nicety: when you define __slots__ on a class, you’re telling the Python interpreter that the list of [...]
I can’t tell if I’m suffering from the geek equivalent of writer’s block, analysis paralysis, overload, or some combination of all of the above. I’ve been working on a generalized platform for narrator, the story engine for the Journal Entries and everything else. As I’m working my way through the process, I’m thinking in typical [...]
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