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I was doing some UI work this morning and ran into a bit of a problem. We have some HTML input elements that need to be disabled so the user can not interact with them. The problem is, we wanted to display a message to the user if they tried to interact with the element. While some browsers …
keywords checkboxes, delegation, div, elegant solution, firefox, hotspot, html/coldfusion, input type, javascript, jquery, loop through, mouse events, related events
Rey Bango and had a little discussion this morning on Twitter about a JScript update Microsoft recently released to fix a native JSON feature in Internet Explorer 8 . I made the comment that it's really only a useful, if Microsoft really automatically pushes the update to users (which I meant …
keywords automatic updates, bango, beta software, browser updates, buggy, css hacks, dialog, google, html css, html/coldfusion, interaction, internet explorer 8, js, jscript, microsoft, risk, twitter, visual indication, web developer
For the longest time I've been stuck on Mylyn Eclipse Plug-in v3.0.5—which is very old. Every time I attempted to upgrade to a newer version, Mylyn could no longer authenticate against my Trac installation on Apache. It was a frustrating problem, because I really wanted to upgrade to take …
keywords active directory, apache 2, apache configuration, apache httpd, directory server, eclipse, enhancements, longest time, mylyn, potpourri, proxy, source code, subversion, traffic
Many of you may know that the wife and I have our first baby due this Spring. One the things I've been researching since I found out the wife was pregnant has been IP cameras. I really like the idea of being able to check in on the baby at any time to make sure she's ok—without actually …
keywords asf, bonus, codec, grandparents, iphone, models, mole, personal, windows media player
For Christmas this year, the big family gift was a new Samsung PN58B860 58" Plasma TV. Our old TV worked fine, but with the baby on the way I we wanted try and reclaim some living room space—much of which was being taken up by our old Mitsubishi 55" rear projection TV. We …
keywords cable tv, internet connection, internet connections, new tv, personal, plasma tv, power supply, quot, several times, technology, xbox 360
Several years ago, I bought a set of Milwaukee power tools. I love the tools, but one of the batteries seemed to die after a few years (but very little usage.) The batteries are like $80 and since I don't use the tools very often, I've never bothered replacing the one that seemed to be dead …
keywords potpourri
Yesterday I rebooted my personal dev server and much to my chagrin, when the server started back up the ColdFusion 8 Search Server service (aka Verity) would not start. Any attempt to start the service would result in the following error: Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly. I looked …
keywords alias, chagrin, coldfusion server, dev server, error error, google, html/coldfusion, k2, parsed, root cause, server service, threads
Sometime in the last week or so, Flash stopped working me on many sites. It seemed to stop working around the time of the last Microsoft Vista updates, but I can't be sure. The strange thing is, it worked on some sites (like Adobe) but wasn't working on a lot of the sites I was visiting. I tried …
keywords adobe, break, firebug, firefox, flash components, flex/flash, high priority, lt, microsoft, microsoft vista, qa, source code, strange thing
Occasionally I've run into a situation where I've wanted to add some whitespace between two options in a <select /> element. The most common solution I've seen people use is to include an empty <option></option> tag pair. While this works, it adds a blank entry that the user …
keywords better solution, element, html/coldfusion, lt, modern browsers, whitespace
While working on some code today, I faced a problem I've run into a few times in the past where I needed to find the first usable input element within a specific context. What I mean by "usable" is an element which is visible to the user and not disabled. Finding the first usable input …
keywords amp, attr, jquery, tabs, use case, v1
