Davs Rants and Random Thoughts

I just noticed this on Joe Hewitt’s blog, but he is asking for suggestions to go into the next version of Firebug.

So head on over there and add your comments

Just an FYI, the site’s layout is a bit screwy at the moment.. Trying to import & use the YUI CSS fonts, rest & grids files.

Hopefully I will get it all lined out tonight

Update: I got the site migrated over to the YUI Grids CSS.. There may be a few things left to tweek, but I think it’s ok for now.. Let me know what you think or if you run into any “glitches”..

I added 6 more effects to my widget.Effects addon..

• YAHOO.widgets.Effects.Show()
• YAHOO.widgets.Effects.Hide()
• YAHOO.widgets.Effects.Fade()
• YAHOO.widgets.Effects.Appear()
• YAHOO.widgets.Effects.BlindUp()
• YAHOO.widgets.Effects.BlindDown()

Enjoy

<rant>Man, I hate spam. I have had my davglass.com email address for over 10 years now. I guess it’s nice to have it, but in that time the amount of spam I receive is unbelievable. Take a look at this picture, that’s alot of spam huh? That is a the amount of spam I get in a week and a half. Yes, I said 10 days. I have gotten over 3000 spam messages in 10 days. Let’s break that down:

• 300 per day
• 12.5 an hour
• 0.208.. per minute
• 9,000 per month (30 days)
• 109,500 per year

Now, I have seen some of the messages. Most of the make absolutley no sense what-so-ever. So my question is:
Why are there so many idiots out there sending me 109,500 spam messages a year? Most of them don’t even contain simple messages. Example:

What the hell is the above supposed to mean?

1. Is it a bad translation?
2. Is it a virus that makes all normal text look like that?
3. Is it simply a monkey slamming his ass off of a keyboard?

Personally I vote for number 3 !</rant>

I have added a couple more code snippets for the YUI.

• YUI: Animation Sequences
• YAHOO.widget.Effects
• Calendar Attached to Text Input

Enjoy

I recently updated my .create() add-on for the YAHOO.util.Dom tools and forgot to post any info on it

You can see the examples here..
The updates include:

• Fixed an issue with single style lines with an (;) at the end of the declaration
• Fixed an issue with style declarations that have more than one dash (-) in the name (list-style-type)
• Added support for listener calls in the attribute object:

              listener: [eventAction, function, base, scope]
              get's translated into:
              YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(elm, eventAction, function, base, scope);

• Added support for re-ordering the arguments.

I got this crazy idea over the weekend & thought it would be kewl to write a game with the YUI libraries.

First I started by trying to write a Solitaire game, but then I decided that it would be better to start smaller

So I threw together this simple version of BlackJack.

The important part of this set of code is not the code logic, but the DeckOfCards JS Object that I create & use.

The logic is “OK”, I didn’t put in the rule for an Ace being worth either 1 point or 11 points.

Next I want to try Poker

I added another code snippet last night for the YUI Calendar.

You can see it here.

The snippet shows how to select an entire week, instead of a single day.

This weekend Zach took his first two Shaolin Kung Fu classes. He was a little iffy in the first class, but seemed to enjoy it more the second time around. At Ben’s Kung Fu, they offer a really good set of classes, from children’s classes to adult classes, as well as Tai Chi classes.

I am most interested in taking some of the Tai Chi classes. I think that the park down the street from us has Tai Chi classes on the weekends, I will have to check them out..

Wow, Donna was surfing today & found out that we have a drive-in theater no more than 20 minutes from our house. Century Capitol Drive-In. This is totally kewl, Donna & I used to go to the one back home almost every weekend, until it closed.. Now that was a real bummer. I simply love drive-in theaters, I get to go to a theater & bring my own food, sit in my own comfy vehicle & I get to smoke without leaving the theater

Zach doesn’t remember going because he was too small to remember, but we are taking him to this one this weekend. I think he will love it, besides we are going to see BarnYard & My Super Ex-Girlfriend. I’ll write back to let you all know what I think of the place..

Update: The theater was pretty good, a little on the dirty side, but otherwise it was enjoyable.