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Joe Hewitt taking requests for Firebug

August 31st, 2006

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 8-)

Site Layout Screwy… Fixed

August 29th, 2006

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 8-)

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”..

widget.Effects updated

August 26th, 2006

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 8-)

Spam, spam, spam!!!

August 25th, 2006

<rant>SpamMan, 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:

Islamic Legal IAEA Foreign World Khatami Views Epic Literary Art Radio TV Cultural Heritage Weblogs Sport Olym Cities

ampTech. WLDJ: Complete PDF Archives TOP LINKS YOU MUST CLICK NewsActel Based IDE ARM GNU Compiler By: DeskAug. AMDigg Actels CoreMP industrys arrays FPGAs. widely compiler debugger provides programs CoreMP. tool enables designers easily embedded based complete Platform IDP Libero free. Users download Together three tools customers Fusion System PSC ProASIC families. quotThe allow letting advantage knowledge Thompson manager marketing Actel. mature highly addition includes simulator Further supports memory drivers IDP. FlashPro memory. Initially

DEAL everyone launch.Am turned forever Nah however wait research

numbers broken

source thatby macdethon concerned picture attached nothing plastic.

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>

More YUI Code snippets

August 18th, 2006

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

Enjoy 8-)

My .create() Add-On Updated to 0.3

August 15th, 2006

I recently updated my .create() add-on for the YAHOO.util.Dom tools and forgot to post any info on it 8-)

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.

More fun with the YUI

August 15th, 2006

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 8-)

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 8-)

New Code Snippet

August 14th, 2006

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.

Zach taking Shaolin Kung Fu classes!!

August 13th, 2006

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..

Drive-In Theater

August 9th, 2006

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 8-)

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.

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