Davs Rants and Random Thoughts

Site Performance and Grid Builder

December 15th, 2006

Hey all –

The site may be suffering a bit due to the GridBuilder being placed on various
del.icio.us popular lists.

So I have updated the GridBuilder to make it a bit lighter (from 3.7 sec download to a 1.6 sec download). I have also added some info in the Show Code and the About windows to point to the YUI CSS Grids.

Let me know if you find any issues..

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Yahoo HackDay Q4 06

December 10th, 2006

Me waiting for my turn to show off my Hack

Originally uploaded by freshelectrons.

Well, I participated in another HackDay this Thursday and Friday. I can’t tell you what my hack was about, but I can say that it was pretty kewl and got a warm reception from others at the event.

Here are a couple of photos of me at the event, well the photos aren’t of me, but I am in them..

Enjoy

Update: Well it turns out that I won Best Hack for my submission.

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GridsBuilder updated

December 5th, 2006

I have updated the GridsBuilder. It is a very minor update to include a couple of bug fixes and some simple enhancements. Most notably I have added the dp.SyntaxHighlighter to the Show Code feature.

Let me know if you see any issues.

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Attention YUI and vim users

December 4th, 2006

I don’t know how many other developers out there choose to use vim/gvim for writing Javascript code, but I have created a couple of useful files for vim to help. (Being the old-skool hacker I am)

I have modified the stock javascript syntax file to include a few of the YUI methods and I have modified the stock javascript Omni Completion autocomplete file to include them as well.

You can get the first version of these files here.

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