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04 Oct 2013 Madrid’s photo marathon
Posted at 15:40h
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The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is...
04 Oct 2013 Josh Woodward – Already There Remix
Posted at 12:53h
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The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is...
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03 Oct 2013 Iceland’s volcano timelapse
Posted at 13:04h
in Art
The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is...
26 Aug 2013 Nginx with php-fpm generating blank page
I struggled a long time trying to figure out why my nginz + php-fpm setup was not working. I could tell that the gateway was fine and I was getting a HTTP 200 OK response, but the output was blank and there were no illuminating...
25 May 2012 Quick fix for “Expected token not present” in Apache2::Cookie
Posted at 11:41h
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A client's website of mine had been running fine for many years until a few weeks ago. Certain users of IE started getting this error: "Expected token not present" and were no longer able to login. My guess is that the design team switched some...
14 Oct 2011 Making Aquamacs kill and yank work with the clipboard
My favorite editor on the Mac is Aquamacs (me and Emacs go waaay back) and something that has long been a productivity killer for me was the different actions of C-y and CMD-V. This is due to there being two clipboards, the one belonging to the...
17 Jun 2011 Get the first N words with Javascript
Posted at 10:08h
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Here's how I get the first 20 words using a regular expression and the Javascript replace function. I place an ellipsis at the end to indicate that the sentence was shortened: var str1 = "Here is a sentence that just seems to go on and on....
20 May 2011 Find a Javascript parent node that matches a certain string
Here's a small bit of javascript that I use in my Sencha Touch projects to find a parent with an id that matches a string. function findParentNodeRegex(regex, childObj) { var testObj = childObj; var count = 1; while(!testObj.id.match(regex)) { //console.log('My...
23 Mar 2011 Click poster frame to start HTML5 video using jQuery
I needed to have an HTML5 video with a clickable poster frame. The first issue was that Safari would preload the movie, removing the poster frame after a few seconds. I fixed that by setting preload="none": <div id="promovid"> <video id="video" controls="controls" poster="video-poster.jpg" preload="none" width="640" height="480"> ...
05 Jan 2011 Arduino upload problem: avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
Posted at 15:16h
in arduino
There are a number of good posts out there discussing problems with uploading sketches to an arduino, but my problem was really basic: I had some wiring connected to digital ports 0 and 1 (TX and RX) and that was causing communication errors. I unplugged the...
02 Jan 2011 Daily Solar Tweets
Posted at 11:00h
in Uncategorized
I'm playing with a perl Net::Twitter app to see if I can tweet my solar production at the end of every day....
23 Jul 2010 RSS Has Been Replaced By Twitter
Posted at 09:24h
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I've been playing with Flipboard the past few days and a thought occurred to me. RSS has been replaced by Twitter. Flipboard is a compelling concept...
12 Apr 2010 Why tether? Just build iPad’s data plan into EVERY Apple product!
Posted at 12:58h
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Now that the iPad 3G will come with the option of a month-by-month no-contract data plan, why not offer all Apple products with that option? I would buy a new MacBook in a heartbeat if it offered the same sort of data plan....
20 Mar 2010 Detecting a click in a checkbox with jQuery
A simple script to detect when a checkbox is clicked. What you do with once you've detected the click is up to you. <html> <head> <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script> <script> google.load("jquery", "1.3.2"); google.setOnLoadCallback(function() { $('#agree').click( function() { if($(this).attr('checked')){ ...
19 Mar 2010 Redirect from within a WordPress admin page
I was trying to perform a redirect to generate a CSV file from within a Wordpress admin page using the wp_redirect( ) function, but the problem was that I would always get the dreaded "Cannot modify header information - headers already sent" message. This is...
15 Sep 2009 Result of expression ‘document.forms[0].submit’ [[object HTMLInputElement]] is not a function.
I was trying to add a small delay into my form submission like so: <form ...