While useful on the HTMLDocument interface, getElementsByName() would be much more useful if it was included in HTMLFormElement interface. Every time I want to look up elements by their names, it’s usually on form elements rather than the document as a whole. Come to think of it, I don …
Beta, my ass! When exactly did the words ‘demo’ and ‘beta’ get mixed up? Back in the old days, a demo version was an incomplete version of the game, given out to drum up interest in the end product, whereas a beta version was a complete version of the game …
Triggered by this post on Bram Cohen’s blog, I posted up this reply. I think I’d better outline what I’m talking about.
Ireland uses the Single Transferrable Vote for just about everything, including by-elections and presidential elections. However, it’s always struck me that the concept of …
I’m spending a lot of time connected via Windows Remote Desktop to an external network so that I can do work on their machines.
So here’s a question: are there any IT departments out there that are using this to give their users old-style dumb terminals so as …
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I’ve edited this down a little bit. A snapshot of the original post is here.
I’m a fan of unobtrusive JavaScript and I’ve strove to make my JavaScript code as unobtrusive as possible for years now.
However, I discovered something about IE a while ago when …
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A cache of the original can be found here.
I hit an annoying problem with a project at work. It’s not my fault, there’s nothing wrong with the code, but sometimes things will happen: people will delete images out of the backend, not upload the image they …
While Sage is the closest I’ve ever got to an RSS aggregator I actually liked, it’s still not right. There are just too many things about it that irk me somewhat.
I’ve tried so many of the blasted things and a few things have been confirmed for …
Sales are great. I picked up a copy of China Miéville‘s The Scar in Hardback for next to nothing!
Also, Waterstones finally managed to source a copy of Describing Morphosyntax for me. I placed an order for it two months ago, and it only came on Friday. This is …
Ever since reading Terence Parr’s Enforcing Strict Model-View Separation in Template Engines (PDF), I’ve wanted something like StringTemplate for PHP.
Maybe not something exactly the same, but a templating system that would perform similarly as far as the person developing the templates would be concerned, but the coder …
Right now I’m worried. I haven’t posted up anything since it happened because I didn’t know what to write, but I’m worried about Thérèse and Vinnie, two friends of mine who are travelling through SE Asia right now.
I haven’t heard word from them in …
I wrote this ages ago, but I want to post it somewhere so I won’t lose it if my phone dies or something. And vanity, of course.
Model: Nokia 3310 Tempo: 180BPM
2c2 4c2 2f2 4f2
2e2 4e2 2c2 4c2
2d2 4d2 4c2 4d2
4c2 4b1 4a1 2g1
4g1 …I’ve been keeping quiet about this for ages, but now I can talk about it.
Some of my friends are after opening a gaming café here in Cork. The quality of the existing ones isn’t that great and, seeing as we all go gaming pretty often, they decided …
I’m changing the name of my ColdFusion-based wiki engine to FusionWiki. Why? I want to put it up on SourceForge, and KWiki was already taken. And it’s a cool name.
I applied to have the project created just today, so it might take a while before they get …
I’ve a project here at work. I need to write a ColdFusion custom tag in Java to talk to a remote server. This tag needs to handle a bunch of different requests and responses, but putting all that code in the one class would be a bit messy, and …
Sweet mother!
I had to head off to CIT to pick up some tickets for the graduation ball. When I got back to the offices, things were fine, but Dan’s after looking outside the window, and the city’s completely flooded! It took just 40mins for a one-foot deep …
I was talking to Peter last night about Laszlo. There are these times you need confirmation of why you have difficulty going off and either learning or writing something. I’ve a few projects like this, and something he said, quite off the cuff mind you, was a trigger.
He …
An idea’s been bouncing around in my head for a while now. Right now, I don’t have any comment moderation, and I wouldn’t like to have to build a moderation system, primarily not because of the difficulty—it’s not hard—but because I don’t like …
I’d really like to know if there’s a way to set up a callback of some kind that would allow a program to be informed of when a certain file is updated. Not just any file, but a particular file.
I’ve taken a look through MSDN, disorganised …
Feck, I’d might as well post it now.
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An old post from the second iteration of my blog. I was actually pretty down on myself back then about all this, though it only comes out here and there. This attempt, as you might guess, failed.
There’s one thing that I really dislike about myself, and that …