Having gone through these three frameworks, I’m going to say something I wish other review sites said: For each purpose, there is a “best” framework. It all depends on context. The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) If you’re building a rich web application from scratch, YUI will have very thorough tools to do anything you…
Read More nano review of JavaScript frameworks (YUI, jQuery, moo)My Windows Vista Home Premium installation was on one of the Seagate 7200.11 drives with the bad firmware, so I’ve been trying to do something about it for a while now. This weekend I used SelfImage to copy my installation from one drive to another via my windows XP machine. After 12 hours of waiting…
Read More Ghosting a Windows Vista Home Premium InstallationI wanted to write a Greasemonkey script to modify all mailto: links on a page, but to do that, I have to find them first. Here’s my first attempt: //a[@href]/text()[contains(.,”@”)] It’s pretty bad. I wanted to find links starting with “mailto:” but couldn’t figure out how to operate on the href attribute. second attempt: //a/@href[contains(.,”mailto:”)]/..…
Read More Using XPath to find email address linksWhat I Was Planning On Doing: bike to work hang out, sync up with Austin @ work go to a local bike shop and check out pedals / new brakes P. Terry’s What I Did Instead: spend an hour taking off old corroded toilet lever bike to Home Depot get new lever / longer supply…
Read More What I Did TodaySo I installed AVG 8 Free. I think was using 7.5 Free before. The new interface is nice, but AVG seems to be going the Microsoft/Norton/Nero philosophy of adding as much junk as possible to get as many bullet points for their sales departments as possible. I also scanned some Microsoft Word macro viruses, and…
Read More AVG 8 Free: slicker interface, more bloat, less functionalitySo when I get frustrated at work, I work on this list of things that annoy me while working on Macs. Of course when the problem shows up, it’s things I hate about macs.
Read More Things I Hate About MacsSo I finally got around to doing some compression tests. My source was a 1280×720 23.98fps 10bit 4:2:2 “uncompressed” quicktime. That is a typical file that comes across my desk. I wanted to see what compression I should set my Final Cut Pro timeline to. At first, I opened the quicktime in Quicktime Player and…
Read More Working with 10bit 4:2:2 QuicktimesI used to use this Greasemonkey script for my todo list, but it stopped working months ago with no fix in sight. A good place to start looking for things that let you pretend to be productive is lifehacker, and they do not disappoint. http://lifehacker.com/399985/five-best-to+do-list-managers Some factors I’m considering: I don’t want to register for…
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