A short post about using const in C++. Click To Read More...
Archive for January, 2008
Lost Returns - Where Is Lost-Vivor?
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008The writer’s strike might actually be good for ABC’s Lost Season 4, which starts on its new night this Thursday - don’t forget! This being one of the few shows with more than a handful of episodes (8) while other shows are airing the bits and pieces they have saved up from before the writer’s strike. Any suggestions on how to sedate my kids by 7 AM CST (8 PM EST) on Thursdays?
But where, oh where, is Jess of Apropos of Something? I will really be disappointed if I don’t have Lost-vivor to look forward to this year.
My IE8 Predictions
Monday, January 28th, 2008Lots of continued discussion about Internet Explorer and Microsoft’s support of web standards. Sam Ruby continues to finesse his SVG-via-Silverlight solution (improvement: use createElement() and then some XSLT to transform from SVG’s XML elements to XAML’s). Shelley Powers continues to finesse her ultimatum (ultimatae?) to Microsoft. I thought I’d post a few loose predictions of what I think IE8 will have when released. Click To Read More...
Microsoft’s “Super Standards” Mode: Important Facts
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008The IEBlog let the world know how you’re going to have to opt in for their third (and counting) rendering mode that IE8 will support. You know, the one that should support CSS2 the way other browsers already do without such a mode. Put the following into your <head> section of your page and you’ll get IE8’s “super standards” mode.
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=8″ />
There are, of course, many many unanswered questions… For those who can’t be bothered to read my whole post, please see the main point. For others with patience, Click To Read More...
Kung Pao
Monday, January 21st, 2008Where’s the best place to get Kung Pao in the Chicago area? Bonus points if it’s in the NorthWest suburbs…
The Whole PHP5 Migration Thing
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008I recently made the switch from PHP4 to PHP5. Let me know if you see any breakages. Lots of hoopla about PHP4 being EOL‘d in 2007, effectively forcing everyone (including hosts) to upgrade to PHP5. Click To Read More...
Adobitrocity
Friday, January 11th, 2008I came across Laurent Grégoire’s CVS Quick Reference Card. I needed something quick and handy to put on my thumb drive, so I figured this would do. Only problem is that my Windows box only understood Adobe’s PDF format. I’ve grown to really dislike PDF, primarily for the fact that the Adobe Acrobat Reader takes forever to come up and has become bloated. Since I have Adobe Acrobat Professional Version 8.0.0 installed here, I thought I’d see what formats I could convert the file into for doing some minor edits to the file Click To Read More...