I admit it, I am a helpless geek: I love collecting old calculators and computing devices. My wife thinks I'm bananas, and she may be right, but there's just something about holding something from the dawn of calculating electronics. […]
READ MORENed Batchelder is a tech blogger I like to read, although he tends to deal with languages and situations I don't. Nevertheless he comes up with some great insights that have applicability to what I do and some great topics that extend what I know. […]
READ MOREAs detailed over on my work blog, I installed IE8 RC1 this morning. Because my home page in IE7 was this blog (it is in all my browsers), it was the first thing to come up in IE8. And IE8 immediately flipped into compatibility mode and displayed the page as if it was IE7. To put it mildly, this was both weird and aggravating, since the whole site validates both as XHTML 1.0 transitional and as CSS 2.1. There should have been no problem. […]
READ MOREAfter a while of using my archive calendar, the statistics for page views were starting to get really skewed in favor of the archive "post". It finally got to the point where the graph that's displayed under the Reporting tab in the Graffiti control panel had a line for archive that was 5 times longer than the nearest "real" post. Since the information about the number of people using the archive system is not that interesting to me, it was time to do something about it. […]
READ MOREIt's been a day. Or, rather, Day: it deserves to be capitalized. […]
READ MOREFile this under the, duh, why didn't I think of that category. Scott Cate has written a neat little widget/Chalk extension for Graffiti CMS that tracks 404s on your website. […]
READ MOREI set myself a task: write some raw JavaScript for a web page. By raw, I mean no jQuery, no Prototype, no MooTools, just me and the editor. […]
READ MOREWell that didn't take too long. Just enough time to open up an account at CodePlex, start a new project, point TortoiseSVN at it, and upload. The biggest time sink was actually the readme file and deciding on the license (I went for the MIT license). […]
READ MORELast time I kind of trailed off. The Archive Calendar was working fine as a Chalk extension and I had a business trip to make for a week and doing the work to change it into a widget wasn't at the top of my list. […]
READ MOREMan, paging — the second bug I'd reported to myself in part 4 — was long-winded, mainly because I was trying to use the built-in paging system and spent far too much time tracing through Graffiti code in Reflector. In the end, I abandoned that line of attack, mainly because I think I'd been gaming GraffitiCMS by creating a "post" called archive, when it was really a list of posts, and the auto-generated default.aspx was all wrong for that purpose. Further investigation will wait for a rainy day. […]