Casual Rumblings

We're implementing SVN in our office and well, things are well under way.

However, people are going to start committing their changes in various ways. So reading commits from multiple developers (might) prove to be confusing.

I was playing around with SVN for eclipse and it's got a great feature called, "Commit Templates".

Being new, I created 2 templates for myself and was thinking about making Commit Templates a standard among the developers.

Here's what I made up so far:

=BUG FIX=

Bug Description:

Fix:

Project:


=NEW FEATURE=

Description:

Project:


Again, these are just for me. I was wondering if anyone else has any other templates that you use and like?

Thanks!

I love jquery! Let me just say that now. I'm a true convert from prototype/scriptaculous. I love prototype for all it's pros. But, I can't deny the support from the jQuery community and the momentum it has in the web world.

With that said, I dove in and started playing around with the jQuery UI plugin (built by the jQuery guys of course). The dialog plug in is simply DOPE!! (is that a youngin' term?)

I was playing around with a logout confirmation dialog and here's what I've come up with. It's a bit verbose for my taste and by NO means the best way to do this. But, I do hope it points people in the right direction if they're looking to do something like this.

The demo can be found here: Logout demo

Ok, I just downloaded the latest and greatest Redmond browser. I have to say there are some good things and then of course, there are bad things. It's by far worlds better than IE 6, but it's still....Internet Explorer.

Here's a thought...Why doesn't M$ just stop making IE altogether? Seriously? They've made web development a headache since day one of IE. Tried to gain market share and control how to program for the web. That failed miserably.

Suggestion? Why not have M$ partner with FF to help distribute with their OS? MS won't partner with the other browsers (Safari? ha! Ballmer and Jobs partnering?, Chrome? ha! Didn't Ballmer want to eradicate google from the planet?) Just makes sense to me if M$ and FF partner. We'd be so much better off with web development and "standards" compliance.

Ok..time for me to get off the hookah heheheh

Oh...Bring Down IE6!

I was very intrigued at the new IE 8 so I went and downloaded it and installed it.

After 3mins of using it, I realized, "God this clicking sound with every link click is like a mosquito on your ear while you're trying to sleep". I haven't used IE in MONTHS (if it weren't so damn tied to the WinOS I'd have removed it eons ago), so I've been relieved of it's annoyances.

Then I used the greatest thing since sliced bread, and searched google for "annoying click sounds IE".

Found this: Remove Annoying Clicks IE

Nuff said....

no wait..."DIE IE!!!"

Now...Nuff said..

I was intrigued by Ray Camden's blog about simple dialog popups with jQuery. I saw some of his examples and wanted to take them a step further.

http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/2/1/Creating-a-Dialog-with-jQuery-UI


His example shows that the content is inline with the document and the jQuery code just extracts it from the page and shows it in a dialog box. Cool, yeah, but...what if you wanted to pull in external content?

This is what I came up with:

The "example" div is within the page. It's blank. But, get's populated by the open option within the dialog options. That's how I got around it.

Can anyone tell me if this is the "best practices" way of doing this? Is there a better more efficient way?

Dialog Demo

Ray Camden blogged about this recently and I thought I'd take time out to do some of this jQuery/Ajaxy stuff myself.

I was in the midst of trying to figure out how to to a simple login authentication process with CF8 and jQuery.
I've done this in the past with Prototype and this wonderful ajax library JSMX. Simple library to use..just love it! But, with the times, I figured I should try this "jQuery" thing. Seems to be alot of momentum behind it and there's been a lot of raves. So I dove in.

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Does anyone know of any flex groups (google or yahoo) that are geared towards those just getting their feet wet with Flex?

I'm in the midst of doing some coding in it and have a ton of questions. I'd love to have post some of my questions and get some feedback from the guru's of the flex community.

Thanks

If you're planning on attending Web 2.0 Expo coming up, you are going to want to use this discount code.

Registration Promo code: obama22 = 44% discount.

It works! I just did a faux registration with it and the full conference pass @ $1,395 was chopped to $781.20.

Not sure how long it will work (meaning time or # of uses), but get on it fast if you want to save some big bucks :)

I'm in the midst of creating a couple of websites and was just wondering what is the "new" standard for screen resolutions.

I do remember a while back that the holy grail of screen resolutions was 800x600. Please please please tell me this has gone the way of the 8-track.

I'm thinking with the advent of cheap and powerful video cards, every up-to-date computer should be at minimum, 1024x768. (I'm hoping higher)

Has anyone looked at their stats program to see what your visitors screen resolution has been lately?

I'm not sure if anyone is aware, but I am a blackberry addict. I've posted about my glee about getting my grubby hands on a Verizon Curve. Ever since, I keep saying to myself, "how did I ever live without this?!"

Well, with my insatiable need to get more and more information about my loving handheld mobile device, I was looking for an aggregated site like ColdFusionBloggers.org but targeted toward Blackberry users.

Lo and behold...NADA! Haven't found a one! ::DING!!:: Light goes off. Why not use Mr. CFJedi's code and repurpose it??

After a few code tweaks and content changes, I've put together and launched....

BlackberryBloggers.org

Hosting this site with http://www.efree2net.com (and hoping they're a reliable host).

@Ray: When this site starts making money, you can bet I'll be removing one of your wishlist items :)