April, 2010


23
Apr 10

Image of the Year

Just found this great image of the protests in Thailand from a few months ago.


23
Apr 10

Add A Number To Another Number In JavaScript

Always use jQuery.

Downvote for not enough jQuery.


22
Apr 10

Hackers Retaliate Against Group That Threatened South Park Creators

Must’ve been an easy target. I’d put a link down, but I don’t want to create an unwarranted distraction for the NSA. You can try the link in the address bar in the image.


22
Apr 10

kops and klans « the streets are calling

This is some of the best reportage I’ve seen on the recent white supremacists rally downtown.

The LAPD look thrilled.

kops and klans « the streets are calling.


22
Apr 10

Shy Dolphins of the Amazon

via telegraph.co.uk


21
Apr 10

WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code

White House contributes to Drupal CMS.

By releasing some of our code, we get the benefit of more people reviewing and improving it. In fact, the majority of the code for WhiteHouse.gov is already open source as part of the Drupal project.

via WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code | The White House.


20
Apr 10

Kogi BBQ in the Rain

image

Half an hour of waiting for the truck to open resulted in this line.


20
Apr 10

Fix for IE Choking on __flash__removeCallback

I’ve been getting a Flash issue in IE. The problem only appeared in IE (all versions) and not in any of the other browsers. I’m not sure if this is because Microsoft’s jScript engine is super-compliant or super-buggy. But we figured out what the problem was.

The issue we were having dealt with the HTML we used to instantiate the Flash file as an object in the DOM. We wrap an embed element in an object element, becuase IE likes one and most other broswers like the other.

The fix was simple. Without getting into too much detail, just make sure that your object and embed tags have unique and valid id attributes. There is some hidden JavaScript that the Flash player calls and if you don’t have these attributes IE chokes when it tries to call these “secret” JavaScript libraries.