Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

ColdFusion incompatible with XFN?

ColdFusion has a problem dealing with XFN. When using ColdFusion client side validation invoked by <cfinput required=”yes” />. ColdFusion should generate JavaScript to validate the form on submission. This typically should be between in the <head /> somewhere. When using the profile attribute of the head tag <head profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″ > [...]

Woke up this morning

Woke up this morning, went to my Enterprise Computing class (an amusingly basic programming class I was encouraged to take because it’s VisualBasic .NET), to do this silly problem where using a loop calculate how long it would take to pay for payment making wage per hour:

VB.net [Show Styled Code]:

Private [...]

America’s Most Eligible Bachelor

According to this I’m potentially America’s Most Eligible Bachelor. I’m as nerdy as it gets. I’m writing this while taking a break from something that I was really enjoying: debugging a web app! Can you get any more nerdy?
Apparently that article hasn’t quite gotten around yet.

Project Naming

It’s long been a tradition to name products, revisions, and milestones. We’ve all done it. We all still do it. Sometimes the names are rather boring “Longhorn”, sometimes a bit more creative. Looking at the Firefox roadmap tonight I noticed ben recently updated it so that Deer Park 1.1 alpha is [...]

I’m a geek

If your reading this blog, you already know that. Well, this blog post gave me a really good laugh [hat tip Photo Matt]. It describes me so well. I don’t have that many geeky shirts though as my Firefox shirt is about the only one decent enough to wear (though if you [...]

A Boring Day

Spent most of the afternoon working on my Principles of System Design Project (crossing another off the todo list).
Also hacked up a really cool toy that you will see hopefully in the next couple of days.
Next up is a History of American Art paper.

Paul Graham on College

Paul Graham, whose writing I greatly admire wrote an excellent bit on College recently. Being a college student myself, I found this to be by far the most interesting thing he’s ever written (and there’s quite a bit of competition there). A few things he wrote stick out in my mind:

The way to [...]

In memoriam, Jef Raskin

I noticed this on Google this evening.
He definitely had an impact on my life, and we never even met. If it wasn’t for the Macintosh, I doubt I’d ever have gotten into computing, never which means looked at IT as a career, and never gotten into hacking Mozilla, and perhaps not even web development. [...]

Zen of CSS Design

Zen of CSS Design is out. I think I’ve got to pickup a copy of that book. For now just added to the wishlist. Looks rather good. David Shea is rather brilliant. I’m curious if anyone has seen it yet (and what they think of it).

Coding with Timezones

I’ve got a bit of a complex question here for all you professional web developers:
Environment
Website targeting international users in all 24 timezones. Website based in US.
Problem Summary
How do you handle timezones correctly? What is the best strategy?
Problem Expanded
The particular problem I see is Daylight savings. I’ve seen several sites ask it based [...]