Archive for 2006/07

I’ve been reading the Dojo-interest mailing list for about two weeks and this quandry, or some variation, has come up 5 times already:
I have a body onload and now Dojo doesn’t work!
In my application, I had some pages with body onLoad specified. Dojo, however, attaches itself behind the scenes to this for its internal [...]

Jennifer and I ate at Bacar for the first time on Brannan Street in San Francisco’s SOMA district on Friday night. The restaurant is famous for their giant wine list – something like 38 pages of options. It’s only about 3 blocks from my house so we walked. My impression from the [...]

MotorsportReg.com retrieves feeds of events from various sources, typically in CSV. These are usually straight dumps from a database and we have no control over the output. I received a bug the other day that our RSS feed wasn’t validating as UTF-8 and this was breaking many feed readers.
I checked it out and [...]

In my application, we have a session with a 60 minute timeout. Organizers sometimes execute long running tasks or they leave their computer in the middle of something and return only to find out on the next submit (sometimes after accomplishing much work) that they are prompted for a username and password again. [...]

As I wanted to minimize the number of files included at runtime in my prior piece, I tried to narrow down my dojo.require() statements. Do this after you have done cross-browser testing!
In including only dojo.event.connect, Firefox was running beautifully. I tried in IE6 and all of a sudden the event objects being returned [...]

Having received my grandmother’s birth certificate after a single email to a public official (gratis, no less), now I need to certify it with an official apostille. Here, you might get the document from the county recorder and the apostille from the Secretary of State. I sent an email to the original Standesamt [...]

Hey, random header images! If you consider one of two “random”. The BMW was my first racecar. The Miata is my current and second racecar which is for sale.

I downloaded the Dojo Toolkit some time ago but the lack of documentation stalled my progress. For our version 3.2, there are a number of key improvements we want to make using DHTML and Ajax so it’s time to dive in head-first. We are not building a “Web 2.0″ app; we’re adding fancier [...]

Interesting consulting inquiry today. I wrote a pretty sophisticated slide rendering application in Flash MX that used DENG along with some custom code to basically create xml-powered Powerpoint for a training company. They author XML with embedded HTML (inside of a CDATA) which the rendering engine turns into animated slides with audio, video [...]

In rebuilding our mail server last month, I added Courier’s IMAP server enabling us to keep mail on the server instead of always downloading it. You might want to do this if you access your email with multiple devices and you want to see all your emails regardless of whether you connect via Thunderbird, [...]