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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 [...]

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 [...]

On MotorsportReg.com, we store vehicle numbers as a string because every so often someone has a letter as part of their number. The problem with storing numbers as strings is that they sort poorly. Instead of “1, 2, 3… 10, 20, 30…” you are presented with “1, 10, 2, 20, 3, 30…”. [...]

What a nightmare. My longtime mail server lost power at the colo facility about a month ago and when it came back up, it only recognized one processor. It’s been bloody slow since so this weekend I went in with an extra gig of ram and two servers worth of spare parts to [...]

The MySQL full-text engine is pretty impressive. It’s been around for a long time (since late 3.x versions) but I haven’t had the need to use it until a small project I was working on recently for a consulting customer. The default behavior is to use an algorithm to statistically determine the [...]

I’m doing a bit of consulting for a local health services organization. The environment is the predictable “LAMP” stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. I’m about a half day into writing the PHP and remembering all of the reasons why I use ColdFusion: you have to roll your own solutions (or find somebody [...]

I just got myself a new machine to use as a dedicated database server for MotorsportReg.com. I run Postgres and wanted to figure out the fastest configuration for this machine (running a fresh install of CentOS 4.2 with non-critical daemons turned off). I ran the tests and have uploaded the results in HTML [...]

Since ColdFusion was rewritten in Java beginning with MX, the useful error messages have become a quagmire of stack traces. Here’s one such example while I was trying to instantiate a CFC inside of another CFC. The error I received is:
The system has attempted to use an undefined value, which usually indicates a programming [...]

Rather belatedly I’m posting my slides and accompanying CSS Zen Garden examples from my presentation at the Integated Media Assocation 2005 Conference. I shared a session titled Advanced Site Design with Michael Yoch of NPR.org and Frank Hamilton of WAMU in Washington DC. Kudos to the IMA for a very smoothly run show [...]