By barneyb on April 6, 2006
If you've ever drawn a graph (manually or with a computer), you know that you have to pick upper and lower bounds for the x and y axes based on the data points you're graphing. Usually, this is a relatively simple matter, but, at least for me, it's proven to be a difficult problem to [...]
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By barneyb on April 5, 2006
Prototype is JavaScript library, of a similar nature to Neuromancer, that I've been using of late. It's got some really cool features that Neuromancer doesn't have (particularly when extended by Script.aculo.us), but it's not a complete replacement. For example, no remoting support. While working with it, I noticed that all POSTs were sent as urlencoded [...]
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By barneyb on April 5, 2006
I was doing some prototyping today, and wanted to save four individual text buffers as a tabbed document. More specifically, I wanted to save the four buffers as a single file with four sections, and when reopened, have the four sections load into four separate buffers (tabs) in the editor.
Excel has had this feature for [...]
Posted in personal
By barneyb on April 5, 2006
While working on my CFUG preso for this month, I found another bug: dates weren't handled properly coming back from web service calls. So I added support for them. Patch file for js/io/RemoteObject.js below, or you can get the update and supporting test scripts from Subversion.
Index: RemoteObject.js
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— RemoteObject.js (revision 10)
+++ RemoteObject.js [...]
Posted in neuromancer
By barneyb on April 4, 2006
Currently my blog (along with my wife's, my sister's, and my sister-in-law's), runs on a custom amalgamation of technologies: MovableType in a 'service' role, custom JSP frontend, custom CFML admin area.
As happens to nearly every small personal project that evolves over several years, the piecemeal nature of the system is starting to be a burden. [...]
Posted in meta
By barneyb on April 3, 2006
A while back I need to do a standard form POST via Neuromancer, so I'd added a doFormPostRequest method to the JSRemote object. I just needed it again, and for whatever reason, it hadn't made it's way into the core distribution. So I merged my modded sources in (I love version control ; )), and [...]
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By barneyb on April 3, 2006
I've been using Subversion for a while now. Not sure exactly how long, but about a year, I'd guess. Before that it was CVS for a number of years. I have to say, first of all, if you're not using version control, start. It's worth a bajillion times more than the few hours it'll take [...]
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