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Holy Cock Pants, Batman!

barneyb — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:33:17 +0000

So after getting my dose of bagpipes for the evening, I was playing on Kim's computer and discovered there is exactly one page in Google's index containing the phrase ""holy cock pants, batman!"

Aside from the obvious awesomeness of the phrase, I was rather surprised to find a relatively short phrase with exactly one instance in Google's index on my first try.

Unfortunately, by telling the story of my triumph I'm also ensuring no one else can ever experience the same triumph. Â It's sort of sad.

Wow Am I UGLY!!

barneyb — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:08:30 +0000

Yeah, so apparently WordPress 2.9 totally broke K2.Â My apologies for the horrific appearance of the site, though I'm delighted to say the admin area still looks awesome!Â Or something.Â I'll get it fixed here shortly, I promise….

UPDATE: apparently WordPress not only deprecated `attribute_escape`, they also changed it's functionality (despite it's widespread use in the app) to no longer correctly process arrays.Â I don't know.Â In any case, replacing a couple instances of it within K2 with an `array_map` application of `esc_attr` fixed it.Â The actual problem was that the BODY classes weren't being correctly generated, thereby throwing off all the CSS selectors.

UPDATE 2: I've been wanting to get away from K2 for a while.Â It was awesome, but now it's kind of broken.Â And upgrading to 1.0.3 left me with all kinds of weirdness.Â So I kicked it to the curb, and am going to be starting afresh.Â Should be good.

UPDATE 3: So I've obviously reskinned.Â For an hour of hakcing a previously-unknown theme's CSS I'm pretty happy, but definitely still pretty rough around the edges.Â But it's good enough, so now it's time for dinner.

Subclipse 1.6's AWESOME New Commit Dialog

barneyb — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:48:12 +0000

I just upgrade to Subclipse 1.6 and it has an awesome new feature: diffs right in the commit dialog.Â It seemed a common use case for myself that when it came time to commit, I'd open my commit dialog and cycle through the files writing my commit message in Kate because I couldn't type while looking at the diffs.Â Then I'd paste the message into the commit dialog and hit OK.Â With the 1.6 release you can now see your commits right next to your message, and switch back and forth directly.Â Kick ASS!

Irish Tunes means Irish Whiskey

barneyb — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:04:28 +0000

At least according to Pandora.Â I've not noticed music-tuned ads before, so maybe it's just a coincidence, but interesting none the less.Â Or I'm just drunk and wishing I'd gone to Lacuna Coil and Disturbed with certain other CF guys.

Don't Forget to Bounce Sendmail

barneyb — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:00:57 +0000

When you change the hostname of your computer, you need to do two things: add a local alias to Sendmail's config and restart sendmail.Â I'm pretty sure I've forgotten step two every time I've set up a new box, and my new server was no exception.Â Fortunately, I finally remembered that that was the problem this morning, and now it's forwarding local mail like a champ.

Watch Your Column Types

barneyb — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:03:30 +0000

I've been bit by this twice in the past few months: comparing database columns that aren't the same type is really really expensive.Â If you've only got a few rows, no big deal, but if you've got a few hundred thousand (or a few tens of millions) it makes a huge difference.Â And varchar is NOT the same as nvarchar on SQL Server.

OBD is On The Ball

barneyb — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:24:34 +0000

Both of the bugs I found in Open BlueDragon while working on CFGroovy have been fixed.Â Yay for being on the ball.Â The bugs were that CFDIRECTORY didn't recurse if you used a filter and that numberFormat didn't accept java.math.BigDecimal as a valid number.

Open Pandora

barneyb — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:24:29 +0000

Based on several suggestions after my last post, I gave OpenPandora another try.Â So far it's been pretty stable and handles the new player layout correctly.Â Nice to have my keyboard shortcuts back, though it does occasionally throw up "do you want to debug this error" dialogs (from Visual Studio, I'm guessing?).Â But working well enough to keep at it for now.

Pandora Bookmarklet

barneyb — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:10:49 +0000

Ever since Pandora prevented accessing the miniplayer directly a few months ago, I've been using a little bookmarklet to fake it.Â Set http://pandora.com/ as my IE homepage (about the only thing I use IE for) and put the bookmarklet in my links bar to click immediately after launch.Â Net result: a perfectly sized window, hiding all the non-player crap.

javascript:window.resizeTo(641,416);window.scrollTo(58,130);

Awesomest Code Ever

barneyb — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:03:09 +0000

I found this uncommitted change to a file on one of our shared dev servers today:

I don't even know where to start…