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Archive for October, 2003

DIV vs. Table

Friday, October 31st, 2003

There’s a fantastic presentation from an Adobe person on transitioning from tables to divs. Also, for all those cross-browser problems, and even for reference and lurnin’, I recently came across QuirksMode.org: chock full of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and quite a bit of interesting commentary and practical howto’s on each.
Update: the links now work.

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Potential Econobonics

Thursday, October 30th, 2003

Managerialized - to have had one’s mind changed to think more like a “manager” and less like a “worker”, esp. Ignoring “realistic” technical limitations and problems E.g., “Ever since Smitherson got promoted to EVP of Pants, he thinks we can churn out 30 pairs of jeans by hand an hour. He’s been severely managerialized.”

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Creating Unicode Characters from Hex Codes in Windows

Thursday, October 30th, 2003

I’ve long wanted a simple way to go from Unicode hex values to actual characters, mostly so I can test out using non-English characters in my code. Thanks to fontboard — a great source for MS-Windows i18n tips and howtos — I finally have any easy way: WordPad.
If you type in the hex (or “code […]

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Morning Coffee

Thursday, October 30th, 2003

A note on drag-and-drop usability:

The most surprising result that CA discovered was that drag-and-drop is not as intuitive as we all think it is. Of course, this may be fine when it comes to IT developers and those that are used to IT in general, but it turns out that many users are not as […]

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JMX Remote 1.0

Thursday, October 30th, 2003

The
JMX Remote API is in Final Release.

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