John Tokash

Entries from November 2006

Working with the Dojo Javascript Library – First Impressions

November 28, 2006 · 2 Comments

I’ve been working with Dojo on a low priority project for the past several days. Here are my thoughts so far:

  • This discussion list archive is extremely helpful.
  • The tests are often more useful than the documentation.
  • Dojo.Select is a very cool alternative to the HTML version, but I can’t find a way to set it’s value programmatically if the options are coming from a dataURL AND the option text is different than the option values.
  • Whenever you have a problem recreating something you saw in an example, run that example against the version of dojo you are using. It MAY be that the latest dojo code is not compatible with the code you saw in the example.
  • The dojo blog is fairly active.
  • I’m having a lot of trouble with FormBind (the dojo AJAX mechanism used to post forms to the server), but I’m sure I’ll work it out. It probably has something to do with the fact that I have many forms on the page, not just one. UPDATE: Solved my issue and logged a bug about it (FormBind gives no feedback if the form’s action url is a 404.).

Categories: Coding

Opera Mini – Now with a Feed Aggregator

November 28, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Looks great! I upgraded the version on my phone and it kept my bookmarks (whew!). There doesn’t seem to be a way to import your feeds from an opml file, so that’s a bummer. More details from Arve.

Categories: Browsers · RSS

Cooper (3 years old) on drums…. Amazing!

November 21, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Categories: Music

links for 2006-11-18

November 17, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Categories: Links

PhotoSynth is amazing

November 12, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Just downloaded PhotoSynth after watching Robert’s video on the subject. PhotoSynth stitches hundreds of photos together to build a 3D representation of a place. You can move around inside that space with your mouse and zoom in on individual photos to get a really high res view. I remember seeing something like this a few years back, but it didn’t give you access to the original photos in the way this does. Very, very cool. I can’t wait till you can create your own collections. I don’t care that it takes days of cpu time.

Categories: Microsoft

Battlefield 2142 – Player Profiles. Too much information?

November 12, 2006 · Leave a Comment

EA just launched a portal for viewing your and other players’ Battlefield 2142 stats (including unlocks and rank). Stats for my soldier, BadWolfOne, can be seen at this link. Currently, BadWolfOne is a Master Seargent Gold. I unlocked both recon trees, most of general and I have 2 unused unlocks.

The progress section is a little over the top, though. There, graphs will show you that my ‘kills per minute’ and ‘deaths per minute’ are both climbing at the same rate. Navigating the 20+ pages of the details section will show you that my preferred weapon is the Lambert Carbine.

All this information is great for learning from your competition, but where is the website badge made popular by XBoxLive so I can have my stats in a little box on my blog?

Update: On a side note, the Total Battlefield 2142 forums are full of tons of useful information. This ‘little secrets’ thread, for instance.

Categories: Games

links for 2006-11-07

November 6, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Categories: Links

links for 2006-11-06

November 5, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Categories: Links

Catching up after a busy October!

November 3, 2006 · 2 Comments

October has been busy. I’ve kept a list of things to write about, but there hasn’t been much time to do so. Rather than keep the list to myself, here’s a quick preview of each topic.

  • At Homestead, we suffered a major outage. Websites were still available, but customers couldn’t edit for many hours. It was by far the worst outage we’ve had. And we’re really sorry! Justin has several informative posts on the topic, including this one. Thanks to all of our customers for understanding and thanks to everyone I work with for the incredible teamwork involved in getting things back in order (especially you, Sangeeta!).
  • My new computer is still performing well. Battlefield 2142 is great!
  • The Logitech MX Revolution mouse I bought this month is great, but I’m unhappy that the thumbwheel isn’t in any way an analog mechanism.
  • A few of us were on a business trip this weekend. I like my LG CU320 phone in general, but I’m getting really annoyed with it’s limited email capabilities.
  • My sister and brother in law just adopted a child named Zander from Korea. I can’t wait to meet him!
  • My son loves the Coldplay episode of Austin City Limits.

Categories: Random