Archive for January, 2008
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Ant again. We had a file with Oracle PL/SQL statements using declare, begin and end. When using the sql task in Ant, it complained about reaching end-of-file on the line with "declare". The problem is that Ant assumes that one line is one SQL statement, but it's not that simple ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
In order to celebrate I'm a little tempted to start building something with my already old LEGO Mindstorms, or even buy something new, but I will attend to other projects today!
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
The Project will allow users to create and edit something I call "Things" in this article. One feature that is quite high on the priority list is to be able to print Things. I found the article “Print this page” with Ruby on Rails but I wanted a separate page ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Nothing on Trolltech's site yet, but Nokia has a press release titled Nokia to acquire Trolltech to accelerate software strategy. What will KDE say?
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
I found a suitable initial web design for The Project at Open Source Web Design. That's a really great site!
Now I'm learning about layouts in Ruby on Rails. As suggested in the Midnight Oil blog (Beds are burning?) article SimpleSidebar - If you have sidebars, you need this plugin ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
In an XSLT script I didn't use <xsl:text> inside of <xsl:message>. It worked fine in xsltproc, but the Java XSLT implementation we use complained. What was wrong then? The text in an <xsl:message> was not inside an <xsl:text> element.
Bad code:
<xsl:message>Don't do like this</xsl:message>
Good code:
<xsl:message><xsl:text>Do like this</xsl:text></xsl:message>
To avoid making the same ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Canon has announced EOS 450D. It has a 12 megapixel sensor, live view in the LCD display and now uses SD/SDHC storage instead of CF. I'll stick to my EOS 350D for now though. I don't even use it every week.
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
The page HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 (W3C Working Draft 22 January 2008) contains a long list of changes. The removal of frames was probably to be expected. Multiple elements and many attributes that only have a presentational function in HTML 4 are removed. There are also some elements ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
During the afternoon today I attended the first part of a mostly in-house course Scrum for team members led by Arne Åhlander. I'll hopefully write more about it later, but now I'm going to work on The Project. Before I forget; I was recommended Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting at ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
I try to avoid telling myself that I don't have time for this or that. The truth is that it comes down to how I prioritize those things. I naturally try to put family and work first, but I also make room for my own projects and ideas. Some projects ...
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