Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Play Now
Today is very special. After 150 hours of hard work and sleepless nights, I have released Stock Rider, a flash-based game where you ski real market data.
This is my first big Flash piece and I am so happy with the results. It uses Box2D for Flash as ...
Posted in Flash, Gaming, Programming, Sports, Stocks, Web Development | 4 Comments »
Monday, October 20th, 2008
Me too.
While writing a JavaScript countdown timer the other day I ran into a very peculiar issue. Every time I refreshed the page, the countdown had 0 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds remaining, regardless of the current time, but it had the correct number of days.
To set the ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
The advent of YouTube, Hulu, Netflix's watch instantly feature, torrents, and offsite/online backup has made good bandwidth crucial to an enjoyable experience. The first time my wife got me killed by hogging the bandwidth while I was playing World of Warcraft I immediately cranked up the DD-WRT control panel ...
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
I decided to give Google Chrome another chance today, hoping there would be an update to fix the scrolling issue I previously discovered.
The following steps produce the following error message—if you can call it that.
Using Google Chrome, navigate to http://www.google.com/chrome/
Click "Download Google ...
Posted in Annoying, Bugs, Depressing, Google, IT, Programming, Software, Technology, Web Development | No Comments »
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
I was reading Life Hacker's Best of the Best today and came across Launchy, a Windows application launcher, so I decided to check it out. I run NoScript at work for security purposes so I was greeted with the following image.
And I quote: "This is where Ads would go, ...
Posted in Ads, Humor, IT, JavaScript, Programming, Quotes, Software, Web Development | No Comments »
Monday, September 8th, 2008
After much enthusiasm from the geeks at work about Google's new browser, Chrome, I decided to give it a shot. So far I'm impressed and depressed. Chrome's speed is almost unrivaled. Unfortunately, one of the most important features to me, scrolling, does not work properly.
I have a ...
Posted in Annoying, Bugs, Depressing, Google, IT, Reviews, Ridiculous, Software, Web Development | 11 Comments »
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
So was I. Luckily there is a handy configuration option that tells TinyMCE to leave your code alone:
verify_html : false
The resulting code should look something like this:
tinyMCE.init({
theme: "advanced",
mode: "exact",
elements: "html",
theme_advanced_toolbar_location: "top",
verify_html: false
});
Happy coding!
Source
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Web services are the coolest technology I know of that ends up turning everyone off. I don’t know about you, but when I go to a lecture on Web services, invariably tons of acronyms come out, like Representational State Transfer (REST), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Remote Procedure Call (RPC), SOAP, ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
A recent vulnerability has been discovered in a popular web-content delivery program, Adobe Flash, which could potentially target World of Warcraft players and their accounts while they browse websites. The newest available version of Adobe Flash, version 9.0.124.0, does not contain this vulnerability and we recommend that everyone upgrade ...
Posted in Depressing, Flash, IT, Programming, Security, Software, Technology, Web Development | No Comments »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
So I had a strange urge the other day to buy a domain and came up with SarcasticPenguin.com. Now I'm asking you to tell me what I should put on the site in the comments. The poster of the best suggestion (selected June 30, 2008) will receive a ...
Posted in Animals, DIY, Entertainment, Programming, Web Development | No Comments »
