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Browsing Posts published in July, 2006

A free 10-week “AJAX Programming” online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX. In this 10-week course, students learn basic concept of AJAX as well as how to use various AJAX frameworks and [...]

CSS and Opera 9 issue

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I am trying my hardest to use CSS instead of tables for peoplearray.com. But since every browser gets to interpret CSS and “standards” in their own way, I (and all web designers/developers alike) get to hack up our CSS files to make our pages look the same in most of the major browsers. Here is [...]

So what?!  How can you say that?  I’ll be there with my Alex Smith jersey on, sitting in a sea of Rams fans, getting pissed off at my loud ass.  The game is in St. Louis (which is exactly 5 hours away, according to google maps).  I am not going alone, oh no!; this trip [...]

Vacation

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My vacation starts in 52 days!  We booked our cruise a while ago and last night we used our rewards points to “purchase” our plane tickets to Boston.  50,000 rewards points at $1 a point and that equals….anyone?   $50,000 plane tickets!  I think we overpaid.  It’s amusing to me how that works out. But on [...]

Lightbox Gone Wild

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Has anybody used Lightbox Gone Wild? Anybody know how to resize the box to the size of whatever you are displaying in it? I’ve got this version of Lightbox (original here) being used for the “Edit Contact Information” feature of PeopleArray. As soon as I can get that implemented correctly, I’m going to use the [...]

I’m a fucking idiot. That is all. For those of you non-geeks and other that are but just don’t want to look at a stupid error, now’s you chance to stop reading. … Still here, GREAT! That’s stupendous. Once upon a time, your’s truly (me) was having a problem formatting the birthdays of a contact [...]