Archive for October, 2004
Table Rows Hide and Seek
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately developing a web application which does some nifty javascript and CSS tricks. One of them is inline editing of rows of tabular data; the user selects a row and the items within it change to editable input fields. Behind the scenes this is done by having two [...]
ClearType
If you’re using XP, Microsoft has a ClearType site that lets you turn ClearType (their font display technology) on and off, and tune the settings (IE only). The difference it makes on an LCD screen is really amazing, though the results on a standard CRT monitor aren’t nearly as good. Most installations [...]
Quickies
A cool article from DevX by Scott Scriven who shows you how to roll a database wrapper in Python that lets you make pythonic database calls.
Enthought Edition Python for Windows, a distribution which includes a lot of useful libraries like PIL, ZODB, and Gadfly. This looks quite new.
Over the weekend I finally tweaked my css [...]
Goodbye Plink
It looks like Plink has been unplugged. I think it’s a real shame; for those who hadn’t seen it, Plink was a cool FOAF search engine and aggregator that presented relationships and images from FOAF files.
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MySQL Forever
Well, possibly not forever, but for the foreseeable future, where the choice of database is mine to make.
As part of the redevelopment of rubhub, one of the things I’ve been doing is porting the existing database to MSSQL. I made the decision to go with MSSQL initally because it was 1) available to me, and [...]