befog, befuddle, bemuse

Depth of Traversal

nobody@vox.com(Jesse P.) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:35:45 +0800

We can see that there are three main models: user, photoset, and photo. The models are interlinked with the following possibilities: photoset can link to { photo, user } photo can link to { photoset, user } user can link to { photoset, photo, us...

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Dataset collection with Flickr

nobody@vox.com(Jesse P.) — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:31:51 +0800

So Ive basically done the following for the past few days (since Wednesday): Enumerate all functions in flickr as a table. The webpages they provided was not useful for inter-function comparisons Trimmed down the api to just the functions I nee...

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Dynamically written JavaScript functions

nobody@vox.com(Jesse P.) — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:14:34 +0800

So Im working on this other project now and I am faced with the following situation: A server script renders an element's onclick handler as calling a function with an array as its parameter, e.g.

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Absolutely Relatively Fixed

nobody@vox.com(Jesse P.) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:02:57 +0800

Actually its not fixed yet. What i mean to say is: My entire system is a single page layout and hence the logical way of designing this is to layout my elements with position: fixed, i.e. fixed to the points on the screen and not the containing ...

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IE6 compatibility: Pruning your DOM tree with display: none;

nobody@vox.com(Jesse P.) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:31:56 +0800

Arrggh... Ive spent the past four hours fixing my standards-compliant layout to fit to IE6's needs. And from this ridiculous layout: All I have now is just: In other words, the top part is done. Im fixing the CSS by setting display: none to al...

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Running IE 6 alongside IE 7

nobody@vox.com(Jesse P.) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:46:31 +0800

So ive been trying to get hold of some working IE 5.5+ to test my system but lo and behold, despite many web statistics out there, everyone i know seems to be using IE 7. I can get access to IE6, but I will have to travel to the school library for...

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Javascript onKeyPress, onKeyDown, onKeyUp

nobody@vox.com(Jesse P.) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:28:20 +0800

A very good place to start if you want to capture keyboard events with JavaScript: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/keys.html Rule of thumb (i guess) is: Use keyDown or keyUp, not keyPress Use keyCode instead of charCode Use the link above and scro...

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Auto-Shrink Bug in IE

nobody@vox.com(Jesse P.) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:54:21 +0800

So Im trying to make my system (that works perfectly in Firefox and is almost perfect in Safari) to work for Internet Explorer (7 first and then Im going to tackle version 6). And im facing with this wierd shrinking problem. I have some divs that...

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Inline auto-completion in bash

nobody@vox.com(Jesse P.) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:42:41 +0800

Found a little neat setting for my .bashrc to do inline-autocompletion here: # make bash autocomplete with up arrow bind '"\e[A":history-search-backward' bind '"\e[B":history-search-forward' # make tab cycle through commands instead of listin...

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Global variables and scoping

nobody@vox.com(Jesse P.) — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:25:57 +0800

Honestly, I think the next time I do anything in javascript, ill start by writing a class. Scoping is very important. Since goodness knows when, Ive always started writing programs in javascript as functions and them any variable is defined outsid...

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