Category Archives: tech

In the sidebar here is linkto, a thing I wrote a while ago to clean up pasted links. I’ve written a new version that pops up in any page, puts the currently selected text (if any) into the input area, … Continue reading →

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C++ doesn’t have real pretty introspection capabilities yet, so sometimes you’re stuck rolling your own stuff that kinda sucks. For example, here’s the most convenient method I was able to find to do runtime iteration of all the classes that … Continue reading →

No idea what the heck happened to Visual Studio .NET 2003. Things were fine last week, now undo and redo are broken. They’re disabled on the menu and the hotkeys don’t have any effect. Happens on all projects. Anybody have … Continue reading →

I’ve been doing some python webdev using this new web.py toolkit. It’s not bad, but I my host uses apache and apache + fastcgi (for now) means suck. So instead, we used SCGI: Install mod_scgi into apache Startup your web.py … Continue reading →

What’s a microformat? Jesus, good luck figuring out from microformats.org. That’s the most useless description of a technology I’ve ever seen. What is a microformat really? It’s a way of embedding structural information in the id and class attributes of … Continue reading →

S5: Simple Standards-based Slide Show System Basically, write some markup, apply a stylesheet, and you have a presentation in a box. I also added a Present This bookmarklet that opens the current page in a full page frame with no … Continue reading →

Maybe you’ve noted the new poll in the sidebar. I’ll replicate the question here for your perusal. Ok, let’s say you logged into a web service via XML, and one of the responses back was an integer for a bitfield … Continue reading →