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- Ethan Poole
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- Thu 21 Aug 2008 at 11:41
When I code a webpage, I always fret about making sure that my markup is as semantic and simple as possible. Generally, creating a semantic webpage is easy, but I have always found coding semantic HTML forms to be difficult. In the web development world, there are a few excepted formats for semantic HTML forms: tables, <div>'s, paragraphs, ordered lists, and definition lists. The challenge is that each form has its own pros and cons in relation to semantics.
Foremost, the <div> element simply provides no semantic clarity for f…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Tue 12 Aug 2008 at 15:03
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Awhile ago, I came upon the website MiniAjax.com, a website with a nice collection of downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts. The website is just a pretty collection of links to other tutorials and scripts, but all the scripts they have found work really well. You can find downloadable scripts for all the cool things that people use JavaScript for nowadays, such as:
Star rating bar
Dragable boxes
Modal windows
Pie charts
Field validation
Thumbnail viewer
Take a look at MiniAjax.com as some of the scripts are pretty useful. It…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Fri 8 Aug 2008 at 14:23
I setup my old iMac for my mom up at her business, which required transferring files and settings from her old PC. Most of the files transfered easily, especially since she already was using iTunes. Transferring the music, the pictures, and the documents was done easily over ethernet, but transferring all of her emails proved to be the most difficult task. Basically, there is no easy way to transfer emails from Outlook 2003 to Mail.
Apple does not include an importer to import Outlook mailboxes, despite Outlook's popularity on Windows. W…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Wed 6 Aug 2008 at 9:40
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When I got my new Macbook, I knew that I wanted to setup a better system to control all of the source code on my computer. I have websites and applications for clients, Lowter, etc. Basically, I have a lot of code that was only loosely organised on my old iMac. On my iMac, I had everything organised nicely into folders, but that was about it. I had CVS setup, as it was built into OSX Tiger, but I did not make much use of it because it was too complex.
I found out that SVN is built into OSX Leopard, rather than CVS. I really don't want t…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Mon 4 Aug 2008 at 8:34
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A few days ago there were posts all over the blogosphere about the new Cuil (pronounced "cool") search engine that was suppose to "take down" Google. Apparently, Cuil was founded by an old Google engineer with knowledge about their search algorithm and Cuil was going to produce better search results than Google. It took about three hours for everyone to figure out how much Cuil sucks. The search results are not even close to relevant, especially the random images they somehow associate with the search results. When I searched for "Ethan…
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