Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Archive for May 2005
Playground: Mozilla style sidebar
Here’s a little Mozilla styled sidebar. It does auto-hiding (move the mouse cursor over it and then off) and has multiple sidebars built in to a single sidebar. Not tested for IE. Sidebar II – The Revenge
Python documentation
I’ve been doing some Python programming for the last couple of days. Now, Python is a pretty cool language, but its main problem is, in my oppinion at least, the absolutely terrible documentation. I can’t find anything in there. Thankfully, there’s always the Python Quick Reference (v2.4, v2.3) and the alternative Python Reference (It’s a […]
Learn XUL
XUL is an XML dialect that describes user interfaces and it is what Mozilla and Firefox are built upon. You can use XUL to build an interface and then use Javascript to control the application. There’s a very interesting introduction to XUL over at DevShed An Introduction to XUL, Part 1 An Introduction to XUL, […]
Domain back up
www.electricmonk.nl has been down for the last couple of days. Since I run this server on my cable internet connection, I sometimes get a change of IP. This time I got three on a single day, which was last friday. Unfortunatelly, I can’t change the DNS records during the weekend, since the office where I […]
Playground: Table column drag’n’drop resize
I write web applications at my work and in them I frequently make use of tables displaying information. Unfortunatelly, everybody always keeps asking ‘Can you increase the size of this or that limited table column?’. Normally, we use tooltips to display contents that has been cut off, but that often requires some users to mouse-over […]
Network topology
Removed the network topology from the Miscellaneous page. It didn’t work in the new layout.
MSN Migration
When my previous domainname ‘nihilist.nl’ expired, some company immediatelly aquired it and started hosting a porn site on there. They do this so they can get the visitors that come to the domain for the old site for free without having to advertise. Since my old MSN account still was at nihilist.nl, namely msn@nihilist.nl, I […]
Dvorak at it again…
NOTE: John C. Dvorak is NOT the inventor of the Dvorak keyboard layout. That would be giving the guy to much credit. In his latest brainspasm misfit, which was accidentally mistaken for an article by PCMagazine.com, John C. Dvorak goes at it again. More ludicrous nonsense by Dvorak! Read all about it! This time Dvorak […]
Joel On Software linkdump
I regularly read Joel On Software because Joel is somebody who, for a change, has a brain of his own and who isn’t afraid to bitch on certain programming conventions even if the rest of the world thinks they’re the Ultimate Solution. I usually tend to agree with Joel. This time he explains how coding […]
Firefox Fuckups
Watch me mother[CENSORED], here we go again.. Latest Firefox fuckups: Two major security holes that, in combination, allow remote execution of code, which is nasty to the max. A bug in the extension updater caused Flashblock extension to break during update, which might be the cause of the following problems. Every time I start Firefox […]
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