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[Jul. 12th, 2009|07:45 pm] |
- [22:57] <kemayo> Another long day. Spent it all with the in-laws at a party. Delicious ribs. #
- [23:41] <kemayo> In positive development for Kellie, watching me give her a backrub put the baby to sleep. #
- [11:24] <kemayo> Day 3 in Missouri: massive thunderstorm. Not waking up Danielle, thankfully. #
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| A jQuery quirk that bit me |
[Jul. 3rd, 2009|03:58 pm] |
deviantART just upgraded to jQuery 1.3, and we found an undocumented jQuery change that broke some things.
The behavior of the :enabled selector changed. Before it selected all enabled form elements, now it selects all enabled and non-hidden form elements. This bit us, because we were using jQuery to assemble some form elements to submit over xmlhttprequest... and now some hidden fields weren't getting included.
This means that if you were using :enabled, you now need to use :not(:disabled) to get the old behavior.
A bit of googling turned up that this is a deliberate change, to match the behavior of querySelectorAll in browsers that have implemented it. I'd disagree with the phrasing John Resig used, "more standards compliant", since "enabled" has a specific meaning in the standards.
This should really have been in the release notes...
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| Moving thoughts |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|03:29 pm] |
Spurred on by certain responses to Kellie's recent post about moving, we've been thinking about the question "why do you want to move, anyway?"
We're not tied to Southern California. We have some friends here, but they're mostly so far away from us that moving across the country wouldn't particularly influence how often we see 'em. This'd be more of a factor if we were deeply social people who went out with friends all the time... but we're not.
In fact, we have certain complaints about SoCal. We're sick of the smog -- it's really gross to know it's there. Now we have a baby, the California school system worries us. The region is aggressively pedestrian-unfriendly.
Cost of living down here is high. We could move back to St. Louis and live in a fancy apartment for about what we're paying here, with the option of moving to somewhere about equivalent to our current place for significantly less if we didn't like downtown loft living.
We find that we miss green things. SoCal is pretty much a desert, after all.
Related to that, SoCal winters are nice and warm, but the summers are painful. Also, I miss proper cold weather. |
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[Jun. 30th, 2009|07:45 pm] |
- [23:40] <kemayo> Kellie is looking at apartments in St. Louis. I keep hearing quasi-sexual moans of pleasure. >_> #
- [23:48] <kemayo> Though, looking at this place, I can sympathize with her viewpoint. http://bit.ly/7tLF8 #
- [00:37] <broccoman> @kemayo You two are moving back there? #
- [00:57] <kemayo> @broccoman Don't know - it's more that we've been looking at places we might move, and noticed that St. Louis is still an attractive value. #
- [15:49] <JohnBooty> I know the cool kids are using git, but TortoiseSVN isn't so bad. Yes, totally different league. #
- [17:11] <kemayo> @JohnBooty There's TortoiseGIT now. :D #
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| Windows 7 |
[Jun. 18th, 2009|11:15 am] |
I installed the Windows 7 RC last night. Haven't really had much time to use it yet.
My first impression was that the installer was horribly unpolished. Pretty much entirely because it paused for 2-3 minutes at a couple of early points with no progress indicators -- I couldn't tell if it had crashed or was just thinking really hard about the next step.
Obvious difference from Ubuntu is that it comes with no useful software, and I have to go download the things I'll be using. This really is one of those areas where Linux wins.
Sound works out of the box, and I feel confident that it will keep on working. This is an area where Ubuntu has recently decided to start failing, which is why it's even worth mentioning.
UAC is annoying still, but I think it does happen a bit less than it did in Vista. I still might turn it off. Depends on how much trouble I have once I'm out of the setting-things-up phase.
The new taskbar with its pinned applications definitely seems like they decided to copy the OSX dock. It feels sort of awkward right now, but I'm going to give it some time to get used to it.
We shall see. |
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| Windows |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|11:38 pm] |
As got tweeted earlier, I found when I booted into Windows XP earlier tonight for the first time in over a year, that I kind of miss it.
Somehow, it feels... smoother than the Gnome desktop. I think, as much as anything, that's because my Windows usage was heavily centered around using the Run dialog to navigate everything. I never remember about alt-F2 popping up the Gnome equivalent, because it's massively less convenient than splat-r. (And the gnome keybindings editor doesn't let you bind things to the windows/splat key, which is pretty dumb.)
With that and the difficulty I've had trying to use Steam on Linux lately, it's tempting me towards trying out Windows 7. |
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