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My Dad's article on healthcare

nobody@vox.com(Miriam) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:53:27 -0700

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Ruby, Rails, Netbeans

nobody@vox.com(Miriam) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:36:45 -0700

In case anyone else is having the same problems I was setting up Ruby on Rails on Netbeans -

First there were two different installations of gems because OSX and Netbeans each came with one. There were issues with updating them and differentiating which was getting update. Netbeans wouldn't see the right one. There were issues with one not running as root and so not getting updated.

Netbeans wouldn't change the path to what it was using. Finally, after many hours of various people as well as myself working on it, the solution was to create the project on the command line and then to import it into Netbeans as a "new project from an existing source". (Sarah Allen found the solution - thank you Sarah!)

I am understating the amount of pain getting this set up took. At different times three separate engineers who were helping asked "Why do you want to use Netbeans?" By then I wanted to use it simply to understand what I was doing wrong and out of sheer stubbornness or something... I would still be struggling with it if not for so much super help! I am very grateful to everyone who helped me. I am very lucky to have so much support!

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If you don't pick the artichoke...

nobody@vox.com(Miriam) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:21:34 -0700

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Bachata + Bollywood mix, Aventura - Un Chi Chi

nobody@vox.com(Miriam) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:16:03 -0700

Aventura - Un Chi Chi

This song is about a little baby, which is what "chi chi" means in the Dominican Republic. (It means different things elsewhere... )

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Swaken Myths by Reuben Dunn, now at Amazon

nobody@vox.com(Miriam) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:59:59 -0700

SwakenMyths

Swaken myths

Reuben Dunn

★★★★★

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IE8 th bug

nobody@vox.com(Miriam) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:14:35 -0700

I found a bug with inheritance in IE8 table header element. The text-align doesn't get inherited from the table but has to be applied more specifically to the th element. Other browsers including IE6 and IE7 inherit the text-alignment from the table.

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Ornamental href question

nobody@vox.com(Miriam) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:01:19 -0700

I have a question about how to handle links which have a JavaScript action in the onclick but do not navigate to another page. This would be a link which toggles the display of something on the page, for example. I am wondering what the best thing to do with the href is. ( I have left out titles to simplify this example.)

I have a test page.

Right now, I'm leaning toward using using href="javascript:;" which was suggested by Robert Sedor. I would really like to hear what the pros and cons of various approaches are.

So far:

leaving out the href doesn't work for hover in IE6

href="javascript://return%20false;" or href="javascript://return false;" doesn't work with webkit

What do you use and why?

UPDATE:
I found all the href="javascript://return%20false;" and href="javascript://return false;" and replaced them with href="javascript:void(0);" or href="javascript:void 0;". I found that if the browser got to the href in some cases the javascript in the onclick was actually being voided, or the return being ignored, so it didn't work.

If I added "return false;" on the end of whatever was in the onclick it was fine. If you put "return false" at the end of the onclick to prevent the href being used, it doesn't matter very much what's in the href just so long as the browser never gets there. For my purposes, I wanted to keep the browser from the href, but also wanted to put something in there that wouldn't cause trouble if the browser did get there by accident (the accident being me forgetting to put a "return false" in the onclick. Putting "return false" at the end of an external function didn't work).

I liked href="#null" because it isn't javascript and seemed to work fine. One of my coworkers pointed out that it would mess up SEO because spiders would try to follow and index the bogus anchor. Users could bookmark it too. So #null is out.

href="javascript:;" didn't void anything and didn't seem to cause errors, so that's what I'm using. I'm also adding "return false".

I had read that browsers are supposed to evaluate the onclick before the href. Someone suggested that some browsers might evaluate them in their order of appearance in the link. I have not looked into this much, but in my very limited testing it seems like the onclick does get evaluated first.

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photos

nobody@vox.com(Miriam) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:12:05 -0700

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Kassav' videos

nobody@vox.com(Miriam) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:23:03 -0800

Kassav Jocelyne Beroard Siwo

Kassav Difé

Kassav Jean-Philippe Marthely Rété

Kassav Mwen Malad Aw

I found some old Kassav' videos on youtube. Enjoy!

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Drive to my house, and then I'll hand you directions how to get here...

nobody@vox.com(Miriam) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:04:21 -0800

As you can see, binding isn’t really that confusing, it’s just hard to explain in a way people can understand it.

Binding is a fairly complicated topic that, as I'm writing this post, can be as difficult to explain as it is to understand. However, once you grasp binding, it will seem perfectly natural to you.

binding can be a pretty tricky thing for a newcomer, but it generally is a very simple concept.

So far no amount of ninjas or foo's have cleared this up for me. I have learned that all the world is an object, and I have found a hack to do what I was originally trying to use bind() for.

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