Scotch on the Rocks 2010, Day 1 part 3
The Art of Emotional Design: A story of pleasure, joy, and delight.
Aral Balkan
Aral was a really engaging User Experience speaker who kicked of by talking about the always-current "Technology X is dead" conversation ; that conversation itself is dead. Cobol isn't dead. Adobe ColdFusion might be gone, but ColdFusion the language is a commodity - Railo proves this.
Skills are more important, as its your time you use :-)
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Scotch on the Rocks 2010, Day 1 part 2
A whistlestop tour of HTML5 and CSS3
Chris Mills (Opera)
I should have bumped into the speaker before now really, as he's from Manchester, but we'd never managed it :-)
Anyway, Chris started with a bit of history, namely that HTML4 is not dead. It can't do some things like video, which is why Flash got started in the first place. One great quote was 'bullshit will HTML5 kill Flash'.
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Scotch on the Rocks 2010, Day 1 part 1
This years Scotch on the Rocks was based in central London, a conveniently small walk from Trafalgar Square itself.
The venue was a perfectly well layed out Tiger Tiger, with large rooms for the talks and funky mezzanine chill out reception area.
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Towards a better Novell proxy login experience on Linux
For a long time I've been using the excellent cl4others utility to keep my Linux desktop machine logged into the corporate Novell firewall, so that programs don't get their expected updates (etc.) turned into a HTML password request page.
The offical Novell client packages are still a nightmare to install and configure, and don't actually authenticate me for some reason anyway.
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Weekend's pictures
There are a few snaps from this weekend here.
Tim D arrived Friday and was fed more than enough from the local Chinese, together with two bottles of wine between the three of us before we walked it off back to ours.
Reseting a Flex DataGrid's dataProvider when using a filterFunction
It's fairly common to have a filterFunction applied to the ArrayCollection you are displaying in a DataGrid, such as to hide deleted items:
dataGridData.filterFunction=stateFilterFunction;
I was also allowing users to edit and remove the displayed items; so needed a quick way for them to 'reset' all their unsaved changes, which lead to a couple of gotchas.
<mx:DataGrid dataProvider="{dataGridData}" editable="true" id="wipDG"
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Mylyn Reports
I'm always saying how good the Mylyn plugin for Eclipse is, in keeping the UI focused on the task at hand.
Because it integrates with your issue tracker, the trackers reports can be used if you want a summary of what you did, or what's still left to do.
But what if you aren't using an issue tracker in Mylyn, just the 'local' repository, thus getting a lot of the benefits without needing to set up anything else ? How do you get the reports then ?
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Confirmation of relation
Having just received the certificates I ordered from the Isle of Wight, I can now confirm the Chivertons are related to the Brown, Goodchild, Godwin, Gates, Sury, Arnold, Stacey, Clarke, Regis and Luxford families.
Thank you Gill for bring this line back to the 1750s as well.
The certificates that create the link are attached.
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