JavaScript Shell

JavaScript Shell: "A command-line interface for JavaScript and DOM."

20 Questions to a Better Personality

Here's an interesting personality test I found via Whole Wheat Blogger

My results were:

Wackiness: 10/100
Rationality: 72/100
Constructiveness: 40/100
Leadership: 34/100

You are a SRDF--Sober Rational Destructive Follower. This makes you a Fountain of Knowledge.

You are cool, analytical, intelligent and completely unfunny. Sometimes you slice through conversation with a cutting observation that causes silence and sidelong glances. You make a strong and lasting impression on everyone you meet, the quality of which depends more on their personality than yours.

You may feel persecuted, as you can become a target for fun. Still, you are focused enough on your work and secure enough in your abilities not to worry overly.

You are productive and invaluable to those you work for. You are loyal, steadfast, and conscientious. Your grooming is impeccable. You are in good shape.

You are kind of a tool, but you get things done. You are probably a week away from snapping.

Addendum, 2004/07/19: this fits me 99%, there is a slight inaccuracy however. We are not necessarily completely unfunny. If we have a sense of humor (I do) it surfaces on the occasion with well-timed, completely dry, very sarcastic, wit. - Chase

Of the 84172 people who have taken this quiz since tracking began (8/17/2004), 7.5 % are this type.

A List Apart

A List Apart : "A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards."

Huygens Pictures of Titan

Here's some links to pictures of Saturn's moon Titan from the Huygens probe:

ESA - Cassini-Huygens

NASA - Cassini-Huygens: Close Encounter with Saturn

Update: The Onion has a list of Huygens discoveries.

More Character Entity Info

The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)

A Simple Character Entity Chart : evolt.org, Code

A Simple Character Entity Chart : evolt.org, Code: "Character entity references in HTML 4"

The IFRAME+SSL Problem

One of the common causes of the "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items" message is the IFRAME+SSL problem.

If you're using SSL and have an IFRAME without an SRC attribute, the frame will start out displaying a nonsecure blank page which causes the warning. To get rid of the message you need to supply your IFRAME tags with SRC attributes that display secure content from your site.

If you don't know ahead of time what page the frame should display, just make a file that contains an empty html page and use that.

<iframe src="empty.htm"/>

Google Suggest Dissected

Here'a an interesting analysis of the Google Suggest javascript code - Google Suggest Dissected...

Curbside Limb Pick Up

Here's a link to the curbside tree limb pickup info for Overland Park.
Curbside Limb Pick Up

NPQ

New Perspectives Quarterly - "Cutting-edge debate on current affairs"

Picasa: Free Photo Software From Google

Picasa: Automated Digital Photo Organizers, Picture Software, Instant Photo Albums, Sharing, Printing

Hiding the Image Toolbar in IE

Hiding the Image Toolbar in IE:

You can make your page not display the image toolbar on an image-by-image basis by adding GALLERYIMG="no" to the <IMG> tag, as shown in the following code example:

<IMG SRC="mypicture.jpg" HEIGHT="100px" WIDTH="100px" GALLERYIMG="no">

Or you can disable the display of the image toolbar for an entire Web page by setting the HTTP-EQUIV and CONTENT attributes of the META element. Set HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" and CONTENT="no". Just put the following code in the HEAD section of your page, and IE doesn't display the image toolbar for any image in the page.

<META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no">

XPath Visualizer

The XPath Visualizer Version 1.4: "This is a full blown Visual XPath Interpreter for the evaluation of any XPath expression and visual presentation of the resulting nodeset or scalar value."

AKA XPath Visualiser

The writings of Charles Darwin on the web

The writings of Charles Darwin on the web: "The most complete collection of Darwin's work ever published- with original page numbers, illustrations etc."

Sysinternals Freeware

Sysinternals Freeware: "The Sysinternals web site provides you with advanced utilities, technical information, and source code related to Windows NT/2000/XP/2K3 and Windows 9x, Windows Me internals"

MONSTER ATTACK!!!

MONSTER ATTACK!!!

And here's the monster attack page and a monster attack bookmarklet.

Update: Unfortunately his site's been suspended. To bad as it was a pretty cool effect.

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System

This was pretty cool looking.

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System: "S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well."

Group Policy Editor

To get to the Windows Group Policy Editor, run gpedit.msc

September .NET User Group

I went to the September .NET User Group meeting on Tuesday. They announced that Microsoft has changed its mind and all the new XML stuff they talked about last time is cancelled. It may become available as a SourceForge project.

The talk was on Test Driven Development, which I thought seemed somewhat impractical.

I discovered Dan Mannes, one of the new employees at work, also attends these user group meetings. I'd thought he looked familiar.

August .NET Users Group Meeting

The topic for this month's Kansas City .NET User Group meeting was "Introduction to System.Xml and Web Services" and the presenter was Microsoft MVP in XML, Jeff Julian. He's the creator of the .NET Book Club and hosts the blogging system Geekswithblogs.net.

Some highlights (Microsoft propaganda?) from the meeting. I forgot my notebook so they're from memory.

• Microsoft is deprecating XSLT in favor of XQuery. System.Xml.Xsl is going to be marked as obsolete in .NET 2.0 and will return warning messages when its used.
• XmlDocument and the XML DOM are also being deprecated in favor of improved XML streaming techniques that will allow editing not just appending to the end of the stream.
• SAX is bad because its Java and its old. (See what I mean about the propaganda?)
  
• He demonstrated using XmlDocument, XPathNavigator, XmlReader, XmlWriter, and used a web service to demonstrate XML serialization.

I ran into former co-workers Galen and Derrick Vidacak at the meeting and had a good time talking to Derrick for a while after the meeting.