Ranges in Ruby (and .. vs …)

Saturday 01/3/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized

Ranges in Ruby are nifty: you can define a set by its start and end values and a range of values will be generated.  This works “as long as the objects can be compared using their <=> operator and they support the succ method to return the next object in sequence.”
Ranges created with .. will [...]

Using getSelection() with content in frames

Sunday 12/28/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized

An iPhoneSender user recently reported a bug with the Safari bookmarklet not correctly grabbing the selection and suspected it was because the selected content was in frames.
After some digging around, it turns out he was right–if your selection is in a frame, the normal window.getSelection() method will return nothing; you’ll need to target the specific [...]

Easily download full-size Flickr photos with Flickr Original (Firefox extension) (update)

Tuesday 12/16/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized

Follow Flickr Original on twitter for status updates
(UPDATE: Version 1.0.6 available!)
(UPDATE: Version 1.0.5 available!)
(UPDATE: Version 1.0.4 available!)

(UPDATE: New and improved version 1.0.3 available!)

(UPDATE: Firefox 3.5 version available!)
I  love Flickr, but sometimes their interface gets in the way and stuff takes more clicks that I’d like.  One thing I like to do is view/download original size [...]

Forwarding multiple emails across two Gmail accounts

Friday 12/5/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized

My inbox was getting cluttered with work-related stuff, so I decided to push it to a separate Gmail account.  Now Gmail has a nifty “Forward all” feature for single conversations, but doesn’t provide a way to forward multiple conversations at one time.
After Googling for a bit, someone suggested using a mail client and IMAP.

Make sure [...]

swfobject error in IE and WordPress

Friday 12/5/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized

I ran into a minor annoyance today with a JS error popping up in IE:
‘J.parentNode’ is null or not an object
It turns out that a couple plugins that were active (nextgen-gallery and flash-video-player) were both including the swfobject.js in the header.  Solution: disable one of the plugins.  If you really need both plugins, the other [...]