Cocoa’s object model is something I really like. Coming from Java, being able to declare a property and have the getters and setters auto generated is really wonderful. The key value way to interact with an object is also a very powerful tool. The problem is what happens when these two collide. For a project [...]

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§327 · May 27, 2011 · programming, work · 3 comments · Tags: , ,


For one of our projects, I was creating a photo bar. When the mouse was over one of the photos it was ment to increase in size and decrease back to original size when the mouse left. Unfortunately the client for which this was developed uses ie7 exclusively. This has brought two problems: 1. ie7 [...]

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§266 · May 28, 2010 · programming, web · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


It is good practice to put all of your javascript code in its own namespace. When doing so in combination with setTimeOut timer function it is important to remember that the object evoking the function will be the DOM window and not your namespace object. Therefore it is needed to add the namespace before the [...]

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§262 · May 11, 2010 · Me · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


Drupal, like most CMSes uses cache intensively to speed things up. In a production site that is exactly what you what. However when developing, cache can cause you much pain. If your an expert in drupal you probably already realized when you need to clear the cache in order to see changes and when not [...]

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§168 · May 29, 2009 · guide, programming, web · 5 comments · Tags: , , , ,


An interesting talk about secret software and why it should not be allowed in the public sector

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§76 · August 7, 2008 · programming · (No comments) · Tags: , , , ,


Dreamhost appears on the django site as one of the django friendly hosting services. Unfortunately, dreamhost does not officially support django. It does not have mod_python installed. Django is instead deployed using FastCGI. Hopefully sometime in the future mod_python will be added. There are a few good guides I have found, that explain how to [...]

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§73 · May 19, 2008 · programming, web · 5 comments · Tags: , , , ,