Jeff's Junk - All Comments

re: GUI tools are not the enemy

mYsZa — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:43:17 GMT

well, he didn't say that GUI is bad. He just said that there are people that think they know some tool just because they can use it via GUI - which is not exactly the same. I think he's right.

re: GUI tools are not the enemy

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:39:20 GMT

Don't you think he has a point? I have on occasion interviewed a developer that was paralyzed if he did not have SQL Enterprise manager because he was unable to write a join

re: Salesforce.com: I missed an opportunity

levon7 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:24:34 GMT

Try <a href="www.highrisehq.com ">Highrise</a> from 37signals.

re: U.S. education sucks, and other observations

Moira — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:12:02 GMT

Education sucks. Why is that? It is done on purpose. Mediocer leaders don`t want an educated populace. When someone owes his position entirely to his connections that doesn`t make him qualified. You certainly don`t want a surbordinate smarter and more knowledgable then you are. That situation would make you look like the moron you really are.

They simply forgot that well trained employes for business enterprises in the country must be trained and nead some basic proper education. If not, get your future staff in foreign countries and close your useless schools. You will save alot of money.

Then there is the more and more self evident fact that our members of the teaching profession cannot teach what they themselves do not know.

In Quebec,Canada, 50% of future teachers flunked their entrance exams in university in their own mother tongue! And they will be required to teach it? Wow! In Canada, America, western Europe, good books, qualified teachers who know their academic subject and a proper curriculum and adequate preparation to final exam are all deficient.

Therefore, it is no surprise if 60% of Canadian students flunked History,55% of students don`t graduate high school in major urban centers, and some say the real numbers are more like 60% failure in the whole province. Some students are encouraged by school staff and schoolboards not to even try to pass provincial exams required by the ministry of education to prevent the school`s rating from falling lower. So, U.S. nabours, do not despaire, you are not alone.

The reality is simple.The disgusting garbage quality of education persist, because no one is accountable and it is not a political priority.

All schools have a rating of 1 on 10. If your school is rated 8 it means 80% of the students at this school succeded at provincial or state exams. If your school is rated 5 or 4, now what does that mean? You can compute that. Those ratings are published and you can find them on the internet.

More and more parent home school their kids simply to make sure they learn the basics academic skills neaded in life. (reading, writing, maths,geography, and a little arts, history, sports)

Find the solution that works best for you.

re: G4-TechTV merger is really backward

andy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:15:30 GMT

I agree with the statement about taking points away from key elements in games. Like that one time they complaned about Metal Slug being cartooney. It's supposed to be cartooney. G4 doesn't even have any sense of art/beauty, they just rate every game on counting poly/textures/pixels/colors are. They consider using bright colors to be a result of bad programming, because they are too niave to realize it doesn't work that way. They also have no sense of fun. A game could be moving super fast, with tons of cool explosions and special effects, with tons of stuff going on at one time, and G4 doesn't notice it because they're busy counting pixels and textures in little puddles of mud on the ground and stuff.

re: Why must Microsoft tools work against me?

noli — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:46:57 GMT

i freaked out looking for the t-sql in vs2008

re: The default button on enter on an ASP.NET form

jonsch — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:55:33 GMT

holy crap Scott, you're like the asp.net supreme guru. Actually, my opinion is bias dude, I've read tons of your books and watched a good number of your videos.

Keep kickin' arse and takin' names, as I'm sure the internet community truly appreciates it, I know I do!

Thanks.

Jon

re: Inserting text into Firefox rich text editor

Jeff — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:11:01 GMT

I did... obviously things changed a lot in three years. If you check out my PointBuzz site (http://www.pointbuzz.com/) and go into the forums and register, you can see my current implementation in the script pieces. It's wrapped in the AJAX framework, but the formatting code works something like this...

_formatCustom : function(command) {

if (this._isGecko)

{

var edittext = this._richBox.contentWindow.getSelection().getRangeAt(0);

var original = edittext.toString();

edittext.deleteContents();

edittext.insertNode(document.createTextNode("["+command+"]"+original+"[/"+command+"]"));

}

if (this._isIE)

{

var edittext = this._richBox.contentWindow.document.selection.createRange();

var original = edittext.htmlText;

edittext.pasteHTML("["+command+"]"+original+"[/"+command+"]");

}

re: Inserting text into Firefox rich text editor

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:49:59 GMT

Hey Jeff,

Did you ever get anywhere with this? I'm in the same boat right now with my website. All I want to do is has very light weight rich text editor for users add and information about products (bullets underlines) color

re: Facebook app for iPhone... wow!

Justin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:49:05 GMT

How do you check friend requests from the iphone facebook app? thank you