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New utility for dealing with off-screen apps - Front And Center!
From time to time I find myself faced with a really annoying problem - a Windows application that has positioned itself offscreen. This usually happens for one of two reasons: A bug in the software. Sometimes things go terribly wrong, and the application...

Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 12:07 PM by kevindente | 18 comment(s)

Programmers and typists
The inimitable Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame (or is it Stack Overflow fame now?) recently blogged about the importance of typing skills for developers. In typical smackdown style, he posited that "coding is just typing". Jimmy Bogard disagreed , saying...

Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:38 PM by kevindente | 13 comment(s)

Come hear me blather on the Herding Code podcast
In an effort to plumb the outermost depths of blogging lameness, I'm writing today to announce my participation in a podcast about software development. Why is that lame? Because the podcast started over two months ago . Yes, that's right, I can't even...

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:11 PM by kevindente | 13 comment(s)

Can we stop with the "Change my homepage" crap please?
I finally got around to installing the latest beta of Windows Live Writer, my favorite blogging tool. As part of the install, it displays the following dialog: I can't believe that in this day and age, applications still want to change my home page. The...

Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:23 PM by kevindente | 8 comment(s)

Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)
Maybe this is common knowledge, but my co-worker and I spent some time chasing this down today, so I figured I'd post it in the hope that it will save other people some time. Normally, a empty, unstyled DIV reserves no space in an HTML document. However...

Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 2:18 PM by kevindente | 39 comment(s)

Hacking a 100% zoom feature onto NoSquint with KeyConfig
I recently blogged about the NoSquint Firefox extension, for remembering per-site text zoom levels. I also recently blogged about the Keyconfig extension, which allows you to change hotkey bindings. I guess you could say that this post is the bastard...

Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 9:48 AM by kevindente | 6 comment(s)

Dealing with Conflicting Keyboard Hotkeys in Firefox
It's been a good week for new (to me) Firefox extensions. Any serious Firefox user will tell you that it's all about the extensions. Unfortunately, if you install enough extensions, you'll eventually encounter a conflict between the hotkeys registered...

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:15 PM by kevindente | 12 comment(s)

Dealing with Small Font Sizes in Firefox - NoSquint
Generally, I find that the font sizes used on many, if not most, web sites, are too damn small - especially on a 15" UXGA laptop screen. To avoid having to hit Ctrl-+ (text zoom) on every page I visited, I've been increasing the the minimum font size...

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:48 PM by kevindente | 8 comment(s)

VMWare on Vista Lameness
Am I the only one majorly annoyed by VMWare's support policy (or lack there-of) for VMWare on a Vista host? Apparently EMC's stance is that in order to run VMWare on a Vista host, we need to wait for VMWare 6.0. This presents several problems: VMWare...

Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:21 PM by kevindente | 41 comment(s)

Beware the Outlook Vista Sidebar Gadgets
Ever since upgrading to Vista and Office 2007, I've had a really annoying problem with Outlook 2007. After running for a couple days, the UI would lose the ability to repaint itself correctly. It would glitch out and start drawing large blank regions...

Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:12 PM by kevindente | 7 comment(s)

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