Contents tagged with General Software Development
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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:
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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 that the number of lines of code typed per day is actually quite small, and the productivity difference for typing that much code is quite negligable.
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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 be bothered to pimp my own stuff. Like I said, lame.
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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:
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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.
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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 child of those two posts.
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Dealing with Conflicting Keyboard Hotkeys in Firefox
It's been a good week for new (to me) Firefox extensions.
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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 in the Firefox Options dialog. But this isn't an ideal solution - it screws up the layout of a lot of web sites. And minimum means minimum - you can't use Ctrl- - to zoom out and shrink the text size.
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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:
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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 or garbage. It smacked of a resource leak, but caused by what? I tried everything I could think of - upgrading the video drivers, disabling add-ins...nothing fixed the problem.