http://blog.charismaticdog.com What rolls down stairs... Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:51:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en but I'm still pretty pleased with my little "other" revealer here: function changeOption(object) { var obj_id = jQuery(object).attr('id'); var obj_val = jQuery(object).val(); jQuery(object).children('option').each(function() { var this_val = jQuery(this).val(); var field = jQuery('#' + obj_id + '-' + this_val); if( this_val == obj_val) { jQuery(field).parent().show(); } else { jQuery(field).parent().hide(); } }); } http://blog.charismaticdog.com/2009/12/04/a-ninja-wouldve-done-it-with-less-code/ I was talking to a friend about my ecto 3 woes and he pointed out that he's still quite happy with version 2. I'm still working on my own solution for this problem, but for now. I'm going to give ecto 2 a shot (yay serial that works for both!) ... http://blog.charismaticdog.com/2009/11/13/ecto-2-better-than-3/ You know things have changed when 4 of 5 laptops at the coffee shop are Macs and not one is mine. http://blog.charismaticdog.com/2009/03/29/deltatime/ Saw a 5 minute version of this speech last Saturday. It is awesome! Watch this with your favorite geek and watch him laugh so hard he cries. http://blog.charismaticdog.com/2009/02/09/i-can-haz-compiler/ Wikipedia chaps my hide something fierce. The more I see user's flagrant misuse matched only by the moderator's drunken sense of their own power, the more I cringe away from trusting it at all, even as a starting point. That's all I had. I suppose I could have tweeted this ... http://blog.charismaticdog.com/2009/02/05/wiki-fail/ Came this close to sticking with the Thunderbird 3 Alpha/Shredder series, but search tipped me back to Mail.app and emaildiscussions.com solved my problem. Quoted for posterity: "For the sake of continuity, I'll give the PlistEditPro steps here. a) Close Mail.app. Make a backup of your com.apple.mail.plist file ... http://blog.charismaticdog.com/2008/12/10/super-handy-solution-to-mailapp-conundrum/ My beautiful wife: My awesome new puppy: New friends and co-workers. Surprising new opportunities. My new office surrounded by the people I love working with. A shiny new lappy to work on. An election that may lead to ... http://blog.charismaticdog.com/2008/12/09/things-im-thankful-for-2008/ I've been remise in my duties. Amber and I have added the following cute little guy to our family this past summer: The above is Chester two weeks ago. Below is Chester's adoption photo on peterfinder.com. He's square ... http://blog.charismaticdog.com/2008/12/09/hello-little-buddy/ I asked this question on facebook this afternoon: 'gold star' or 'all the tea'? In some further detail the above are band name ideas. All the Tea is Jaysen's contribution and is short for "all the tea in China". It has a nice sound to it and a pretty good Family Guy ... http://blog.charismaticdog.com/2008/09/21/gold-star-or-all-the-tea/ I get that this it's mostly for fun at this point but I can still appreciate the good folks over at Codeweavers releasing a port of Google Chromium for the rest of us to enjoy. http://blog.charismaticdog.com/2008/09/18/thanks-codeweavers/