The folks at BioWare have put together an amazing auction for charity. They’ve got a ridiculous collection of Dragon Age: Origins goodies, including a freaking shield. A shield! Are you kidding me?! No, I am not: The auction, which is on none other than eBay, can be found here while original blog post is here. Check it out even if you can’t participate, and pass it along. More money to help out the kids the better!
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In case you missed it, the Coding Horror, Stack Overflow and Haacked blogs died in almost a literal fire. Well I don’t think there was an actual fire, but basically they all hosted their blogs in virtual machines on the same physical server, and the backup process never backed up the virtual machine files since they were always in use. The backup process was managed by the hosting company and silently failed on these files. Oops. While I’m fai...
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Cancel YouTube uploads on your iPhone
This might seem trivial, but once you start an upload of a video to YouTube from your iPhone, I couldn’t find a way to cancel it. Well no more are terrible drunken videos going to get uploaded! Oh wait, yes they will. Nevermind. Anyway. The simple way? Just set your phone to airplane mode. It turns off the radio, so if you are uploading on your cellular network, this will cause the upload to fail. If you are on Wifi, I would also assume that y...
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Mockups and Me, a Balsamiq Review
If you haven’t heard of Balsamiq Mockups, get out from under your rock and go look. I’ll wait. Back? Cool, right? One really cool part is they will give you a free copy if you ask, but the deal is you have to blog about it. So this is me blogging about it. I heard about Balsamiq a while ago, but it never really clung to me. I never really had the need for it. I downloaded it and played with it for a few minutes, and then moved on with life. Th...
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swfobject, meet jQuery
I was getting sick and tired of just blindly copying and pasting embed code for videos and every other flash thing I post. Naturally, being a programmer I had to do something about it. Enter jQuery and swfobject Check this out: Some embed tags that are provided are only of one type: either object or embed. This is no good since that means some browsers are excluded and it won’t work. Lame! Swfobject solves the problem by using JavaScript to in...
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Unescape HTML with Javascript
I’m just passing this on, as I didn’t do it, I just found it. Over here is a pretty slick way to unescape HTML. I ran into the need for this when I was working on some inline-editing code. I wanted to reset the contents of the textarea to the contents of a pre tag. The contents of the tag are of course escaped, but I want them to be proper HTML in the textarea. Using this trick allowed me unescape the contents easily and stuff it back in the t...
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