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Friday, July 06, 2012

My Kingdom for a Bug Fix

At my new work, the wireless keeps flaking out.

This wouldn't matter much if it wasn't for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/912702 - every day I'm closing ~50+ network authentication prompts.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Internet Explorer, String.concat() and Javascript 1.5

Hello, Internet Explorer... have you ever tried to join two strings together?

Not add them ambigiously with

"a" + "b"

but

String.concat("a", "b");

them?

I'm guessing none of your developers ever has, because it doesn't work.

Why this acceptable:

String.fromCharCode(12);

but for concat, you have to do:

String("a").concat("b");

?

Ridiculous.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

PEAR bug day roundup

A quick summary of the who and what were involved with PEAR bug day on July 13th / 14th.

The main focus of this bug day just past was open SOAP bugs.

SOAP has obviously a fairly large user base, and little problems have led to a massive flood of bug reports!

Involved were:
Jan (SOAP lead), Chuck, Helgi, and even myself for a few scant hours.

While we didn't get to close many tickets, the wheels are certainly turning towards bringing SOAP back into the fold. There's now a better understanding of the design of the SOAP package amongst other PEAR developers, and the average quality of reports is marginally increased.

Over the next week or two we should see more test cases come in from original reporters, as well as perhaps a patch or two.

Aside from the focus on SOAP, Chuck managed to deal with a lot of bug reports for XML related packages (particularly XML_Util, as well as dealing with changing licences.
Helgi did some behind the scenes work for PEAR itself.

Check out the PEAR calendar for the next triage, on August 3rd/4th.

The goals for then:

Check out bugs in SOAP marked for feedback from previous triage
Improve test coverage for SOAP
Track down the last parts of licensing for XML related packages
Others TBA on the mailing list

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Unsupported by IE7/8: textContent()

IE 8 doesn't implement textContent.


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>Broken textContent()</title>
    </head>

 <body>
  <p id="textcontent">
    It's called textContent()
    Got any?
  </p>
  <script type="text/javascript">
  alert(document.getElementById('textcontent').textContent);
  alert(document.getElementById('textcontent').innerHTML);
  </script>
 </body>
</html>

Thursday, March 06, 2008

IE8 Beta 1: onchange for checkboxes

toggle me!

This test demostrates the broken onchange behaviour in IE8.0.6001.17184

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Trac Whinge

I want an Autocomplete in trac. Or else!

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Open Office Calc Enhancement - stop pestering me and do what I say

Every time I open a CSV, I get prompted to format the stupid thing the way I want.
I just hit ok. I have never in my life reformatted the CSV - maybe I've done
that *after*, while 'editing'.

For users like me:

If I use the open dialog, I should be given an option to 'launch format helper' (checkbox) / advanced. This would prompt me as it does now.
There should be a 'reformat' type menu option, which launches the same UI as #1
The current UI prompt should include a 'use these settings by default' checkbox
Once I've set my defaults, I should never be pestered again unless I explictly 'erase defaults'.

Issue 62729

Open office calc enhancement - find it!

Say I've searched for "beans", "frogs" and "fish".

I hit ctrl + f, and I start to retype 'bea'.

Open office should autocomplete for me, and show all previous search keywords
starting with "bea".

To see how this would work, go to your location bar and type "goo".
You'll see google.com come up, as well as others.

Issue 73543

Gaim whinge pays off

Me:

Autoprofile looks to be a very useful plugin. Unfortunately, the maintainer
appears to have been busy and has more or less let it slide.

- how much effort would be involved in making it work on the latest
gaim?
- is anyone able to do so?
- does anyone know a better way to get in contact with the author and
give them a friendly hassling? (on the site; contact info doesn't appear to
reach them)

I know I'd certainly love to make use of it...

Gary Kramlich:

I talked to Casey tonight, and will be attempting to update it for a
release for beta6. This will be done via the sf project since I am now
a developer there as well. In any case, there is going to be a bit of
leg work, so don't hold your breath expecting it to come out right when
beta6 does ;)

See thread unmaintained plugin: autoprofile

What do you hate about Open Office?

Comment away!

FIXED Open Office Calc Bug - stop stealing my selection

Highlight several cells
Ctrl + f(find and replace)
Check entire cells
Advanced options
Check 'current selection only'
Find something that isn't there, ie: data = "aa","bb","cc"; search = "dd"

Expected:

You are notified that you have no matches
Your selection remains intact

Actual:

You are notified that you have no matches
Selection is lost

Issue #73542

Open Office Calc Enhancement - shut up about CSV already

When I save a spreadsheet to CSV, only the active sheet is saved. The first time
I ever did it, I might have cared about the warning, but now I do not.

Please allow me, in a similar fashion to firefox, to elect to never see this
message again via a checkbox. It should, ideally, default to checked.

See also: 54761

Issue 62729

Open Office Calc Enhancement - read my mind with text selection

This applies to 2.0.4

When you have a selection of information, Calc should be clever enough to automatically determine you want to find & replace within that selection.
It should also be very easy to correct that assumption if you have highlighted cells, but want to find & replace in the entire document.

Highlight information
CTRL F (find and replace)

Expected:

The 'advanced options' UI is expanded
Only in current selection is automatically checked
Since advanced options is expanded, you can really easily uncheck 'current selection only'

URL:
Issue 73541

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Bad rails

Can someone help this patch get a move on?

Escaping `table names` for mysql - so reserved sql keywords don't cause errors.

Daniel O'Connor