Monthly Archives: August 2008

YUI -> jQuery

By docwhat | Published: 2008-08-28
I just switched my (rather limited) JavaScript from YUI to jQuery. jQuery took a little (a couple hours) to learn how to write something close to idiomatic code. My new code is much much smaller and easier to read.
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Byrne Eno

By docwhat | Published: 2008-08-25
David Byrne and Brian Eno have released a new album and I’m on my second listen.
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Xen Networking

By docwhat | Published: 2008-08-08
Gerf.Org just switched to Xen. It’s running in a domU on hardware that is massively more powerful than it used to be.  The original hardware (until about 3 years ago) was a 333Mhz box with 20gigs of disk-space. Since then it has been running on newer hardware. However, the hardware was flakey and getting flakier. [...]
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An anthropological introduction to YouTube

By docwhat | Published: 2008-08-04
An excellent presentation on what You Tube is and how it has impacted our culture. It is a presentation given at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008 by Michael Walsch, an assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. I recommend watching it in it’s entirety. YouTube – An anthropological introduction to YouTube. [...]
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unappealing taxs, part 2

By docwhat | Published: 2008-08-01
I just got the “Disposition of appeal from real estate assessment”.  This is also known as the ruling.  In short, it says that the “evidence insufficient to change value”; no change.  Yay! The only recourse the city has now is to appeal to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County within thirty days.  I [...]
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