IE8 Developer Tools Wont Show, Empty Window, Doesn't Display in Windows 7

5. March 2010 17:50
I've had an ongoing issue lately when doing some browser compatibility work in IE8.  Pressing F12, or activating IE Developer Tools from the Tools menu loaded a window, however the window was empty.  Clicking on the window in the Windows 7 taskbar, had no effect.  At first, I th... [More]

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IE7 bug: Link Inside of Div Wiggles on MouseOver

23. February 2010 15:50
I've been looking at a bug in IE7 where mousing over link inside of a div causes a "wiggle."  Needless to say, this wiggle is highly irritating, especially when the div and the link has its margin and padding explicitly set to "0."  The problem is compounded becau... [More]

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Google "Where can I find Chuck Norris" and click "I'm feeling Lucky"

22. February 2010 18:04
Google won't search for Chuck Norris!!!  Proof that there are still senses of humor in the world.  Actually, this is not a Google return result but rather a cleverly disguised Google-ish result replica designed by the folks at NoChuckNorris.com.  well played, well played indeed.... [More]

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Collapsible Panel with .Net DataGrid. Overflow Property breaks DOM. Causes 'Spillage'

18. February 2010 16:35
So I've been looking at a recent problem and trying to come up with an elegant solution.  I'll need to give a little background.  I found a legacy component that had originally been coded using HTML 4.0 and seemed to work fine.  Recently, we migrated to the XHTML1.0 standard... [More]

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Android: Google Voice Search No Longer Accesses Contacts

15. February 2010 10:01
About a month ago, I noticed that Google Voice Search no longer allows me to dial from my contact list.  I'm not sure exactly when it stopped working, but it seems that I updated some of my applications right around the time this happened.  Also, I do know that right around the same ... [More]

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Microsoft Windows 7: "Gripes My Ass" Series

7. February 2010 09:41
Ok, this really gripes my ass.  In the "brilliant" minds over at Microsoft, they have decided to add this new "feature" to the way users are allowed to run programs.  Ok so here's the set-up.  My account type is Computer Administrator.  But in order to r... [More]

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Windows 7 in Action - My Music, My Documents gone without reason

21. January 2010 11:36
So I logged in yesterday morning after having gone to bed relatively early (around midnight) the night before after running Windows Update to find that mysteriously, without cause or warning, several HUNDRED GB of data were "missing" from my brand new Windows 7 64-bit filesystem.  A... [More]

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.Net Datagrid? Weird Lines for no apparent reason? This is the answer.

16. January 2010 00:16
I was recently working on doing some CSS refactoring on an older project in C# and was finding some odd happenings with some of my pages in various browsers.  The pages in question all contained .Net Datagrids, yet only some of them were having "issues."  After refactoring the ... [More]

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Neato: God Mode in windows 7

6. January 2010 10:45
Found this interesting post by Ina Fried yesterday on CNET yesterday.  If you are running Windows 7,  create a folder on your hard drive and give it the name GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} The folder icon will immediately change to resemble the control panel ico... [More]

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Google Nexus One now available via online Google Phone Service center

5. January 2010 14:47
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Nexus One launched by Google

5. January 2010 14:24
Watch the event live! Live Broadcast by Ustream.TV Launch updates: multicolored LED trackball for notification and trackball functionality, enriched colors, active noise cancellation, additional homescreen space, integration with CoolIris, live wallpapers enhancements with dynamic interacti... [More]

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Software Architecture: Real-Life Facade

17. December 2009 16:02
A while ago I worked on a project where we had a single client that had multiple products.  Each product required its own product site including a shopping site for the products.  Upon discussing the options with the client, who was not fond of the idea of having to track and maintain a ... [More]

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URLs are People Too - Using the Social Graph API to Build a Social Web

13. December 2009 12:20

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Flash API for Google Maps

13. December 2009 12:17

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Dalvik VM Internals

13. December 2009 12:16

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