Saturday January 31 2009
It's been a few years since I last did serious javascript development. The tools have certainly improved a lot.
Having performance issues somewhere in several thousand lines of javascript is never a good thing, but with a little data from FireB...
Friday January 30 2009
Actually using an application makes a big difference to which features seem important. Since starting to use GDNote I've added a few features that earlier seemed like things that could be done later.
Archiving - Hiding pages that you don't want ...
Friday January 30 2009
Here's a not too obvious error message that was fairly frustrating for a while. I have been using WMWIFIRouter to share my 3G connection with my mac. Using it in Sydney, it worked perfectly without any configuration. But the first time I tried to us...
Friday January 30 2009
GDNote is a notebook application built on top of Google Docs and using a structure and UI similar to OneNote. It runs in the browser (tested with Firefox, Safari and IE) and uses Google Gears for offline access.
We just passed a fairly important...
Thursday January 29 2009
Here's another Google Docs API trick. Using the standard .NET API only word documents can be uploaded with embedded images. Embedding images in the HTML doesn't work, and any images linked in the html will not be copied to the Google server.
How...
Wednesday January 28 2009
Since the project I was supposed to be working on until mid-february got cancelled at the end of the year, I extended my original two week trip to Thailand to a couple of months. That's far too long for a disconnected vacation (It's been a long time...
Wednesday January 28 2009
Today I finally got around to setting up a decent way of handling code blocks on my blog - some of my earlier code listings looked pretty awful if I didn't put enough work into the formatting.
I'm now using SyntaxHighlighter from Google Code. It ...
Wednesday January 28 2009
Lately I've been working on an app that uses the Google Docs GData API. I've found that Google Apps shares a lot of the properties that make SharePoint development particularly interesting:
Searching for error messages doesn't help much b...
Wednesday January 28 2009
I seem to have rather suddenly got to 4 months without a post on my blog. So, what have I been doing for the last few months?
Spent four months working at a bank. Didn't really achieve much because with acquisitions and restructuring the project ...