While testing some updates to one of our Facebook applications today, I ran into an odd error message on IE8. The error message mentioned KB927917, and is caused by trying to modify the DOM before it is built. At first, I was confused, because the app is not modifying the DOM at all, its a […]
I had a great time attending and presenting at CapitalCampDC this year, and look forward to doing it again. I talked about how we are using Facebook applications to run contests at D.C. United. You can view the slides at the link below.
If you pre-ordered a Dance with Dragons like me, you might also be waiting for it to be delivered. While you internally debate the value of thriftiness in pre-ordering it (48% off!) versus more immediate gratification, you can instead read this spolier-free Q&A interview with George R.R. Martin about the book and the rest his
“Coal and natural gas have much lower capital costs, and they tend to kill only a few at a time, which is highly preferred by politicians.” Find out in Wired’s interview.
If you use Google Analytics to measure traffic and activity on your website, once you start customizing the tracker code, use the asynchronous tracker, or do more complicated tracking it can be hard to verify that your changes have worked. The asynchronous tracker won’t necessarily emit any js errors and you can’t always waitio see
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Though, really you should go read the paragraph that follows. Today, infected by Malthusian ecology, the Left relentlessly preaches millennial doom and technological risk: the climate is heading for catastrophe; resources are running out; population is growing too fast; farming cannot keep up; habitat is being destroyed; poverty, hunger, pollution, disease and greed are only
Somone check my math here but I calculate that by their numbers, the annual cost of electricity for a single DVR is between $17 if you pay about ten cents a kilo-watt hour and $25 if you pay closer to sixteen cents an hour. Is this something to get worked up about? Aren’t the costs
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Three links today examine how the issue of immigration will affect politics in the US in the coming years. This country has to decide how, not if, to integrate immigrants into the political sphere. Republican’s opposition to reform and generally anti-immigrant talking points are a short-sighted strategy which can only alienate most immigrants. Joshua Green
Good explanation of the limitatins of using Drupal to run a multi-lingual site. Then there is “the other side”, whatever does not come from code. Drupal works pretty well and very consistent if you want all of those to be in a foreign language (i.e. not English), but not in multiple languages (any of which