http://www.onelastpixel.com Another Code and Design Blog en-us $pubDate webmaster@onelastpixel.com http://www.onelastpixel.com/post/5 This morning I walked my parents through the cleaning of their computer, which had gotten infested with everything you can think of. Eventually the culprit was discovered, a program installed that was touting itself as a greeting card e-mailer. The hours spent cleaning the computer could have been saved had the file been scanned before being installed, but who wouldn't trust such an innocen $pubDate http://www.onelastpixel.com/post/4 Several years ago, when I was just learning Javascript, I ran into a situation where I had to convert a string to it's monetary equivalent - 10 = 10.00 or 15.320000 = 15.32 Rather than spend the time searching for a function to do it for me I wrote out a quick little function to solve the problem. A few days later a friend of mine, who at the time was a much better coder than me, saw it, a $pubDate http://www.onelastpixel.com/post/3 A couple of weeks ago I was working on a Server Side Dom Parser for imperfect markup, and I realized while doing it that I could extend it to display HTML sent to the user with more organized markup. At first, this sounded like a good idea, but after thinking about it for a little longer, I decided against it. As a programmer, organized code is very important to me. Which is not to say that I $pubDate http://www.onelastpixel.com/post/2 I've seen a lot of blog posts recently about usability in Flash, most of which are very negative, written by people who seem to have used earlier versions of Flash, and decided that nothing has changed. However, there is one thing that has kept me away from doing projects in Flash with a lot of text. That one thing, is the browsers find function. I use the find function a lot. Often times $pubDate http://www.onelastpixel.com/post/1 This morning, I read a post on the XUL User Group, from someone confused as to why some of CSS properties he was familiar with weren't working with XUL. This is something I've seen pretty often with the RIA XML based languages, (Flex, XAML, XUL). People have gotten so used to HTML, that they've decided it's the standard to judge other languages against. The truth is, even with CSS, HTML is $pubDate