I’m having an absolutely awesome dicking around with script.aculo.us. For those who don’t know, script.aculo.us is a fabulous Javascript library built on Prototype to add a lot of cool AJAX functionality. Prototype ispretty tightly bound to Ruby-on-Rails, and apparently script.aculo.us is meandering down that route too. Massive shame — it really is quite nice, and [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Saudi Arabia (2)
17Oct05Right, so I’ve just arrived in Jeddah, had my passport photocopied and piled my two carry-ons into AACB’s beautiful Landcruiser Prado. Heading out from the airport parking lot, it quickly becomes obvious that I was right: no amount of money can turn a desert into an oasis. There’s quite a bit of shrubbery, (clearly manicured, [...]
ASP.NET 2.0 name mangling
14Oct05Code mangling’s always been a problem with ASP .NET — the VS .NET 2002/2003 used to mangle the HTML badly when you switched between design and code views, and while that’s been fixed in VS .NET 2005 (aka, The-Shiznit-For-Web-Development-2005), there’s still the problem of element name mangling while rendering. So, for example, a FormView element [...]
Babar’s Quran online!
14Oct05The British Library uploaded images of a Quran commissioned by the Mughal emperor Babar (they call him “Bay’bar” for some bizarre reason), here. Truly beautiful, so take a look. Note, you’ll need Shockwave.
Saudi Arabia (1)
13Oct05I’m back from Umrah in Saudi. The 9.5 days I spent there were fabulous, though the journey to and from was pretty bad. Actually, ‘horrible’ might be more appropriate: on the way out, I was ‘off-loaded’ from the plane after being told because I only had an Umrah visa, I could only fly to Jeddah, whereas [...]
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