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Month: January 2007

quotation

For the first time, we have two African‐American coaches in the same game (Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith). That’s going to lead to a series of columns and features about the significance of this fact, followed by a series of columns claiming that it’s 2007 and we’ll have truly broken down the race barrier when two blacks can coach in the Super Bowl without anyone mentioning this, followed by a series of columns excoriating the previous series of columns for belittling the significance of two black Super Bowl coaches in a league that has clearly been afraid to hire black head coaches. Sadly, all of this stuff will overshadow the biggest story involving an African‐American NFL coach — that the Steelers just hired Omar Epps to replace Bill Cowher.

Bill Simmons
thought

It took nearly all weekend (and some help from iDefrag), but I’ve finally set up a Boot Camp partition to replace my Parallels Desktop disk image. I’d nearly stopped using Parallels simply because it took so long to start up and would slow everything else down, but moving to a physical partition solved that. Between Boot Camp support and coherence mode, the recent betas of Parallels have been fantastic.

thought
4

Prototype Core. Qualified to write a JavaScript library, to be sure, but clearly unqualified to speak about hair care. (I include myself in this assessment.)

link
2

At long last: Prototype has an actual web site. With documentation. There’s plenty more to say, and I’ll save it for a longer post, but Justin Palmer is owed some major kudos for working so hard on the site. And so do Chris, Tobie, and Mislav — the three newest members of Prototype Core — who poured their hearts and souls into documentation.

code

Code: Prototype Auto-build TextMate Command

Bind to ⌘S. Will execute rake dist automatically if you just saved a file in the src directory. 

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Save: Current File
# Input: None
# Output: Discard
# Scope: source.js.prototype

FILE = ENV['TM_FILEPATH']
DIR  = File.dirname(FILE)
if (DIR =~ /\/src$/)
  basedir = DIR.gsub(/\/src$/, '')
  Dir.chdir(basedir)
  `/usr/local/bin/rake dist -f #{basedir}/Rakefile`
end
code
7

Code: hasAttribute for IE

Believe it or not, this actually works. Kind of. 

Element.Methods.Simulated.hasAttribute = function(element, attr) {
  return element.outerHTML.match(/^<[^>]*>/)[0].indexOf(" " + attr + "=") > -1;
};
link
1

Digg scares me. Yeah, me too. Digg added moderation to comments a while back, but as far as I can tell it hasn’t raised the level of discussion. The community seems to reward the same qualities in comments as it does in stories.