I made my first attempt to use the new Drupal 7 beta to upgrade my existing module experiment site. Unfortunately, I quickly ran into a fatal error: DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table cache_path already exists. in DatabaseSchema->createTable() (line 621 of /home/myname/public_html/books/includes/database/schema.inc). I submitted a bug for the error at the time it happened. Checking back later, though, I couldn’t […]
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When last we spoke
When last I posted, I had planned on updating that post with W3C co-chair decisions on my other HTML5 issues. I wasn’t quite expecting to be here, over a month later, still waiting on decisions. Not sure what’s happening with the W3C HTML WG at the moment, other than I think the group is making […]
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JavaScript Cookbook on way to printers
We just finished the last of the quality control checks on the JavaScript Cookbook, and it is now on its way to the printers. The Table of Contents should be showing soon at the O’Reilly book web site, but I’ll give you a taste of what I covered: The usual suspects, such as String, Date, Math, […]
here are times I really miss the mark. From a past writing I stumbled across when looking for something else: if the web were any other industry—petroleum, pharmaceutical, airline, auto, electrical utility, and so on— allowing the companies who produce products in the industry free and unfettered reign to define the standards for their industries, […]
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Spring Cleaning
This weekend we spent going through the house and creating four piles: books to donate to the library computers and electronics to recycle at the electronics recycling place stuff for Goodwill a recycle/toss pile. This will be the first time I’ve recycled computers. In the past, I’ve found homes for older machines while they were […]