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Just Shelley

Grilled Cheese

I like my cheese sandwiches grilled, with slices of bread and butter pickles. Or with ham on sour dough. I spent the day completely tearing apart my bedroom/office, moving tables around so that I have my PC laptop on one side of my TV and my Powerbook on the other. With the DVI to HDMI […]

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Just Shelley

Breaka de web

I finally uploaded chapter 7 for the reviewers, and was it a difficult chapter to do. The topic has to do with breaking the web with Ajax, putting it back together again, and what are known as ‘single-page’ applications. After thinking on it for days, and looking at some extraordinarily torturous ways of patching together […]

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What were they thinking?

Zoë had to go in for a rather intensive physical today. She’s always been somewhat of a gorger, chomping down her dry food too fast and than…well..you know. Lately it seems to happen more frequently and we thought it was time to check her out, make sure she’s OK. Zoë’s also moving with more difficulty. […]

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JavaScript Writing

Learning JavaScript errata

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If wishes were horses, book authors would have a herd. All too often you see the ‘oops’ and such only after the book is in print. In my case, I’ve worked with JavaScript for so long (since the very beginning) I brought along a couple of bad habits that made […]

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JavaScript Writing

New Year

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just posted a note at Mad Techie Woman about an error in the Learning JavaScript book I could kick myself for. It has to do with quirks mode, and the fact that browsers interpret an XHTML document as HTML when served with an .htm extension, and the fact that […]