The unreliable Internet Explorer

(Photo: BlubrNL)

I was stuck with this problem today, and thought I should write a blog post about it, so should anyone encounter the same thing, they won't waste time trying to track exactly what's happening.

Basically it was flagged to me this morning by my project manager that when you tried to submit a form that calls for a report generation using the enter key, the report would not be generated.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:29 PM - Categories: Website Optimization | Technology

CrunchPad turns into Joo Joo

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I've been following the recent news about CrunchPad, and for all of our disappointment, it's been discontinued due to a "misunderstanding" between the guys from TechCrunch and Fusion Garage, who were developing this together.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:06 PM - Categories: Linux | Technology

Flash on the iPhone

(Photo: William Hook)

Not really Flash running from websites on the browser, but at the MAX Conference 2009 that is happening this week, Adobe has just broken the news that Flash developers will now be able to create applications for the Apple Iphone using Action Script 3.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 10:30 PM - Categories: Technology

Updating Java on Centos

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I'm only writing this blog post because I usually try to keep my VPS up to date, and usually one of the things I have to do to accomplish such thing is updating the Java version.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:00 PM - Categories: Website Optimization | Linux | General Techie Stuff | Technology

I truly hate you IE!

(Photo: Kay Kim)

I just came across a very interesting bug on my website. I've made a post on twitter today asking the local CSS gurus if they knew of any way to fix this:

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 11:00 PM - Categories: Website Optimization | Technology

A more elaborated jQuery Drag & Drop (with cloning)

I've decided to get back at jQuery draggable and droppable to a personal project I've been working on. In the past, I've demonstrated how to do basic drag and drop, but this time I needed something a little bit more elaborated.

I won't spoil my personal project by showing what it id before it gets done, but I'll show here an example of what I wanted to accomplish which will use pretty much the same functionality, but in other application.

The idea is:

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 4:20 PM - Categories: JQuery | Javascript | Technology

Recursively delete folders with Python

At work we've been doing some deploy optimization, and the need of automatically deleting (recursively) specific folders came up.

We use MXUnit to Unit Test our applications, and store all of our tests based on what they're related (inside _test folders). So basically we end up having lots of folders in our file structure that are not supposed to go into production for security reasons.

We use SVN for development, but don't use it on production for security reasons as well, so we always end up with a deploy package (SVN export) containing all of the files necessary for a specific release.

At the moment this package is generated, we still have our test cases in it, and it would be really painful to delete all the "_test" folders one by one if the release is too big.

We easily end up with something like:

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 11:00 AM - Categories: General Techie Stuff | Python | Technology