December, 2007

Dumping the landline

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Interesting read. I’m shocked to find out that 1 in 8 households have dropped their landline completely to live in a mobile-only world. I decided to do this about 5 years ago when I moved into a new apartment . . . after boldly claiming that such a phenomenon would NEVER happen only two years previous.

Well, I kinda decided to.

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Making a kryptonite list and checking it twice

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

So watching the Cowboy vs. Packer game last week reminded me of the fact that I need to formalize my kryptonite list. It’s been growing in my head, but it’s time I put some virtual pen to paper and get this thing documented.

I suppose we can start with what a kryptonite list is. Seems somewhat straightforward to me, but if you don’t listen to the Ticket day after day like I do, maybe you’re not so familiar.

Hmm, my kryptonite. Maybe examples would help.

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Simple Browser Testing Tool

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I love little simple batch files. Yesterday I decided to create a simple one to perform a beating of a task for me.

When developing, I keep Firefox and IE7 open at all times. Every time I’m working on a template, drop copy into a page, fix a bug, I always quickly check them in both browsers. However, once I finish a larger task, say complete a couple of templates or a small section with copy, I need to test in all of my browsers. That list now includes:

So, once I completed a section and was ready to do a little more involved browser testing, I needed to open each browser and drop in the url.

Very repetitive. Very boring. Perfect for a batch file.

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