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Viviti Navigation Component Hover Menus

April 16, 2009

Recently there have been some customers that have been asking if there's anyway to have javascript hover menus for their navigation on their Viviti websites. During the last release we've made the jQuery Superfish plugin available on your websites so that it's easy to get it working with as little …

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Markaby and Rails 2.3.2

April 16, 2009

I just pushed up some fixes to my Github repo for use with 2.3.2.

The changes made are not backwards compatible with older versions of rails. If you're using an older version of rails and are following my repository you should not upgrade to this version unless you're updating to the latest version …

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SWFUpload and Flash 10

October 20, 2008

With the recent release of Flash 10 by Adobe, a change in security regarding FileReference.browse broken SWFUpload. The details of the security changes are out lined at the following address: 

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes_02.html#head3

Any existing c…

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Native OS X gitk clone

September 12, 2008

GitxGithub is currently featuring an awesome native OS X gitk clone. The application matches most of the feature set of gitk as far as I can see, and it also loads up the repositories quite a bit faster.

I'll definitely be using this instead of gitk from now on. You can download the latest stable releas…

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Javascript debugging in Internet Explorer

May 26, 2008

We're just coming up to finishing a two week iteration of mostly browser compatibility fixes on Viviti, mostly for Internet Explorer. I've poked around quite a bit trying to find anything that even comes close to the glory that is Firebug for Internet Explorer, but I've come up empty handed for th…

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TinyMCE button labels

April 8, 2008

While working on getting TinyMCE configured for viviti.com, we found that some of the buttons in TinyMCE weren't exactly clear in what they were intended for. We decided that we'd need to put a label beside the buttons we felt needed more explanation. There wasn't that many changes needed to get thi…

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Installing Git on CentOS 4.6

March 29, 2008

I currently have a VPS that has CentOS installed and went to install Git via Yum, but it didn't seem to have it in the default repos. I've tracked down the following repos and you just need to follow the steps below to get it installed:

$ sudo touch /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/dag…

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Ruby standard out piping problems on Ubuntu

March 29, 2008

I've been having problems where the output of binaries was not being redirected properly from within Ruby when invoked as followed:

  >> `ls -l &> /dev/null`
  => "total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 dinsley dinsley 4096 2007-05-08 20:00 Peepcode - Rest"

If the shell supports this piping convention, it should ret…

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TinyMCE syntax highlighted code editor

March 29, 2008

We're currently using the super-improved TinyMCE version 3.0rc1, which apparently has gone through an entire rewrite for the 3.0 release. Aside from making TinyMCE incredibly faster and more efficient, they also implemented an awesome API for easily creating plugins. I decided to test the new API ou…

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