Software Development – Your Catchphrase Here

Read-only CVS access for only certain projects

I’ve recently decided to move from CVS to Subversion, but I’m not ready to move everything at once. Thus, I have decided to move some things and save others for later. In order to do that properly, I need to make some projects in CVS read-only while allowing others to remain active. A bit ofContinue reading “Read-only CVS access for only certain projects”

Cure for OpenOffice.org Calc “the maximum number of rows has been exceeded”

Today, I was working with a colleague to generate a report in CSV format and she was having trouble opening it in OpenOffice.org’s calc (spreadsheet) program. She was getting the error “the maximum number of rows has been exceeded”, yet the file had only about 2800 rows in it. I tried it and got theContinue reading “Cure for OpenOffice.org Calc “the maximum number of rows has been exceeded””

Indenting HTML options

In CHADIS, we had a requirement to indent certain <option> elements within a <select> dropdown list. Until recently, only team administrators had to use these pages, so we just made it work in Mozilla Firefox and left the other browsers out in the cold. Now that we have some new features that need this capability,Continue reading “Indenting HTML options”

Attempting AJAX

So, AJAX is one of the more recent causes of excitement in the web-based application delivery world. The first major site to feature AJAX (as far as I know) was Google’s gmail. Assuming that you are okay with writing tons of Javascript, it’s quite a nice way to spice up your application enough to makeContinue reading “Attempting AJAX”

(Yet Another) Microsoft Internet Explorer Rendering Bug

Microsoft Internet Explorer always has the more interesting interpretations of markup.

Character Assassination

Using a programming language touted for its strong internationalization support along with an application server that should do the same, one would think that “international” characters would be easier to deal with. It turns out that the world is out to get me.

How old are you, really?

An investigation into time delta computation.

Can I Get A Witness?

Chris begs for recognition for some prior art…

Doughnuts! I like Doughnuts!

I’ve been a software developer for quite some time, and at my last job, I was indoctrinated into the practice of buying doughnuts for the development team if one of the developers “broke the build”. For those who don’t know what that means, let me tell you. Any decent software project has a central repositoryContinue reading “Doughnuts! I like Doughnuts!”