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JSON-APML Tag Cloud

As a member of the APML Google group, I’m constantly reading and keeping in touch with the APML developments. The latest development that sparked my interest was the need for a JSON equivalent of the...

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Blu-ray PS3 stuttering playback woes… Solved!

This blog post is for anyone who owns a PS3 and has discovered that *some* Blu-ray discs have stuttering/dropped frames playback. I purchased a Playstation 3 back in April 2007, and received a free...

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APML2JSON Script/Service

This script takes an APML feed, and parses it into valid APML-JSON based on the APML-JSON spec on the APML wiki. Instead of manually parsing the APML into JSON, I have used the XSLT file attached to...

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natsort() pain in PHP

While writing some software for work which works out distances between geographic locations, I discovered some nastiness with the natsort() function in php. This function implements a sort algorithm...

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Rails gem install mysql throws error: *** extconf.rb failed ***

Whilst reading guides on how to setup a rails dev server under OS X (both Tiger and Leopard), I kept running into issues installing the mysql gem. The guides would instruct you to install the mysql...

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Issues with mysql 2.7 gem

I’ve been trying to get a rails development setup running on my Leopard install. After managing to get the mysql gem installed without errors, I can’t use the gem in any projects. When I run rake...

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jQuery fadeIn/fadeOut IE cleartype glitch

While using the jQuery  javascript library today at work, I noticed a glitch under IE7. When fading a html node with the .fadeIn() and .fadeOut() functions in jQuery, IE drops the windows Cleartype...

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Trac ticket: reset to new

We have recently moved from Mantis to Trac at work for our bug/task tracking, but we have encountered a slight issue with Trac’s workflow management. The issue is that we wanted to be able to move a...

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Google Chrome : array evals return out of order

I just want to make others aware of a little quirk with Google Chrome’s Javascript engine (V8), eval’d associative JSON arrays (aka objects) are returned in the incorrect order . The problem is that...

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