November 2010
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Awesome Gifts 2010. Part 1.
iPad Camera Kit Apple.com $24.00 USD It lets you download photos from your digital camera to your iPad.
Walnut iPad stand Etsy $59 USD
Space invaders cutting board Etsy $125 USD
MacBook Decal Etsy $10.41 CAD
Synology DiskStation DS410j Amazon $388 USD
4-Bay (Diskless) Network Attached Storage Model: DS410j
Gorilla Pod Joby.com $35.99 (probably USD)
Sources: ars, unplggd
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The Great Cyberheist →
Its a tad creepy to realize that your credit card information is this vulnerable…
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Medal of Honor (sort of) review
I realized I had this sitting in my draft’s folder for about a month and I never posted it. I played Medal of Honor over a week period on an XBOX 360, with my 32” TV and my Turtle Beach headphones.
CAMPAIGN
The annoying:
Characters stuck in spots.
Areas don’t move forward unless some hidden dude behind a wall is killed (who doesn’t come out to find you, or make any...
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[tech] CodeMirror: getting value of a textarea...
The setup is like this, I have a textarea on a form that gets loaded through ajax. After the request has finished, CodeMirror turns that textarea into a nice editable field for css code.
The issue was, once I try to save the form (also with ajax), I couldn’t get the value of the field to send it along with the rest of the request because the instance of CodeMirror wasn’t in the scope...
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Ajax.Updater's default insert property is weird.
Ajax.Updater’s default insertion option is to replace the contents of the container… So, if I have:
<div id="test"></div>
And I run Ajax.Updater on $(‘test’), the results are:
<div id="test">
<div id="test"></div>
</div>
Not what I was expecting. You expect it to “replace” itself, not add it as a child.
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Learn Python The Hard Way →
For later, when I have free time. Its kinda exciting to learn a new language, specially one that can be learned easily; comes installed in OSX: 1+, has a free book 1+.
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