Thursday, September 29, 2005
VS.NET - ASP.NET - Handling Treeview display issues
posted by Keith [9/29/2005 06:40:00 PM] - permalink - 0 comments
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
New Layout For Main Index
posted by Keith [9/27/2005 10:32:00 PM] - permalink - 0 comments
Monday, September 26, 2005
VB.NET - Tip - Generating Random Numbers
posted by Keith [9/26/2005 08:07:00 PM] - permalink - 0 comments
Saturday, September 24, 2005
How Tall
A list of celebrity heights.
I had a list of 'how tall' stats I put together several years ago. It wasn't very comprehensive, but today I decided to publish it at mredkj.com. To make the page somewhat useful I describe a little bit about the sources and some other places to find celeb height information.
2005-10-02
In the mredkj 'how tall' page, I explain how you can use Google to get a famous person's height. For the most part it works, and the top result is specially formatted answer.
I've read variations of this trick at other sites (e.g. oreilly.com). The keywords they recommend are height or tall, which is a little simpler than my suggestion of how tall is.
The one problem I've found is the different keywords aren't always consistent. Here's an example.
The following Google search will return only normal search results.
tall Michael Moore
height Michael Moore
Yet this will give the special Google top answer.
how tall is Michael Moore
Michael Moore (II) — Height: 5' 11½" (1.82 M)
According to http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601619/bio - More sources »
posted by Keith [9/24/2005 03:02:00 PM] - permalink - 1 comments
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
JavaScript - Add options to a select from a new window
A couple people sent feedback about an error they were getting when trying to add options from a new window. My recommendation at this time is to remotely call a method that will add the new option. Refer to tutorial008.html for an example.
Update - 2005-09-21
I did some searching for existing solutions, and found this issue has been around a while. One solution worth checking out is in the last post of this devshed thread. Basically, the trick is to increment the length of the options, then reference the new option to set the text and value.
posted by Keith [9/20/2005 11:27:00 PM] - permalink - 5 comments
VB.NET Map Drive
posted by Keith [9/20/2005 12:26:00 AM] - permalink - 0 comments
Thursday, September 15, 2005
JavaScript DOM Traverse
JavaScript utility to traverse the DOM under an element.
There are other resources on the web to traverse the DOM, but I wrote this script just to get a simple view of an element's DOM structure. It came in useful when I was trying to figure out some browser differences.
posted by Keith [9/15/2005 04:10:00 AM] - permalink - 0 comments
Monday, September 12, 2005
Software Patent Rant
Feel free to leave yours in the comments here.
posted by Keith [9/12/2005 05:28:00 AM] - permalink - 4 comments
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Diet Coke commercial 2
(2006-02-02 - Retroactively added a page to mredkj.com with this information, plus some)
I received a question asking about a Diet Coke ad, which was described as "The one where the guy is in his apartment getting ready to go out"
I found an ad entitled "Loft" currently playing at dietcoke.com
I looked up the song based on the lyrics, and concluded it is "I Like the
Way" by Bodyrockers.
Update: adweek.com has an article with more information.
Update (2005-09-22): zudfunck.com has a thread about Coke commercials which says that the "Loft" Diet Coke guy is Paul Papadakis.
posted by Keith [9/08/2005 01:49:00 PM] - permalink - 4 comments
Thursday, September 01, 2005
ASP.NET Numeric Textbox control
ASP.NET Numeric Textbox control that handles pasting.
Eric wrote this control including my validation javascript.
posted by Keith [9/01/2005 06:04:00 PM] - permalink - 0 comments
