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Upgraded, themed, evolved and a fix to the FTP issue

By Ian | February 12, 2009

I’ve now upgraded False Positives to the latest WordPress release WordPress 2.7.1, plus a long over due theme change to Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework (created by Winnipeg’r Ian Stewart.
I you are reading this via the RSS feed, come visit for the shinny.
In the process I corrected a configuration issue which was stopping me from [...]

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Towards Building Toronto 2.0

By Ian | February 4, 2009

A big article in the Saturday January 31st Globe and Mail Newspaper proclaimed :

T.O. IS BECOMING A SOLUTIONS PLAYGROUND: WHY OUR CITY IS THE LATEST HOT SPOT FOR GEEKS, WONKS AND WEB JUNKIES, Toronto 2.0: data sharing source.
The focus of the article was largely on an event run at the Center for Social Innovation run [...]

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Tab interface for static content using JavaScript Prototype

By Ian | October 9, 2008

I wanted to make a simple as possible Tab interface, using the Prototype JavaScript library (version 1.6.0.3 in this case using the Goggle AJAX Libraries API).  Further adventures is modern javascripting….
Real world uses for this would include any time you have big long page with static chucks of text, or other content, that you want [...]

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JavaScript for a single element radio button list, revisited with Prototype

By Ian | October 2, 2008

Last year I posted JavaScript for a single element radio button list, referring to a issue I had with getting the value of generated radio button list. (All the standard solutions / samples that i found assumed the there are 2 or more choices.  And I had a case were an optional field [...]

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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) StartUp event in Toronto

By Ian | September 16, 2008

The team from Amazon Web Services (AWS) came to Toronto (at the MaRS Building)to show us their stuff, and demo’s from some local folks showing the “what”, “where”, and “how” to their use of  AWS in real life. (no admission cost for the event. Yea!)

Tracy Laxdal did a great job on all the the logistics [...]

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CCS & Ajax Links for March 24th

By Ian | March 26, 2008

Divs instead of tables – to paraphrase : “Use the div, Luke.”
or, if you do have a list of some kind, then maybe you should be using <ol>/<ul> and <li>’s rather than all the div’s? see A CSS layout that does not rely on DIV, FLOAT, CLEAR nor structural HACK! for more
ModalBox a (Web 2.0-style) [...]

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SnTT: Notes Document Structured Text Export for Multilingual (UTF-8)

By Ian | November 15, 2007

This Lotus Notes Domino “Show and Tell Thursday” was promoted by Paul Harrison’s new blog and his sntt post on SnTT: Notes Document Structured Text Export. (Welcome Paul, and thank you!) My current nightmare involves a lot of Multilingual madness. Within Notes/Domino is not a big deal (it’s all auto-magical) [...]

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Lotus Notes and Domino 8 now shipping

By Ian | August 17, 2007

Via Ed Brill (and on schedule, as expected) the new Lotus Notes and Domino 8 (once known by the code name “hanover”) is out for all your communication, collaboration and coordination needs. Most oblivious in this release are the improvements in the UI (beyond just eye candy) and other changes in the Notes [...]

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Secure Ajax mashups by Brent Ashley

By Ian | April 5, 2007

Shaping the future of secure Ajax mashups and how to improve the browser for hybrid Web applications.

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Lotus Guru makes a more Attractive Export of Categorized Notes Views to Excel

By Ian | March 23, 2007

Kevin Pettitt (aka Lotus Guru) took my code to Export any Lotus Notes View to CSV or Excel, automagically, and made it work a bit better than my (raw by design) output in his Make Attractive Exports of Categorized Notes Views.

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