Author Archives: Dennis

Using YUI to Create Nested Tabs

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Dennis

Recently, I was browsing the YUI JavaScript forums and found a post about nesting the tab control. I haven’t done that before personally, but have done things where my tabs had Ajax or DHTML dependencies inside the tabs. I decided … Continue reading →

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Using Multiple Python Environments With Gentoo

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Dennis

It’s been some time since Python 2.5 became stable and released. Version 2.5 has plenty of new features that have helped me in deciding that it was time to go ahead and start using it for primary development of all … Continue reading →

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Using YUI components in a templated environment

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Dennis

If you develop sites anything like I do, you’ll end up setting up a site wide layout and theme before you start coding any individual pages. I like to add YUI components where they are useful, but I’ve come across … Continue reading →

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Serving JavaScript Fast

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Dennis

I found this excellent writeup on serving JavaScript files posted on Digg.com. I think I’ll convert some of those ideas to Python but I thought it worth posting here in the mean time with the link to the story. The … Continue reading →

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Using a Makefile to generate Latex documents

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Dennis

So, you’re using Latex to compile a paper, article, or book. If you have any type of table of contents, index, or bibliography, you’ve probably noticed that you have to run latex two (or sometimes 3) times to generate the … Continue reading →

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Gentoo with an Intel DQ35MP Motherboard

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Dennis

I’m slightly sad to see my old radeon 9600 card with Compiz being obsoleted. My motherboard in that machine shorted out somewhere and I was left with a bricked machine. Since the product was essentially about 5 years old, I … Continue reading →

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