Author Archives: Dennis

Creating Image Preview Tooltips with the YUI Overlay Widget

The Yahoo UI Library provides a nifty helper for creating tooltips. I started playing around with it when I wanted to add the same tooltip to a large number of elements on a page. What got me interested in this … Continue reading

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Can Google’s Adsense bot understand gzipped html pages?

During my experiments with WP-Super-cache, I noticed a strange thing happen to my Adsense ads. A short while after getting gzip compression to work properly, all my ad content had foreign characters and strange seemingly unrelated content. Having changed nothing … Continue reading

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Configuring Apple Mail 3.0 (Leopard) to use Imap with Gmail

I recently purchased my first iMac. I’ve been having all kinds of fun learning about OS X features as well as playing with the newly certified Unix system (Darwin) that powers the operating system. Anyhow, I’ve been pleasantly surprised at … Continue reading

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Gentoo and the Next ATI Drivers (Catalyist 7.11)

As of a couple days ago, ATI released their next drivers for Linux. The drivers were previously announced to be versioned 8.43.x but ATI has converted to a new numbering system that follows the popular YEAR.MONTH notation. The 7.11 drivers … Continue reading

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A Few Latex Tips

I’ve been finishing up the final formatting for my thesis this last week at Utah State University. Latex is great when you are provided a style file beforehand. If you have to modify or create your own style however, beware. … Continue reading

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Implementing the Apriori Data Mining Algorithm with JavaScript

I’ve been working on my thesis for a little too long. I’m hopefully about finished, but that is beside the point. Part of what I’ve been working on revolves around the Apriori Data Mining algorithm. If you know what Apriori … Continue reading

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