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Advanced TinyMCE Editor - Adds double the functionality of the WordPress WYSIWYG editor by adding 30 new buttons totaling 60 buttons!…

Source: www.mkbergman.com/?p=384
There must be a new drug out there, watch out kids!

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More comments: lots. but I better don’t even tell you how much time I’ve just spent trying to paste the above code snippet in the WP editor as text.

Sorry, I’m cynic. But I don’t write such stupid software that is used by 43.8% of the bloggers on the net. And I’m too lazy to look for another blogging software and move to the remaining 56.2%

OMG I just realized I have a weird and terrifying creature in my KUbuntu KDE 3.5.8. One thing I do appreciate in KDE (and, generally speaking, Linux) applications is consistent UI elements and few people trying to reinvent the wheel who usually end up creating painful and horrible usability enemies.

But this makes my neckskin crawl. Who the hell put a slider and a push button in my KDE menu?!?







Edit: I don’t need to add that the push button label will actually change to the opacity value as soon as you move the slider, ensuring that only a lobotomized squirrel could understand that pressing it will reset the opacity to 100%.

  Lettres de Lou
Originally uploaded by Arslan.

This is another I-just-need-a-break-and-some-coffee post.
You have been warned. It’s not about raccoons or bikinis. I’m really sorry to disappoint you.

I’m currently working on “fixing” (read rewriting from scratch most of it) a WSDL parser in C++ and I had to completely rewrite the XSD type definitions parser and class hierarchy. And that sucks. It’s a pretty interesting task and I’m having some fun at it, but I’m finding it quite hard to understand the whole XSD specifications and just write a bunch of classes and a parser that will be used to both process 3rd part WSDL files and to generate WSDL files using a dummy-proof UI.

All the documents at W3C are quite  misleading, IMHO. I have been looking at some “tutorial” at w3cshools.com too, but that website really sucks. Most of the pages contain about 5% of actual contents and 85% of ads. The remaining 10% (I hate maths) is reserved for menus and other crap. No problem, if only the 5% of contents would have been more visually separated from the crap. And if only I was not forced to load another page after reading two sentences.

Nevertheless, there is a rather interesting document about complex types in XSD at xml.com: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/08/22/easyschema.html

It really helped me understanding complex types. Too bad it doesn’t cover many other topics that are part of the schema definition.

Well, that’s all folks. Back to </work>

Snail on sail
Originally uploaded by Colours of Infinity.

The photo above is in no way related to the slowness of the development on movida. Ok?!?

Ok, enought with it. This post is not about bikinis or naked racoons, in case you are wondering, so feel free to stop reading and close this page.

There’s been lot’s of progress on movida since my last post and mainly on the Smart View (how does it come that I call something I have written “smart”?!?) and on the bug-side
In short, this post is about zooming the Smart View, new movie attributes, new smart view controls and compressed SVGs. No, no bikinis!

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