http://www.krues8dr.com Personal website and programming notes of Bill Hunt Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:23:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Internet Explorer 8, it seems that Scriptaculous / Prototype sometimes miscalculate exactly where to place the autocomplete box. As a result, it will usually not show up at all, since it's off the screen. The trick here is that it's calculating a left and top absolute position ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2009/10/30/scriptaculous-prototype-ie-8-autocomplete-disappearing-problem/ When we redesigned hotelicopter, I had to spend a lot of time cutting up images for a bunch of buttons and boxes. I was using the now-standard Sliding Doors technique, so that we could have flexible boxes. Today, I realized that I could combine this technique with another ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2009/08/11/css-spriting-doors/ So, one us pilots was trying to use Doctrine migrations to update a database on one of our servers. However, Doctrine was sternly refusing to use the correct database, as configured in the database.yml file. As it turns out, using Symfony from the command line skips the usual ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2009/06/16/symfony-doctrine-on-the-command-line-using-the-wrong-database/ The Doctrine manual is really, really confusing in places. If you want to do something as simple as updating a record, the examples suggest that you use Doctrine_Query::create(). This doesn't make a lot of sense, because we only want to manipulate the model, we shouldn't have to even ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2009/06/09/symfony-doctrine-update-a-record-using-models/ Like a good programmer, I try to be good about unit testing. And also as a good programmer, I throw errors in my PHP where appropriate. I just learned today after a bit of digging through the codebase, that SimpleTest can be told to expect an Exception (or ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2009/06/01/php-simpletest-unit-testing-expecting-exceptions-and-errors/ For the last few months, I haven't been able to use MSN Messenger with Adium. I'd log in, but it would just hang endlessly. Searching the bug reports was frustrating, and didn't provide any insights. Today I found this obscure post which gives the solution. Apparently ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2009/03/24/fix-for-adium-not-working-with-msn-messenger-bug/ I've just created a new Wordpress plugin to unstyle comment replies, which fixes an issues with zebra striping of comments in the newer versions (2.7.x). You can find out more about it on the plugin page. http://www.krues8dr.com/2009/03/17/new-wordpress-plugin-unstyle-comment-replies/ I've been having trouble with a Scriptaculous sortable object that wasn't catching the onUpdate function I'd assigned. In this case, I was using an UL for the parent with LIs inside. After digging into the code, I discovered that there are several criteria that must be for the actual ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2009/02/10/scriptaculous-sortable-create-onupdate-event-not-firing/ We were just struggling here at work with an insane problem where IE 7 (and ONLY IE 7) was dropping sessions for PHP. Literally, we would try a trivial test case of creating a session and a new session id (generated with the session_id() function) would appear each ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2009/01/26/php-session-dropping-problem-with-ie-7/ A handful or two of new photos from my cameraphone are up in the razr section. http://www.krues8dr.com/2008/09/08/new-photos/