Category Archives: Web Development

Web site and web application development

Running into the Internet Explorer Travel Log bug

Posted on June 6, 2011 by squdgy

I recently ran into some strange behavior in an application that I was working with. In some particular conditions, the browser back button would become disabled, and I could no longer go back to see the last page I was … Continue reading →

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New England Code Camp 15 Presentation – Introduction to the Ext JS JavaScript framework "for Rich Apps in Every Browser"

Posted on May 13, 2011 by squdgy

Joan Wortman and I gave a talk at New England Code Camp 15 last weekend. The talk was titled “Introduction to the Ext JSJavaScript framework “for Rich Apps in Every Browser””.  Here are the slides for that talk: Introduction to … Continue reading →

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New England Give Camp 2011 Recap – “Code it Forward”

Posted on May 13, 2011 by squdgy

Over the first weekend in May I had the pleasure of joining more than 100 other volunteers to help ~29 non-profits with technical challenges in the 2nd annual New England Give Camp, held at the Microsoft NERD (New England Research … Continue reading →

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Book Review / Overview: “EXT JS In Action” by Jesus Garcia

Posted on April 26, 2011 by squdgy

Review: Ext JS by Sencha is a terrific JavaScript framework for building Rich Internet Applications (http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/). I’ve been using Ext JS since version 1.x, and do some pretty advanced stuff with it, so this is not a newbie review. To … Continue reading →

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Liferay Theme Files Without a Cache-Control Header?!

Posted on March 25, 2011 by squdgy

I ran into an interesting situation with our web application as we started to do some testing where our portal server (Liferay 5.1.2 on tomcat 6) was on the west coast and the testers on the east coast. The application … Continue reading →

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Book Review / Overview: “HTML5 and CSS3” by Brian P. Hogan

Posted on January 21, 2011 by squdgy

Review: I’ve just finished reading “HTML5 and CSS3” by Brian P. Hogan (http://www.bphogan.com/) and The Pragmatic Bookshelf. I’m not new to HTML and I’ve even read another book on HTML5, but I really learned a lot from this book, and … Continue reading →

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GWT Tip: Don’t use your module name as the id of an HTML element in your page.

Posted on January 13, 2011 by squdgy

I spent a few hours tracking down and fixing something in our GWT application over the last couple of days, and thought I would blog about it in case someone reading this blog (maybe me in the future) runs into … Continue reading →

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Book Review / Overview: “HTML5: Up and Running” by Mark Pilgrim

Posted on December 23, 2010 by squdgy

Review: I’ve just finished reading “HTML5: Up and Running” by Mark Pilgrim (http://diveintohtml5.org/). I liked the book, as it’s a good introduction to the new features of HTML5, and even broken down the way I wanted it to be, i.e. … Continue reading →

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NECC14 Presentation – Debugging JavaScript in Visual Studio

Posted on October 4, 2010 by squdgy

How to Debug JavaScript using Visual Studio. Continue reading →

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How to find the Teradata Process Id (TDPID) under Windows

Posted on September 29, 2010 by squdgy

I was recently trying to connect to my local Teradata instance via the BTEQ (Basic Teradata Query) command-line tool and ran into a problem trying to login. I usually use the Teradata SQL Assistant GUI based tool, so I don’t … Continue reading →

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