Archives for "February, 2010"

Posted by robhyland on 18th February 2010

TwitPrompter.com

Last night I launched a new service – TwitPrompter.com . After looking around I was surprised at the lack of twitter prompt services there were, so I threw one together. It is not too fancy at this point as I wanted to get the whole thing put together in about an hour, which I did. [...]

Posted by robhyland on 17th February 2010

jQuery UI Accordion Issues in Internet Explorer 6

I really like jQuery UI, but I was having some issues with the accordion in IE6. It was hiding some of the content after I expanded a section. The content it was hiding was in a table, but in fiddling with the code it turns out that it was hiding random things in the div, [...]

Posted by robhyland on 16th February 2010

Internet Explorer Caches Ajax Requests

Last night I was putting some final touches on an app I am developing and I ran into some issues in IE8. When I used jQuery’s $.get() to pull some content off the server it triggered the success function without ever requesting the page from the server. I was a little confused at first, but [...]

Posted by robhyland on 8th February 2010

Go, Chrome!

I was glad to see  that last month Chrome broke 10% in market share. Go, Chrome!

Posted by robhyland on 4th February 2010

Importing from Blogger ftp to WordPress

When I first heard that blogger was disabling its ftp service I figured I would just import by blogs into WordPress. It turns out that the WordPress importer for blogger doesn’t support ftp. Here is a simple solution: Log into blogger and select the blog you want to import into WordPress. Go to Settings->basic and [...]

Posted by robhyland on 2nd February 2010

Goodbye, Blogger

For the past 6 years I have maintained my family’s blog using blogger, but they apparently decided to cut the ftp service. I have been thinking of moving the blog to WordPress for some time now, so I guess I have a good excuse to do so. I have enjoyed my time with blogger, and [...]