20100612 Using jQuery’s inline Datepicker within a form

When you use the inline version of jQuery UI’s Datepicker within a form, it doesn’t submit its value back to the server, since there’s no form element in it. And that’s a pity, because I find the inline mode way more comfortable for users: rather than having to click a button in order to open [...]

20100603 Firefox 64 bit (Ubuntu)

I wanted to test the latest Firefox but for the love of whoever you want, I wasn’t able to find a 64bit build in Mozilla’s site. I could choose between lots of languages, but I couldn’t choose between 32 and 64 bits– their detection system insisted in providing the 32 bits builds. Bad, bad UI [...]

20091019 Saving Netbeans workbench

I wonder if there’s a way to make Netbeans save its ‘workbench’ more often, so that when it is reopened again, it shows the documents I was really working on the last time I touched Netbeans. Unfortunately, what it does now is saving these snapshots only when I close Netbeans. Which isn’t very helpful if [...]

20090619 Bits & bites, 2

The menu for this week consists in: an appetizer of iPhone OS 3.0 and iPhone development ethics coming from unsustainable sources, and some slices of funny spam which may produce you constipation, a main dish based in Opera Unite topped with a little bit of failure from Microsoft (to give a bit of a sour [...]

20061210 Gran Paradiso: faster, nicer, better!

Just had a look at the first alpha from Firefox 3, codenamed Grand Paradiso. Yeah, Firefox THREE! The Mac version has something that other platforms won’t feature: a switch in the way browser elements (also known as widgets) are drawn. For Firefox 3, they will use the Cocoa widgets, which were used previously in the [...]