http://eric.polerecky.com I play with computers Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:33:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick reminder, both Prototype and Mootools extend (er um…’prototype’) the JavaScript core language. As such they can’t be used together. For example, you cant have FancyUpdate2 (based on Mootools) and TableSort (based on prototype) on the same page…and if you include JS in your header ... http://eric.polerecky.com/archives/prototype-and-mootools-are-incompatible/ Today I updated eric.polerecky.com to 2.7-beta2 using the wordpress-automatic-upgrade plugin. Everything went smooth. Once the upgrade was complete I had to disable wordpress-automatic-upgrade because of some errors in the admin pages. How to: edit wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php around line 2100 and change $downloadURL = 'http://wordpress.org/latest.zip'; to $downloadURL = 'http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta2.zip'; http://eric.polerecky.com/archives/using-wordpress-automatic-upgrade-to-upgrade-to-27-beta2/ Short and sweet, I had Visual SVN both and AnkhSVN installed. After uninstalling both the problem went away. I was using Visual SVN until the trial ran out. I’m on a clients PC so I can’t install my own copy (boo!) ... http://eric.polerecky.com/archives/visual-studio-the-path-is-not-of-a-legal-form-bug-fixed-for-me/ In the past, when building small web applications with up to a couple concurrent users, I’ve placed the database on the same system as the web server. Blasphemy!!!…not really. You see, knowing that database systems will entirely consume their allocated memory allows for clear capacity planning. ... http://eric.polerecky.com/archives/content-segregation-is-a-bad-idea/ My good friend Jamey’s first blog post is about helping himself. Well…I just did the same on a post about using the ESRI JavaScript API to zoom to a polygon so I thought it best to provide him with a ping back… http://eric.polerecky.com/archives/i-just-can-help-myself/ I started off to make a short list of the ASP.NET MVC sites I use often but it quickly turned into a top 10 list. That is until I realized I only visit 9 ASP.NET MVC related sites on a regular basis. So, here is my Top 9..That ... http://eric.polerecky.com/archives/top-10-aspnet-mvc-links/ Just a quick note…in this tight economy there is a huge opportunity for open source software to enter the public sector. I’d really like to see little changes like these in the public sector. Expectably when the open source software, IMHO, is better then the commercial software. http://eric.polerecky.com/archives/notepad-editpad-pro/ JavaScript Library Overview View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: libraries javascript) http://eric.polerecky.com/archives/thinking-about-the-difference-between-frameworks/ This is how I take advantage of dojo when developing an application that uses the toolkit. First, in the past few months most of the applications I developed have has sparse use of JS with one major exception. Each application has an main “application page” where a bulk ... http://eric.polerecky.com/archives/my-dojo-design-pattern/ First, if you have not heard, Microsoft will be shipping jQuery as part of visual studio. And if the swiftness that the .NET team moves I am sure we can see it in a the next SP. Update: Just re-read the article…The jQuery intellisense annotation support will be available as ... http://eric.polerecky.com/archives/my-take-on-microsoft-shipping-jquery/