2007

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TurboTax Browser Validation

By barneyb on February 23, 2007

I've used TurboTax Online to do my taxes for a number of years now, and quite like it.Â This year, I noticed one really well-designed feature: browser validation.
If you've never used the app, the client side is a very js/css/remoting heavy HTML interface.Â It's probably the best RIAs I've used, and it's been of that [...]

Posted in development

cf.objective 2007 Session Listing

By barneyb on February 23, 2007

Jared has posted a partial cf.objective 2007 session listing on the conference site.

Posted in aside

Ajax (sigh) Pet Peeve

By barneyb on February 16, 2007

I've finally given up and added 'ajax' to my vocabulary as a synonym for "JS remoting".Â But I've got a bone to pick with people building ajax apps: neat UI trickery has to leave the UI in a consistent state or you're making the UI worse instead of better.
The particular example that is continually annoying [...]

Posted in ajax

WordPress Upgrade

By barneyb on February 11, 2007

Just applied WordPress 2.1 to the blog, with basically no issues, which is awesome.Â Also, as you can see, I've switched to a Mollio-based layout, rather than the WordPress-specific on that I was using before.Â That'll let me skin the site (along with the various other ones I multi-host) with just CSS, rather than having [...]

Posted in meta

SVNKit Command Line Client

By barneyb on January 10, 2007

With the advent of Subversion 1.4, the working copy meta data changed, which means you can't mix 1.4 clients with earlier clients. Not a huge deal, in general, but I ran into it because I much prefer Subclipse 1.2 to 1.0, and 1.2 uses the Subversion 1.4 working copy structure, but CentOS packages a [...]