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Web Accessibility – The Screenreader Experience Part One. Posted by Brian in Accessibility. October 15th, 2010). IE Web Developer Toolbar? Posted by Brian in Accessibility. April 24th, 2007). There’s a toolbar for Internet Explorer that has many of the same features as Firebug. Visit http:/ www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx? To get a copy of the current beta. To launch it, start IE7 and go to Tools - Toolbars - Explorer Bar - IE DOM explorer. Is XHTML bad for you? Posted by Brian in Accessibility.
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Sharing Vim configs with Mac and Windows using Dropbox. Posted by Brian in Howto. January 27th, 2011). I’m back to using VIm again, after a few years of working with TextMate on the Mac. VIm is great because it works the same on many different platforms, and I jump from Mac to Windows a lot these days. Of course, I assume you have Dropbox and VIm installed on your Mac and Windows machines. I’m not covering any of that setup in this article. Next, we’ll create a master. And place it in your Autoload folder.
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Installing Oracle Client on Ubuntu. Posted by Brian in Rails. May 31st, 2011). Ubuntu isn’t one of the supported operating systems from Oracle, so we have do to some manual work to get things set up. First, we need to create a home for the files we’ll be downloading. Sudo mkdir -p /opt/oracle/11 2 sudo apt-get install libaio1. Then we need to visit Oracle’s download page and grab these three files for the Instant Client for Linux:. Mv instantclient 11 2 /opt/oracle/11 2/instantclient. Next, let’s i...
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Learning Clojure – Baby Steps Towards Readable Code. Posted by Brian in Clojure. October 29th, 2010). One thing that keeps me coming back to trying to learn Clojure is the way the language forces me to think about problems in a different way. To illustrate that, I thought I’d share a simple problem and solution with you. Price (price * 0.055). Let’s break down what we know about Clojure and write this expression. First, we know we can add two numbers together like this:. Defn total [price] ( price (wi ta...
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Learning Clojure – Baby Steps Towards Readable Code. Posted by Brian in Clojure. October 29th, 2010). One thing that keeps me coming back to trying to learn Clojure is the way the language forces me to think about problems in a different way. To illustrate that, I thought I’d share a simple problem and solution with you. Price (price * 0.055). Let’s break down what we know about Clojure and write this expression. First, we know we can add two numbers together like this:. Defn total [price] ( price (wi ta...
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Rails with SSL in Development The Simple Way. Posted by Brian in Rails. July 21st, 2013). To use SSL with Rails, you could set up Apache on your development machine, but that involves a virtual host and a bunch of other bits of configuration. Here’s a dirt simple way. Create a self signed certificate. Force SSL in Rails. Add a host entry. Create a self-signed certificate. We’re going to create a self-signed certificate for the site. In the root of your Rails application, do these commands:. Here's the co...
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Web Accessibility – The Screenreader Experience Part One. Posted by Brian in Accessibility. October 15th, 2010). The Screenreader Experience Part One. I want you to know that I used Twitter in this example because it was on my screen when I started recording. These problems aren’t isolated to Twitter. Many, many sites have similar problems. However, there are three things Twitter could do right now which would have made the experience easier. The takeaway from this is that there are issues that people fa...
