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  • Found some Gtk/Ruby signal stuff.

    (For gtk2+ruby, I used the Windows installer package) For some reason, I'm trying to learn a portable language/toolkit. First, I had to find the correct signal to connect to.  Looks like focus_out_event is it. currentMileage.signal_connect("focus_out_event") {   mileagePerDay.text=((targetMileage.text.to_f  – currentMileage.text.to_f)    /(Time.parse(targetDate.text)-Time.now)*3600*24).to_s} signal_connect vs signal_connect_after…  apparently, improper usage of signal_connect (for "focus_out_event") will generate the…

  • I remember the good old days of domain squatting

    At least you had to pony up a few bucks per domain name back then.  Now there's Twitter squatting.  It's fairly predictable, really…  Every single letter TwitID is taken.  Common surnames…  taken.  Common words…  taken.  Apparently, you don't even need to use a legitimate or at least legitimately unique e-mail address to do it.

  • Classic Blogger and PHP?

    A question via e-mail: I stumbled upon your blog: http://developernotes.thomaspowell.comWhat I noticed – and it's something that I wanted also – is that your blogpages are all ending in .php, even your individual blogpost pages (http://developernotes.thomaspowell.com/2008/10/remember-milk-is-on-twitter.php) How do you do that in settings? I can only get the index page to end as PHP. The…