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Been A Long Time Since I Rock and Rolled

Posted Wed, 02/24/2010 - 3:34pm by jessie

Lately I have shifted a lot of my focus from computers, technology, and blogging to cars, music, guitar, and girls (holy dates, Bat Man!). Ill try to update my blog with some of the car projects I've been working on (video of rebuilding a starter, etc.), some musical theories and songs I've written. Needless to say, I am always working on something. I'll just start being more active with my postings on what I've done.

 

The Kynetx watchDOM Function

Posted Fri, 01/29/2010 - 12:44pm by jessie

Working with AJAX pages on other peoples web sites can be a pain. Especially when using and creating Kynetx applications which can run on a plethora of web sites. When designing things for AJAX pages there is an "undocumented" javascript function which we use. It's name is watchDOM. It resides within the KOBJ object and has the function signature "KOBJ.watchDOM(selector,callback);". This function monitors a DOM element which you specify for changes. When it detects a change, it then runs a callback function.

 

Selector Detector

Posted Fri, 01/22/2010 - 6:32pm by jessie

At my current place of occupation, Kynetx, we use jQuery extensively. One of the strangest, most difficult parts of learning how to use jQuery, in my opinion, is using "selectors." Selectors are jQuery's way of selecting elements within the DOM to alter, add, delete, store, etc. Makes sense, right? Seems easy enough, yes?

Spot a want or need and fill it!

Posted Mon, 01/11/2010 - 12:13pm by jessie

I recently saw a trailer for Lego Universe at Joystiq. The game looks pretty freaking sweet! If you have never played any of the Lego Games which have come out recently, namely Lego Star Wars, Lego Batman and Lego Indiana Jones, I urge you to go and purchase one. Right now. I kid you not, this game is one of the greatest series ever. It has humor, violence (no blood), story, and no talking. These games are some of the best ever. But why?

Don't Get Lazy!

Posted Sat, 01/09/2010 - 1:53pm by jessie

As a new blogger, I've been keeping track of things which have either helped or hurt me as a blogger. One big thing that I have noticed is a large decline in traffic as I stop posting.

As a blogger, you have to consistantly blog. Every week, day, hour, or whatever other time interval you choose. The longest time I reccomend, however, is a week. Anything longer and people stop caring or remembering about you. A week is just long enough that people don't get sick of you, but short enough that they remember who you are. Keep this in mind as you go about your blogging.

ADD People Have Poor Interrupt Handling

Posted Fri, 01/08/2010 - 6:19pm by jessie

 

Improving Your Search Engine

Posted Wed, 12/16/2009 - 5:33pm by jessie

UPDATE: Added the Firefox Plugin!

UPDATE: Added the Chrome Plugin!

UPDATE: Added a search button to Gmail

Nearly every single soul reading this post uses Google. Everybody tries to beat Google. Yahoo and Bing are it's biggest competitors. I'm not here to discuss that, though. Instead, I want to talk about my improvements to Google, Yahoo, and Bing that I want everyone to see.

Oh the importance of 3 letters...

Posted Wed, 12/09/2009 - 9:58pm by jessie

I do a lot of things. Just ask anyone who knows me. They all know that I'm pretty knowledgable in just about any feild, situation, etc. Granted, there are things that I do not know about. I'll be the first to admit that. I do know enough to get by on lots of things though. I can repair cars (which I'm pretty good at, actually), do plumbing, electrical, carpentry, sys admining, antiquing, programming, and lots of other random stuff. My most recent problem, however, was with the sys admin part of my life.

Why I Use Twitter

Posted Tue, 11/24/2009 - 2:59pm by jessie

While I was at the Kynetx Christmas party, my boss' wife asked me, "I want to understand this Twitter thing. Why do you use it?" I answered her question and thought that I'd post my response here.

There are two main reasons why I use Twitter.

The Danger of Link Shortening

Posted Mon, 11/23/2009 - 12:38pm by jessie

Bit.ly, tinyurl.com, and many other places have started up link shortening which is usefull for Twitter, telling people over the phone, etc. But what it makes difficult is the fact that you have no idea where that link is really pointing to. As we can see from this post here, there are dangers with the way that Mozilla handles URI's. You could exploit those dangerous problems with a shortened link, and nobody would ever be the wiser.