Did you know that if you’ve got Firebug for Firefox installed, you can use it for debugging your own code? By calling

console.log("Here's a message!");

Firebug will print the message to it’s internal message log. Neat!

Now, that’s all good. But let’s say you’re on a project that’s not using a Javascript preprocessor to minify and strip debugging […]

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Tim on November 25th, 2008

Buy American wine. Drink it on your American yacht. Read Forbes for instructions on how to spend your money. Eat American caviar. Stuff hundreds into tip jars when you go get coffee. Read the “Most Expensive” blog for ideas on how to support the economy. We’ve got to keep our economy going, and since […]

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Here’s a tip for developing Firefox Extensions in FF3.
You might have heard of the Extension Developer’s Extension (EDE). EDE is an extension that provides useful settings and features for people who are writing their own extensions. For example, EDE makes it easy to activate Javascript debug settings, interactively debug Javascript, and a few other goodies.
My […]

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Tim on November 16th, 2008

“Mr. Obama has, for at least brief moments, been forced offline. As he sat down with a small circle of advisers to prepare for debates with Senator John McCain, one rule was quickly established: No BlackBerrys. Mr. Axelrod ordered everyone to put their devices in the center of a table during work sessions. Mr. Obama, […]

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Tim on November 13th, 2008

Recently I posted some ideas about the characteristics of codes, specifically the codes used to identify the President. Most of it was theorizing on my part.
“…this code has to be easily spoken via phone. No doubt, you’d like a certain about of uniqueness. Also, it should be something that could be understood when spoken over […]

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Tim on November 13th, 2008

Turns out that Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch wasn’t really groundbreaking. For it’s time, maybe. But it turns out that there’s a similar joke from the 4th century in Greece.
…a joke where a man complains that a slave he was sold had died.
“When he was with me, he never did any such thing!” is the […]

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Tim on November 11th, 2008

I read an article on H-1B visas in the Harvard Business Review, and there was an interesting point made that I wanted to share.
Multinationals, desperate to fill technical positions, have been seeking alternatives to the use of H-1Bs. A solution that’s growing in popularity is intracompany transfer visas, which allow a firm to bring an […]

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Tim on November 11th, 2008

New Point of Order: Ignore previous Point of Order.
You don’t need to update RSS anything. There’s a plugin that handles everything for WordPress forwarding to Feedburner.
I think the moral here is to ask Google before you do anything. [edit: Turns out I had an email in my inbox from Greg telling me that this plugin […]

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Tim on November 10th, 2008

Point of order: At Greg’s suggestion, I’ve started using Feedburner for my RSS. You should update your RSS readers with the new URL.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MrRosenblattTheBlog

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Tim on November 9th, 2008

If you’ve ever lost a cell phone, you know how much of a pain in the ass it can be. I’ve definitely lost and damaged phones. Just ask Dan.
I was looking at some papers from a credit card company I use, and realized that they will reimburse me if my phone is lost or stolen.
I […]

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