Blogs

Special Characters Quick Reference

I've had a quick reference table for special characters around for years, and I refer to it pretty often. It includes the HTML entity name, numeric code, and keyboard shortcuts to type the characters on windows and mac, when available. I've posted it on ojctech.com, and hope others find it useful too.

Getting Rid of the @#*%! IE8 Compatibility Button

I had thought that ensuring a Web page was 100% standards-compliant was the way to get rid of the compatibility button that IE8 displays to help you view pages that looked fine in IE7 but don't look so good in its (presumably more exacting) successor, IE8.

OJC iPhone Application

Excerpt from "Local developers adding to iPhones list of apps aplenty"
The News-Gazette, 2/07/10
Christine Des Garennes

You finally got around to asking her out. You landed a sitter for Saturday night.
Your BFF is back in town for one night.

What are you going to do? Music concert? Dance performance? Gallery opening?

Check your iPhone.

Clearing your browser cache (and only the cache)

Internet Explorer 8

   Try "Shift + Ctrl + F5".  If that doesn't work:

   1. Tools and select "Delete Browsing History"
   2. Make sure the "Temporary Internet files" box is checked,
      Click on "Delete"

Internet Explorer 7

   Try "Shift + Ctrl + F5".  If that doesn't work:

Unicode, UTF-8, and All That: A Short Note

I don't know how many times I've heard people conflate UTF-8 with Unicode. I have come to believe that distinguishing these is the first essential step in becoming "internationalization-literate".

ECMAScript Loops Cheatsheet

Note to self:

  • for (var property:String in o:Object)
  • for each (var child:Object in o:Object)
  • for (var i:int in a:Array)
  • for each (var item:* in a:Array)

Project Site Login Changes

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37signals, The provider of our project management sites, is changing how you log in to their systems.

A Better Twitter Interface

The Problem

Screenshot of a typical Twitter post with a short piece of text, such as 'This is earth-shattering', followed by a long meaningless link URL

  • I know and trust the author of this tweet.
  • But from the context and the ugly URL I cannot tell what it is.
  • Guess what...I don't bother clicking.

 

Brandon Bowersox selected as a 40 Under 40 Winner

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Brandon Bowersox 29
Vice president of technology, OJC Technologies

Community involvement:
Urbana City Council member, representing Ward 4, chair of Urbana's Bicycle and Pedestrian advisory commission, advocate for Revitalizing Downtown and Philo Road, board member and teacher at the Computer Learning and Mentoring Center and member of the EDC Tech advisory committee.


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