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using the parent() function in e4x epressions and actionscript to create complex queries.

Let's say you have the following xml for greeting cards. <designlist> <design id="123" title="Happy Hanukkah" previewImageUrl="assets/demo/images/g0022_4x6h_preview.jpg" thumbImageUrl=""> <tags> <tag id='1231'>Holiday</tag> <tag id='3242'>Hanukkah</tag> </tags> </design>   <design id="456" title="Happy New Year" previewImageUrl="assets/demo/images/g0412_4x6h_preview.jpg" thumbImageUrl=""> <tags> <tag id='1231'>Holiday</tag> <tag id='2342'>New Year</tag> </tags> </design>   <design id="8284" title="Merry Xmas" previewImageUrl="assets/demo/images/g0256_4x6v_preview.jpg" thumbImageUrl=""> <tags> <tag id='1231'>Holiday</tag> <tag id='3242'>XMas</tag> <tag id='8323'>Christmas</tag> </tags> ...

Changing the default setting for del.icio.us bookmarks app to Do Not Share

When I tag a page using del.icio.us, I always have to click "do not share" if I don't want the link showing up on facebook and elsewhere. Annoying! This can be changed. Open firefox. Type in about:config into the address bar. Right click anywhere on the page. From the menu that appears, select New->Interger. It ...

Subversion integration with Active Reload’s wonderful Lighthouse Issue Tracking site.

I realize this post is probably not as interesting as integrating Lighthouseapp with GIT but I thought I would jot down a couple of notes. There is a great script that shows you how to set up subversion with lighthouse here: http://www.lighthouseapp.com/help/setting-up-subversion-integration The documentation is sufficient, but too sparse for my tastes. Here's ...

creating control arrays with qcodo

Lately I've been playing around with the qcodo framework. There's a lot of things to love about qcodo, but the 4 or 5 lines of code required to put together a single control is not one of them. For instance, if I wanted to create a text box on a page. ...

what is this all about?

So I've been wanting, for some time now, to put together a blog, the sole purpose of which is to record my geeky finds from around the internet. Others have saved me countless hours by posting their solutions, I just want to give something back. My plan here is to not ...

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    • phil g — Actually I was wrong there. If I put 'print "123"' req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path) req.basic_auth token, 'x' # t...
    • John — I'd like to do the same thing on a different site. Can you explain how you worked out the "ybookmarks@yahoo.sharemode" bit ...
    • Greg K. — I know this is an old post, but for anyone trying to read it and figure out e4x, the reason why you need a tag before () is b...
    • John — Works great on FF 3.6.6 on the Mac - Many thanks :)...
    • phil g — I'm trying to set this up but nothing I do seems to work. I did everything just like you said and the lighthouse.rb runs all...