Spaghetti Tom

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

a modern HTML head tag for a mobile app

<html lang="en">
   <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8">
      <meta name="viewport" content="width=480,initial-scale=1,maximum-
            scale=1,minimum-scale=1,user-scalable=no"/>
      <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
      <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black-translucent" />
      <title>AntMill</title>
   </head>

Fatal error: Unable to find local grunt.

This grunt error when unexpected and run from a command line at a folder where it should work...

...means you need to run this command again to reinstall:

npm install

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

'onClick' of object [object Object] is not a function

Getting this error when using dojox.mobile.ListItem likely means you need to change something like this:

<li data-dojo-type="dojox.mobile.ListItem"
data-dojo-props="clickable:true, onClick:this.app.openView(null,{target:'Something'})"
>Whatever</li>

...to something like this:

<li data-dojo-type="dojox.mobile.ListItem"
   data-dojo-props="clickable:true, app: this.app, onClick:function()
         {this.app.openView(null,{target:'Something'})}"
   >Whatever</li>

top level domains

http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt today has the following list of top level domains which is always growing:

AC
ACADEMY
AD
AE
AERO
AF
AG
AGENCY
AI
AL
AM
AN
AO
AQ
AR
ARPA
AS
ASIA
AT
AU
AW
AX
AZ
BA
BARGAINS
BB
BD
BE
BERLIN
BF
BG
BH
BI
BIKE
BIZ
BJ
BM
BN
BO
BOUTIQUE
BR
BS
BT
BUILD
BUILDERS
BUZZ
BV
BW
BY
BZ
CA
CAB
CAMERA
CAMP
CAREERS
CAT
CC
CD
CENTER
CEO
CF
CG
CH
CHEAP
CI
CK
CL
CLOTHING
CLUB
CM
CN
CO
CODES
COFFEE
COM
COMMUNITY
COMPANY
COMPUTER
CONSTRUCTION
CONTRACTORS
COOL
COOP
CR
CU
CV
CW
CX
CY
CZ
DANCE
DATING
DE
DEMOCRAT
DIAMONDS
DIRECTORY
DJ
DK
DM
DO
DOMAINS
DZ
EC
EDU
EDUCATION
EE
EG
EMAIL
ENTERPRISES
EQUIPMENT
ER
ES
ESTATE
ET
EU
EXPERT
FARM
FI
FJ
FK
FLORIST
FM
FO
FR
GA
GALLERY
GB
GD
GE
GF
GG
GH
GI
GIFT
GL
GLASS
GM
GN
GOV
GP
GQ
GR
GRAPHICS
GS
GT
GU
GUITARS
GURU
GW
GY
HK
HM
HN
HOLDINGS
HOLIDAY
HOUSE
HR
HT
HU
ID
IE
IL
IM
IMMOBILIEN
IN
INFO
INSTITUTE
INT
INTERNATIONAL
IO
IQ
IR
IS
IT
JE
JM
JO
JOBS
JP
KAUFEN
KE
KG
KH
KI
KIM
KITCHEN
KIWI
KM
KN
KP
KR
KW
KY
KZ
LA
LAND
LB
LC
LI
LIGHTING
LIMO
LINK
LK
LR
LS
LT
LU
LUXURY
LV
LY
MA
MANAGEMENT
MARKETING
MC
MD
ME
MENU
MG
MH
MIL
MK
ML
MM
MN
MO
MOBI
MODA
MONASH
MP
MQ
MR
MS
MT
MU
MUSEUM
MV
MW
MX
MY
MZ
NA
NAGOYA
NAME
NC
NE
NET
NF
NG
NI
NINJA
NL
NO
NP
NR
NU
NZ
OM
ONL
ORG
PA
PE
PF
PG
PH
PHOTO
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOS
PICS
PINK
PK
PL
PLUMBING
PM
PN
POST
PR
PRO
PS
PT
PW
PY
QA
RE
RECIPES
RED
REPAIR
RICH
RO
RS
RU
RUHR
RW
SA
SB
SC
SD
SE
SEXY
SG
SH
SHIKSHA
SHOES
SI
SINGLES
SJ
SK
SL
SM
SN
SO
SOCIAL
SOLAR
SOLUTIONS
SR
ST
SU
SUPPORT
SV
SX
SY
SYSTEMS
SZ
TATTOO
TC
TD
TECHNOLOGY
TEL
TF
TG
TH
TIENDA
TIPS
TJ
TK
TL
TM
TN
TO
TODAY
TOKYO
TOOLS
TP
TR
TRAINING
TRAVEL
TT
TV
TW
TZ
UA
UG
UK
UNO
US
UY
UZ
VA
VC
VE
VENTURES
VG
VI
VIAJES
VN
VOTING
VOYAGE
VU
WANG
WATCH
WED
WF
WIEN
WORKS
WS
XN--3BST00M
XN--3DS443G
XN--3E0B707E
XN--45BRJ9C
XN--55QW42G
XN--55QX5D
XN--6QQ986B3XL
XN--80AO21A
XN--80ASEHDB
XN--80ASWG
XN--90A3AC
XN--CLCHC0EA0B2G2A9GCD
XN--FIQ228C5HS
XN--FIQ64B
XN--FIQS8S
XN--FIQZ9S
XN--FPCRJ9C3D
XN--FZC2C9E2C
XN--GECRJ9C
XN--H2BRJ9C
XN--IO0A7I
XN--J1AMH
XN--J6W193G
XN--KPRW13D
XN--KPRY57D
XN--L1ACC
XN--LGBBAT1AD8J
XN--MGB9AWBF
XN--MGBA3A4F16A
XN--MGBAAM7A8H
XN--MGBAYH7GPA
XN--MGBBH1A71E
XN--MGBC0A9AZCG
XN--MGBERP4A5D4AR
XN--MGBX4CD0AB
XN--NGBC5AZD
XN--O3CW4H
XN--OGBPF8FL
XN--P1AI
XN--PGBS0DH
XN--Q9JYB4C
XN--S9BRJ9C
XN--UNUP4Y
XN--WGBH1C
XN--WGBL6A
XN--XKC2AL3HYE2A
XN--XKC2DL3A5EE0H
XN--YFRO4I67O
XN--YGBI2AMMX
XN--ZFR164B
XXX
YE
YT
ZA
ZM
ZONE
ZW

Monday, February 3, 2014

.attr('style'); will behave badly in Internet Explorer!

var bar = $("#Foo").attr('style');
if (bar == 'display:block;') {

Per this the above will not work in IE and I can attest that as much is true. The better jQuery to use is:

if ($("#Foo").css('display') == 'block') {

Sunday, February 2, 2014

I'm playing with Inkscape for the first time this morning.

Ctrl-Shift-C seems to convert to text into what would be called "curves" (paths) in Adobe Illustrator.
Cario doesn't support CMYK and as Cario is used by Inkscape for rending... there are no CMYK features. :(
Ctrl-Shift-D followed by a navigation to the "Color Management" tab of the dialog box which appears takes one to a place for managing color swatches, but who cares? There are no Pantone colors.

Saturday, February 1, 2014

JavaScript "code behinds" in ASP.NET MVC applications.

At an ASP.NET MVC application, let's say you have a .cshtml view at /Views/Aardvark/AardvarkCountingWidget.cshtml. Let's also suppose that AardvarkCountingWidget.cshtml has a bunch of jQuery in it inside a script tag and you eventually wish to pull it out to a .js file. Well, I suppose that .js file could go at /Scripts/AardvarkCountingWidget.js, but what if it instead accompanied /Views/Aardvark/AardvarkCountingWidget.cshtml by living at /Views/Aardvark/AardvarkCountingWidget.js? In this convention a .cshtml file will have, if applicable, a .js "code behind" of the same name in the same folder. This is sort of like the code behinds of web forms... Mmmmm, maybe that's a stretch. Anyhow, this idea came from Joel Holder and it was going on at the AMD application I was a part of. That was an MVC3 project. /Views/Web.config prevents you from touching content inside of the Views folder in later versions of MVC save for using .cshtml views in the very different than usual way in Razor. So how do you allow access to .js files in the Views folder? Great question. I did it by removing everything between <httpHandlers> and </httpHandlers> and also between <handlers> and </handlers> at /Views/Web.config!