Archive for the ‘blurps’ Category

eboran – esrevni

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Today I wrote a quick funny script that inverses the text in all the text nodes on a page. I think it’s funny enough to release it:

function fcc_text_reverse(e){
	var j=(e.childNodes)?e.childNodes.length:0;
	for(var i=0;i<j;i++){
		var n=e.childNodes[i];
		if(n.nodeType==1){fcc_text_reverse(n);}
		else if(n.nodeType==3){
			n.nodeValue=n.nodeValue.split('').reverse().join('');
		}
	}
};
fcc_text_reverse(document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]);

You can also use the favelet / bookmarklet — just drag Reverse text to bookmarks.

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Form design

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

While trying to buy Luke Wroblewski’s book at Rosenfeld Media I had to create a new account. I filled out the form and submitted it but it didn’t go through. The message it gave was:

You did not complete all of the required fields before submitting information. Fields missing data are highlighted. Please try again.

The thing is none of the fields were highlighted. This means that after scanning the form I just resubmitted it and of course I got the error message again. After the second try I went through the form field by field and found out that I have to select “Not Applicable” for the “State” field if I’m not in US or Canada. Why is empty different from “Not Applicable”?

By the way — the book I was buying is called Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks :)

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Leaving Parsek

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

After quite a few years devoted to growing and developing Parsek I’ve come to the end of this very interesting and challenging project. I decided to continue my career elsewhere.

New challenges lie ahead and I will delve into them with everything I have.

Futura’s 10th party

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Yesterday I was a guest at the Futura’s 10th agency of the year award party. I won’t go into the details of the party, I’ll focus on the gift that I received when leaving. Posting the pictures of unboxing below.

The box
It’s out
Packaged
Butterfly?
More foam
I hope it wasn’t alive
Either it was or it’s a good fake

I really hope this butterfly wasn’t alive one day. I really don’t think it would fit well into the whole “eco” scheme.

Upgraded

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

WordPress's administration interfaceImage via WikipediaI’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 and some stuff doesn’t work – all the stuff I hacked together myself obviously. Fortunately all the plugins work normally – what you currently can’t see are the links in the sidebar and the list of categories in the dropdown. I hope I can sort these out soon…

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The times, they are changing

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

This is really overwhelming. (via Simon Willison)