Fan Noise after upgrading to OS X 10.4.7
Every so often, I show up in the office to see that my year-old G5 tower has decided to emulate a jet engine. Overnight, the fans rev up to the maximum, and stay that way
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GoLive’s Javascript IDE
Although I don’t use Adobe GoLive much for day-to-day work, it has certain features that are hard to find anywhere else. One of them is a rather impressive Javascript authoring environment. It gives contextual hints,
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dotProject is the most promising open-source (and free) project management software that I’ve found so far.
There are many small changes that needed to be made to the dotProject interface in order for it to work for my team, though. Chief among them was that all projects be numbered. The “short name” field just wasn’t sufficient to uniquely identify projects. We use project numbers in our workflow, in documents, email, and file systems. The number needs to combine the month and year the project was started with a 4-digit unique number.
The Museum of My Favorite Artists has been updated
The Museum of My Favorite Artists has been updated to the latest version of Gallery, with an improved look and many new features. Stop in, learn about some new artists, leave some comments! Click to
Continue readingReview of MovableType 3.3 so far
I am happy to say that this site has been updated to the latest version of MoveableType with no serious problems at all.
Installation
My old templates all worked. The old database converted without any issues. Overall the basic installation took about 45 minutes, with me being extra careful and backing things up several ways.
Comments are back on!
The new comment features are WONDERFUL. I have turned commenting back ON and someone has already made a genuine comment! I feel like awarding him a prize! Of course there have also been about 150 junk comments, but they were easily disposed of.
About me!
My name is Ellen Meiselman. I work as a web and elearning developer for the University of Michigan Health System. This site serves both as a place to explore my interests and as an extra
Continue readingMissing horizontal scrollbar in Firefox on wide pages
My home page doesn’t show horizontal scrollbars in version 1.5.0.6 of Firefox on the Mac. I’m sorry about that. It is a known bug that has been fixed in a patch that I assume will
Continue readingMinimizing Flash of White on page load
While testing a javascript-heavy frameset-based learning module, users complained bitterly about the white frameset background flashing at them before each page loaded, particularly in IE. A related issue was that graphics were not preloading properly
Continue readingHistory of Israel in a nutshell
A brief summary of the Arab-Israeli conflict for those who don’t have the time to go into the deeper details. Excellent 5 minute Flash presention on the history of Israel
Continue readingCreate multi-sco learning modules using the Reload Editor: Part III
Reload Editor Tutorial Part III – Adding Attributes
- Once you have added some resources, they become available to select in the Referenced elements menu in the Item’s Attributes.
To associate an item with its resource, under Organization, select the item. Its Attributes appear below.
- You may change the item name at the top of the attributes area to the title of the SCO.
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