Maneki Maggie
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2012/02/25/maneki-maggie/
. . . inviting food . . .
Cat-O-Clock
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2012/02/17/cat-o-clock/
On days I Work From Home, Maggie enforces her mandated 3pm Pet-the-Cat break.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2012/02/25/maneki-maggie/
. . . inviting food . . .
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2012/02/17/cat-o-clock/
On days I Work From Home, Maggie enforces her mandated 3pm Pet-the-Cat break.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2012/02/08/derr/
From an email to colleagues:
Yesterday I got Dr Sick Wife to drop me off at the Santa Clara Convention Center so Mr Sicker Light-Headed Husband wouldn’t miss any PYCON. After an awkward twenty minutes of asking people there for the lighting and LED conference where the Python was, I checked my smart phone and noted that … PYCON is *MARCH* 7th.
So I took the light rail home and told $BOSS I was on PTO (well, I call it MLK day due to Puppet Training) I then slept a lot, and did other things sick people do that don’t bear repeating in a professional context, and watched Dr Who save the Earth on TV, slept some more, and I am feeling way better today, which means I feel regular sick, not super sick.
So, I’ll be WFH today. Trust me, whatever this is, you’re lucky to miss out! I don’t normally get sick so this is a novel experience … I’ll likely be seen in the office next week, though if I’m coughy or sneezy I’ll keep that train wreck at home, because, as you might gather, you don’t want a piece of this!
If you’re attending PyCon, I look forward to seeing you there … next month! Hopefully I won’t be light-headed!
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2012/01/24/happy-lunar-new-year/
Hello Kitty ♥s Beard Papa’s.
As seen in Cupertino, CA.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/12/10/nobody-uses-the-post-office-any-more/
Especially in Mountain View, CA, the heart of the Silicon Valley.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/12/08/ask-osama/
Hell yeah, my man is going to play the bin Laden card!
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/11/28/seatbeltbear/
Stuffed Polar Bear demonstrates proper airplane safety procedure.
This is the passenger who had the middle seat on my flight back from Chicago yesterday.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/11/23/is-cloudflare-saving-me-money/
I was poking around my CloudFlare Control Panel, and pulled up stats for the past month, from Oct 11 to Nov 11. It says it had blocked a bunch of attacks on my site, and consequently saved me over 5GB in bandwidth.
I said to myself, "I pay for bandwidth! Maybe this free service is saving me money?!"
“Really,” I said, “I pay for bandwidth, so if CloudFlare is saving me bandwidth, it is saving me money!”
But 5GB seemed kind of high. So, I checked my invoices from RackSpace. Here is the outbound bandwidth I have been charged for this year:
Invoice Date Bandwidth Out 11/11 4.660 GB 10/11 4.972 GB 09/11 7.534 GB 08/11 5.467 GB 07/11 6.402 GB 06/11 5.978 GB 05/11 4.694 GB 04/11 6.294 GB 03/11 6.254 GB 02/11 9.652 GB 01/11 7.117 GB
RackSpace charges me on the 11th of the month, and, conveniently enough, I started using CloudFlare around October 11th. The highlighted line above is my first month on CloudFlare. It is my lowest number of the year, and it is conceivable that I could have totaled 9.5 GB in October since I pushed more than that in February. I’m skeptical that they are saving me as much as they claim to be, but for a free service to speed up my web site and save me even a little money . . . that is a good deal in my book!
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/11/07/duck-pond/
Sneaking through an apartment complex I came upon this wall of water and a dozen or more ducks enjoying the pond.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/11/02/leaving-la/
I get Mei back from the land of endless highways this evening.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/27/halloween-office-party/
I am not clear as to whether a Christmas theme was planned by these folks or if things just came together.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/25/javascript-hack-hide-an-element-on-a-page/
JIRA is an issue tracking system that is really flexible, but sometimes presents irritatingly arbitrary limitations.
I have been working on a screen which uses multiple tabs. The tabs are there to make it easier for the user to find the fields they want to edit, without scrolling through a single long, complex issue. But every tab has a Comment field rendered on it, which makes things confusing, and makes each tab look like it needs scrolling.
So, just remove the Comment field from the Screen, right? No, it isn’t in there. So, can I remove Comment via the Field Configuration Scheme? No, it is mandatory. Damn your arbitrary limitation, JIRA!
Anyway, I don’t normally speak JavaScript, but I managed to gin up the following snippet to paste into a Field description which appears in the screen I wanted to tweak. It finds the element containing the Comment, and sets its style display attribute to none. As the page loads, the Comment box is rendered, but once the page load completes, the Comment box disappears.
It is ugly, but effective. Also, it is helpful for me to learn JavaScript!
PS: Thanks for the Guidance, Ed Burns!
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/21/hawaiian-airlines/
In the morning fog, my ride to tropical sunshine waits.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/21/yahoo-urls-cafe/
It is a little thrill to query Google Maps for “yahoo urls” — URLs is the name of one of their cafeterias, where I am right now for a Meetup.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/10/14/leaving-on-a-jet-plane/
Flying down to LAX to visit the wife. I booked at the last minute which means I paid a bit more for Main Cabin Select on an otherwise full flight. That means I get to go through security in the short line and board the plane first. A good start to the weekend and time enough to post a photo.
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