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Comment on If Browsers Were Women… by Dr Saxe

Dr Saxe — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:42:48 +0000

I can’t believe that I am the only one to make a comment on your comparisons here. I thoroughly enjoyed them, made a lot of sense and made this old man grin for a moment or two.
Respectfully,
Dr Saxe

Comment on Creating New Accounts in PostgreSQL by Ashesh

Ashesh — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:20:59 +0000

Great post! Was very helpful to me!

Comment on Install phpPgAdmin on Ubuntu 7.10 by Switching Rails to PostgreSQL « OLM On Rails

Switching Rails to PostgreSQL « OLM On Rails — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:22:42 +0000

[…] but phppgadmin is better than nothing at all. Assuming you have PHP and apache2 installed, install phppgadmin by […]

Comment on Install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 8.04 by nanung

nanung — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:10:02 +0000

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Comment on Install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 8.04 by bedjo

bedjo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:23:04 +0000

thx a lot. its very useful. I have tried it in ubuntu 7.10 and installed successfully. I use posgresql v8.2. keep the good work!

Comment on Install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 8.04 by Willie Kuo

Willie Kuo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:35:29 +0000

Thank you a log. It’s very useful.

I’m sorry for the typo “log” (correct word: lot).

Comment on Install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 8.04 by Willie Kuo

Willie Kuo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:32:57 +0000

Thank you a log. It’s very useful.

Comment on Installing R/BioConductor on Ubuntu 8.04 by James Ward

James Ward — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:31:00 +0000

I wanted to add a small enhancement to the instructions noted above. The instructions are correct as written, but the Ubuntu repositories do not have the latest production release of R, which may be required for your analysis work. For example, R-2.6.2 is available today from Ubuntu, but R-2.7.1 is available from CRAN. This change would prevent someone from using the latest Bioconductor version 2.3, which requires R-2.7.

Here is the reference:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README
The key step is the addition of the R-mirror which overrides the Ubuntu repository, and provides access to the latest production release. I used:
http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/hardy/

Hope this information helps someone!

Comment on Default Text Field Values That Disappear on Focus by Daz

Daz — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:09:23 +0000

This could be made simpler by assigning a custom property to the object in the DOM. I’ve called it “defaultValue”. Does not address the colour change, but again, it could be assigned as a custom property if necessary.

Ta! That’s just a little more concise, great example.

Comment on Default Text Field Values That Disappear on Focus by Andy

Andy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:00:23 +0000

Even better, defaultValue is already part of the DOM. I always forget that… So here is a more slimline jQuery powered version

$('input[type="text"]').focus(function() {
  this.value = '';
});
$('input[type="text"]').blur(function() {
  if (this.value == '') this.value = (this.defaultValue ? this.defaultValue : '');
});