Archives May 8, 2004

Need to stop thinking about Lisa's thesis (I'm obviously a sucker for a beautiful woman...)


Have been thinking quite a bit about Lisa's thesis over the last couple of days. No particular reason to do so, after all, she didn't ask me to. The problem is that some part of me looks at the part doing the thinking and says "you are obviously just infatuated with the woman and trying ...

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Simplifying and reducing complexity (Rendering objects into tasks...)


The "webui" system from Cinemon makes it really easy to model a system of objects rapidly, automatically generating a functional interface for manipulating those objects. However, unless you are intimately familiar with the model, it's rather difficult to work with the resulting system. Most of the redesign (beyond simply making the project look better) is ...

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There's no point in Thai food if you're not going to share (3 plates of veggie Pad-Thai is just silly)


Had a pleasant dinner conversation with Dan, XXX and two more of XXX's friends. Went to the Friendly Thai on Eglinton, which is a very nice little place to get good Thai food. However, through some weird vibe @ the start of the meal we wound up not ordering a group meal (which is the ...

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Finally got the columns working (Far too long on this...)


For the record, I wound up having to use a mechanism that works like so:
.leftcolumn {
width: 200px;
max-width: 200px;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: 20;
}
.rightcolumn {
background-color: #ffffff;
display: block;
margin-left: 199px;
}

Which eliminates the rather annoying overflow in the left margin (visually it goes "under" ...

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