External Javascript Resources in Ionic Applications

Fun Fact: If you're using an externally referenced Javascript file in your Ionic browser, it will 404 out due to the default content policy on Android phones. This happened to me recently while I was working on an app that uses the Google Maps API to geocode locations. Running the app in your browser...

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Error opening file '{{path}}/difftar.gpg': Input/output error

While using Ubuntu's built-in backup tool, which uses Duplicity, I recently got the following error: Backup failed Error opening file '/media/yoshee/FreeAgent Drive/Backup/duplicity-full.20140514T064948Z.vol2132.difftar.gpg': Input/output error After some research, I discovered that the best way...

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ASP.NET UserControl.Visible = true failing

Today I came across a situation where I was trying to set an ASP.NET UserControl to be Control.Visible = true, and try as I might, the call was failing. Here's what I did in the immediate window in Visual Studio. MyControl.Visible = true;MyControl.Visible; // output: false;I almost bashed my head against...

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Takeaways: Tuesdays with Morrie

I recently read Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. Apparently, it's a bit of a staple in the American education system, but I hadn't read it until now. My initial thoughts are thus: in one sense it was a bit of a rehash - most of the ideas Albom brought up are already familiar. However, he brought...

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Takeaways: The Healthy Programmer

I recently picked up The Healthy Programmer by Joe Kutner. The 8+ hours of programming are beginning to take their toll on my health with various headaches/eyeaches, so I wanted to see if Joe had any...

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A Story about YAGNI - You-Aren't-Going-To-Need-It

Recently I was working for a project on a client where they wanted the project to be Live for a certain portion of time during the day - so for example between 9AM and 2PM, or 12PM and 3PM, or so on and so forth. While implementing this feature, a thought struck me - what if the client wanted to have...

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Postback not happening on ASP:LinkButton with Adblock Plus

I recently had a problem while working on an ASP.NET website where I had a page doing a postback on an ASP LinkButton, except in FireFox with AdBlock enabled, the postback just wasn't happening. Clicking on the button resulted in nothing. When I examined the markup on the page it looked like this: <a...

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