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damovisa

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About damovisa

Www.damianbrady.com.au

Recent public activity

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    Comment #4184799

    Nice post. :) I tend to find writing (or explaining) for other people and doing it for yourself blend. A lot. The old adage that you don't truly understand something unless you can…

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    Comment #3406642

    I read a little way into the article to see whether he'd explain the lack of axis labels or just how the graph maps to anything real. Nope. The article is reasonable but the loops …

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    Comment #2385794

    My last interview process was intense: 1. A write-a-document test. I was given a fairly simple (contrived) scenario over the phone and was asked to write specs and a deployment pla…

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    Comment #1837682

    I went to the site, and I had to watch the video twice before I got it. Ok, it's a not really a social network like Facebook (that's what I immediately think when I hear social net…

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    Comment #1506937

    The screens are a bit hit and miss for me. The alarm clock, music player, and bottom half of the home screen (messages) are beautiful. The top half of the home screen (weather and …

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    Comment #1379113

    Ditto. I have no idea what I'm supposed to be looking at.

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    Comment #1194859

    personally, I find this more than ok: for (int i=0; i<items.length; i++) { //do something small with items[i] }

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    Comment #1183223

    Ok, I've forced a refresh and here's an update :) 1. No worries - Chrome is "5.0.342.2 dev", and FF is 3.5.8 2. Yep, it's working for me in FF now. Still not in Chrome, btw. 3. Yes…

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    Comment #1183173

    Looks good - nice idea, but I had a couple of problems using it... I think it's still a bit buggy: 1. Doesn't seem to work in Chrome? I get no results no matter what I do. 2. Check…

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    Comment #1152594

    Continuing to hack away at my Footy Tipping site... the start of the season is casting demonic shadows over my shoulder...

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    Using jQuery for evil

    jQuery isn't just good for nice, pretty front ends. Sometimes it can be useful for cleaning up horrible html.

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    Comment #786633

    I don't think it's fair to just say "get rid of the ads". You should always be able to monetize your site somehow... That said, they are a bit invasive... That might be solved with…

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    Comment #786627

    I gotta admit, this is pretty awesome. I wasn't sure about how well it would work but I was pleasantly surprised. Great work! I'll be using this for sure!

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    Comment #608146

    The author seems to be completely ignoring the fact that sometimes navigation SHOULD be one-way only. If the link or button you've clicked on makes a change on the server that affe…

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    Comment #603074

    Wow, that actually sounds awesome to me!

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    Comment #599214

    www.clickatell.com This is the service we decided on at my old job. Our only difficulties were that we're based in Australia. The messages were sometimes slightly delayed (not by m…

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    Comment #599133

    C#, VB6 (maintenance), and PHP. My big stumbling block is foreach loops: foreach (int i in myInts) { ... } For Each i As Integer In myInts ... Next foreach ($myInts as $i) { ... }