Annoying WOBuilder bug

It is pretty well known that WOBuilder has its share of bugs. My current pet peeve is what it does to xhtml-compliant br tags. To see this for yourself:

  • Add a <br> tag to your component.
  • Switch to the source view and reformat the <br> so it is correctly formatted for xhtml (ie: <br />)
  • Switch back to layout view and select, cut and paste the <br />.
  • Switch to the source view and look at the result. It will look like this: <br /="">

Yuck!

Apple Yorkdale opening Tomorrow?

According to page 5 of todays Metro news, Apple’s Yorkdale store is opening tomorrow (here is a 10MB download of today’s issue).

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This seems to be confirmed by the Yorkdale site as well. Although last time we were there, the store was miles away from completion. Should I line up now?

Update: Yup, looks like the Apple Store is just included in the Yorkville marketing by default. The store is still looks far from completion (along with many of the other "40 new stores").

Changes

I haven’t blogged much recently. I’ve been kinda busy.

I started a new full-time gig (no Codebase is not dead, just scaled back a little), I started riding my bike (10km both ways… uphill) to my new full-time gig (can we say butt pain?), and we’ve been doing a lot of work around the house (Mmmm hiding decrepit plaster work, fun!).

I have a couple of WebObjects articles I want to post, and Dave M has a couple of suggestions for extensions to the Cyrus articles that I should add too.

I just need to figure out how to make the time to write them up.

I won’t however, be talking much about the office. That’s not what this blog is about, and I don’t think it’s a CEA (Career Enhancing Activity) 🙂 But I am working on some cool projects with some cool people. I’m sure some interesting WebObjects techniques (that aren’t full of trade secrets) should fall out of that.

Nifty Corners

This is very slick.

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Rounded corners using CSS and a bit of JavaScript. I read the original article a while back and thought it was cool then too. But now that it supports IE 5.5 + I thinks that maybe I’m gonna need to included it in some of my projects. 🙂