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I often write about the work I create, and sometimes write about the tools I use to create it, but I have never told you how I integrate my Mac with our Windows office (small O). What is the right way™?To do this, I use Parallels, which is a fantastic tool, and have recently been [...]

There are no CSS hacks that can get equal-sized columns, so I wrote this tiny bit of Javascript to do the work for you. Simply add a class of “column” to any <div>s and their heights will match when the page loads.

function matchColumns()
{
var columns = $A($$(’div.column’));
var column_height = 0;
var max_height = 0;
columns.each(function(column)
{
column_height = column.getHeight();
max_height = [...]

It’s amazing!
The MacBook Pro that Vuture bought me is incredible. The whole machine flies (not literally, obviously) and running Windows in real-time alongside OS X is such a boon.
If you have the money, I would definitely recommend that you buy one of these beasts.

Earlier I wrote about prototype and script.aculo.us. I’ve been using it even more at work, and really, really like it.
Who wants to write document.getElementById(”searchbox”); when you can write $(’searchbox’);And Ajax; how could it be easier to make an Ajax request than new Ajax.Request()Exactly, it couldn’t.

The prototype javascript library is one of the most brilliant, time-saving tools a web developer can use. It’s so easy to use this in conjunction with script.aculo.us to create some user-friendly “drag-and-drog reordering elements with auto-save” to a page.
I’ve used it in a giant database-driven application we’re developing, and it has helped to trim hours [...]

For years now I’ve had chopter.com, the domain with nothing to do. We have collectively decided at work to try Ruby on Rails for a bit, so I have enabled RoR on chopter to see what it can do.
I’m thinking a To Do list of some description.
Also, Locomotive for OS X looks like it could [...]