Monthly Archives: April 2010

Three Invaluable PDF tools

4/8/2010 – 11:03 am

While I’ve never been one to write top n things posts, there are three PDF tools I use routinely that are pretty awesome. The most generally applicable is PDF Creator, which lets you print to PDF on any Windows system. It uses the magic of Open Source ™ internally, essentially ghostscript, to make it happen. [...]

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Alex Leary at St Pete Times furthers Social Security disinformation

4/7/2010 – 9:36 am

Leary disseminates the usual blather. “Many experts” agree with the need to raise the retirement age and reduce benefits. Only one “expert” is quoted, a conservative hack from the American Enterprise Institute, Andrew Biggs. Clearly, Leary is lazy. Many Social Security experts agree that raising the retirement age is one of the solutions that must [...]

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ExtJS Combo, findRecord, and equality

4/5/2010 – 8:43 pm

ExtJS’ implementation of a combo box, ComboBox, is one of the more complicated components provided in all of ExtJS. It glues together TriggerField and DataView to allow for quite a few different uses. If you’re using both a nameField and a valueField, upon setValue a call is placed to findRecord to determine if there’s a [...]

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