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	Sunday, September 29, 2002

Todo: Partition Shuffle

Just found another good list of resources by Al Mac: PC WinTel Resources. Here is a problem with my wintel that needs solving:

I have two physical drives: drive #0 and drive #1. My pc which I bought in 1998 came with a 6-gig physical drive and Windows NT 4.0. For some reason that I no longer remember, I thought it would be cool to partition drive #0 such that the OS would be on the first partition (logical drive C:, 2 gigs) and all remaining apps & docs would go on the second partition (logical drive D:, 4 gigs).

Sometime in the year 2000 I upgraded to Windows 2K Pro. Months later I installed an extra 40 gig hard drive (logical drive F). I have plenty of extra space on F:, 40 gigs. I have no extra space on C:, 2 gigs.

I need to shuffle things around so that the logical drive with the OS has more room to work in. I have a copy of Partition Magic, but I have no idea where to start. (Suggestions welcome).

For the time being I will let Win2K suffer within its cramped two-gig working space.

6:14:28 PM comment [] |

How to include apostrophes

(In response to this Radio discussion thread)

The numeric code for an apostrophe is 39 (according to the W3C HTML Coded Character Set page). Edit your post in "Source" mode, where you can see the HTML tags. Position your cursor where you would like the apostrophe to appear. Type the following five characters:

An ampersand &
A pound sign #
The number three 3
The number nine 9
A semicolon ;

Josef Tornick's Weblog is a breakthrough in quality and cleverness.

Thanks to Jeff's Radio Weblog for showing me how to distribute code snippets without the recipient unintentionally picking up invisible characters which render the code inoperable.

Josef Tornick's weblog can be found at http://radio.weblogs.com/0111492/.

3:04:10 PM comment [] | Topics: HTML

Test-Driven Website Development

I need to get in the habit of test-first development. I imagine it is awkward for everyone at first but gets easier with time. This web developer is going to chronicle his progress towards a test-first development paradigm.

Test-driving a Web site
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/62058

Edmund Schweppe, in trying to answer the question of "how do
you test-driven develop a website" is going to attempt to do
it for his own. He welcomes feedback. Of course, he doesn't
explicitly state /what/ the URL to the site is, but given his
.sig, I presume it is:

http://schweppe.home.tiac.net

2:22:48 PM comment [] | Topics: extremeProgramming unitTesting

"...page on Google for advanced operators. Very cool."
[Brian Buck] via [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Noteable Advanced Searches:

link: The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage.
For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list webpages that have links pointing to the Google homepage.
site: If you include [site:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to those websites in the given domain.
For instance, [help site:www.google.com] will find pages about help within www.google.com. [help site:com] will find pages about help within .com urls.
stocks: If you begin a query with the [stocks:] operator, Google will treat the rest of the query terms as stock ticker symbols, and will link to a page showing stock information for those symbols.
For instance, [stock: intc yhoo] will show information about Intel and Yahoo.

1:21:39 PM comment [] | Topics: Tools

Thanks to Russell Beattie for pointing out W3Schools.com, a site with tutorials for all types of XML and Web technologies. The timing was perfect Russ, I need to write an Xenc (XML encryption) prototype for my boss by tomorrow.

11:51:14 AM comment [] | Topics: XML

Easy Thumbnails Freeware.

Something to check out. As far as I can tell, the software that came with my Canon A20 digicam does not do any automatic thumbnailing.

2:58:16 AM comment [] | Topics: Photos Tools

Style-O-Mattic is a pretty cool applet. I cannot provide a direct link to it, but if you go to Builder.com's section on Style Sheets you can launch it in a separate window.

Update [9/30/2002, 2:08 AM]: there is a direct link to the Style-O-Mattic: http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Authoring/CSS/CssMaker/index.html.

Thanks Bubba (if that is your real name).

2:25:29 AM comment [] | Topics: CSS Tools

testing live topics

2:18:35 AM comment [] | Topics: liveTopics

Do C-only SAX parsers exist? (C-only means no C++)

2:16:55 AM comment [] | Topics: XML