Internet Explorer 9 Pro Challenge

1 . Webpages and applications load noticeably faster and are incredibly more responsive with Internet Explorer 9 because of:   New Document Object Model (DOM) Re-Engineered Layout New JavaScript Engine (Chakra) All of the Above

2 . Internet Explorer 9 Beta added which security feature to help protect end users from malware and phishing attacks?   Microsoft Forefront Client Security SmartScreen Filter Microsoft Security Essentials All of the Above

3 . Which Operating System version has the additional components required for automatic installation of the RTM version Internet Explorer 9 (when it is released)?   Windows XP SP2 Windows Vista Windows 7 RTM Windows 7 SP1

4 . Internet Explorer 9 provides the following new Group Policy setting (among others) to support its new features:   Prevent Deleting Download History Disable add-on Performance Notifications Allow Internet Explorer 8 Shutdown Behaviour All of the Above

5 . Which of the following IE7 and IE8 settings is migrated after Internet Explorer 9 Beta upgrade?   Tabbed Browsing SmartScreen Filter User Interface Layout All of the Above

6 . Compatibility View mode allows websites that were designed for __________ to work properly in Internet Explorer 9.   Windows Internet Explorer 5 Windows Internet Explorer 6 Windows Internet Explorer 7 All of the Above

7 . Internet Explorer 9 Beta provides for approximately how many Group Policy Settings to help streamline desktop management and support?   1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500

8 . What can IT Pros use to create custom, branded versions of Internet Explorer 9 that they can deliver as standalone packages or with other software and services?   Internet Explorer Administration Kit Internet Explorer Customization Kit Internet Explorer Deployment Kit Internet Explorer Management Kit

9 . Which toolkit contains tools and documentation for evaluating and mitigating application compatibility issues before deploying Windows 7?   Application Compatibility Toolkit Application Evaluation Toolkit Application Migration Toolkit Application Administration Toolkit

10 . The Blocker Toolkit allows IT Pros to block __________ installation through automatic updates.   Windows 7 RTM Internet Explorer 8 Windows 7 SP1 Internet Explorer 9 Beta

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Tips to watch YUI Theater videos on your iPad

Just wanted to share some tips from @miraglia which he shared on a mailing list. Two things will make your life better when watching YUI Theater videos on your iPad.

#1: HD versions.

     Since late last year, YUI Theater made HD (480p) versions of all videos available for download (e.g., http://yui.zenfs.com/theater/grove-zen-hd.mov ).  The easiest way to view these on your iPad is to use an app like GoodReader to download and view them.  YUI Theater will do that for all videos that they will shoot at YUIConf this year. 

     They will also set up a YUI Theater HD podcast on iTunes to allow you to automate this in case you don't have GoodReader.  The current iTunes channel only downloads the low-resolution version.  You can use iTunes today by manually downloading the HD version, adding it to your iTunes library, and then putting it on a playlist that syncs to your iPad. 

#2: Better formatting of code and slides

     We do almost all YUI Theater work using personal equipment -- we don't have expensive Yahoo! studio gear.  But where possible we are now recording screen and speaker separately and showing the screen in the maximum resolution allowed by the video dimensions -- see http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=glass-node (in the middle) for an example of what that looks like.  Especially for talks that have a lot of live coding, that format helps us see the screen a lot better in the video.

     We won't do this for every talk, but we'll do as much of it as we can.

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Untitled

I recently started using Titanium from appcelerator for mobile development and wanted to share some tips. Its actually more of the problems I encountered and solutions I discovered.

Problem 1 - A project created by my friend won't import properly on my machine. When I mean it won't import properly, titanium developer reported that the import was successful. But when I navigate to test & package tab, it would be blank. 

Solution: The problem here was that my friend did not commit the build directory that was created by titanium, to the repository. So when I imported the project there was no build directory in it. Titanium should ideally error out while importing or atleast give some sort of warning, but it did not do that. And normally as engineers, we assume that build directory contains some build output so we won't commit them. But you have to when you develop with Titanium.

Problem 2 - When I try to create a new mobile project, titanium will say "error creating project, try again" but nothing about what the error is.

Solution: the problem here was the default sdk version selected by titanium when I created a new project was not supported. So I had to change it to successfully create a project. Again, a generic message from titanium here doesn't help much. Once I change the sdk to 1.2.0 it was successful.

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An old conversation with Douglas Crockford

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 at 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: Minor fix in json.js
To: Prathapnirmal <prathapnirmal@gmail.com>

Thanks.

Prathapnirmal wrote:

Hi Douglas,
 First of all thanks for the awsome JSON. Even a subset of javascript does excellent job.I am using json.js in one of my projects and came across a minor bug which requires a fix. It's in the filter walker function,

 if (typeof filter === 'function') {

                       function walk(k, v) {
                           if (v && typeof v === 'object') {
                               for (var i in v) {

                                   if (v.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
                                       v[i] = walk(i, v[i]);
                                   }
                               }
                           }

                           return filter(k, v);
                       }

                       j = walk('', j);

                   }
                   return j;

 The final result of the walker should be the return value, else the following example fails,

 var filter = function(k, v) {
   switch(v.type) {
      case type1:
         return type1();
              case type2
          ....
   }
 }
    var json_data = {type: "type1", collection: [{type: "type2", ...}]};
  var type1_obj = json_data.parseJSON(filter);
  In the above example I will be expecting a type1 object whereas what will  I actually get is a simple object. The actual reason is that the final object that is created in the filter function is lost.

Again thanks for such a good alternative to xml. Please let me know on what should I do to do this fix so that it becomes useful to everyone and not everyone spends time on debugging the same issue.

thanks
~
Prathap

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Keep Life Simple

• Follow your heart
• Find a new perspective
• Have a sense of wonder
• Find people you love
• Set goals
• Help others
• Dance
• Pamper yourself
• Face your fears
• Go to a museum
• Exercise
• Limit Television
• Get in touch with nature
• Lighten up
• Get a good nights sleep
• Read books
• Buy yourself flowers
• Don't compare yourself with others
• Be open to new ideas
• Don't focus on negative thoughts
• Focus on creating what you desire
• Make time just to have fun
• Keep the romance in your life
• Make a gratitude list
• Want what you have
• Be true to yourself!

 

Keep life simple!! - http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=446284490742

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My Status Messages

• RTFM - Read the _dash_ manual
• People, most important asset for any company - invest in them, rest will follow
• I make design decisions in my shower
• Two wrongs is not right but three lefts are, both are bad in engineering

Mozilla Add-ons: Speed DNS 0.1 reviewed by Juan Manuel Rodriguez Alvarado

Just got my Speed DNS Addon approved on Mozilla! Check it out.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mozilla Add-ons <nobody@mozilla.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:37 PM
Subject: Mozilla Add-ons: Speed DNS 0.1 reviewed by Juan Manuel Rodriguez Alvarado
To: prathapnirmal@gmail.com

Congratulations! Your nominated add-on, Speed DNS, has been reviewed by a Mozilla Add-ons editor who approved your add-on to be public.

Your most recent version (0.1) has also been made public.

You can view your public add-on now at: http://addons.mozilla.org/addon/54648

Review Information:
Reviewer: Juan Manuel Rodriguez Alvarado
Comments: Congratulations, your add-on has been approved for public status. Due to caching and mirroring of AMO, it may take a couple of hours for your add-on to appear public, so please be patient.

Keep up the good work!

It is difficult to verify the performance gain as DNS resolution occurs very quickly, but apparently the code aims to help you save a few miliseconds :)

If you have questions about this review, please reply to this email or join #addons on irc.mozilla.org.

Mozilla Add-ons
http://addons.mozilla.org

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My meetings this week

I was wondering on how much meetings I had this week and was trying to write some thing to figure that out automatically. AppleScript came to help since I was using ical and it took me about 3 hours to start from basics to get what I have, the following code. Result is 18 meetings and the total time I spend on meetings is 16 hours.

global total_meeting_hours

global num_meetings

set total_meeting_hours to 0

set num_meetings to 0

tell application "iCal"

tell calendar "calendar"

set theEvents to every event

repeat with e in theEvents

set sd to start date of e

set sm to month of sd

set d to day of sd

if sm contains March and (d > 21 and d < 27) then

set ed to end date of e

set h to (ed - sd) / (60 * 60)

set m_summary to summary of e

set total_meeting_hours to total_meeting_hours + h

set num_meetings to num_meetings + 1

end if

end repeat

end tell

end tell

 

display dialog total_meeting_hours

display dialog num_meetings

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Crockford's Talk

• HTML was derived from SGML. SGML is something used internally at IBM and Tim adopted it for world wide web
• The browser makers went into a competition on who could make the best sense of a very bad html document
• Next is the end of all things!

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Yahoo Maps

Its very inconvenient that I have to do an extra click on the text box to start typing in something. Why don't they auto focus?

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