Tag Archives: web

Opera/Mac File Input Opacity

Just to spread the word here and save some of you the frustration.
You may have found out about the smart way to style a file input. Check out the great article on Quirksmode.
Well, it doesn’t work in Opera/Mac. I tried it today with version 9.64. A lucky stumbling upon this article provided the solution.
To make […]

Fighting Comment Spam

I started to get a lot of spam with this new WordPress shit in recent weeks. The spam comes from 195.225.178.14 or 195.225.178.15. It’s based in Panama, so no luck alerting the authorities. Those pricks are probably too busy cooking up the next civil war anyway.
These IPs (mind the apostrophe) and others like them used […]

CMS Hell - Wordpress, Wiki, Drupal

I’m not a big fan of WordPress. I think most CMSs today suck because they don’t provide a decent WYSIWYG editor. Yes, god really is in the details. With the option to clean up your code enabled (cause I don’t like non-compliant HTML either, ya know), this FCYK editor or whatever its name is a […]

GWT, GWT-Ext and MIME/Multipart Forms

When trying to create a simple GWT-Ext file upload (GWT-Ext 2.0.4, Ext-JS 2.0.2, GWT 1.5 Windows), GWT reports the following hosted mode error upon form submit:
com.google.gwt.dev.shell.HostedModeException: Expected primitive type int; actual value was undefined
According to some reports, older versions of GWT display a slightly different error message.
com.google.gwt.dev.shell.HostedModeException: Calling method ‘onActionComplete’: JavaScript undefined, expected int
This error […]

GWT in IDEA 7 - Hello World Tutorial

I was disappointed to notice that the only good article out there about GWT + IDEA 7 has gone missing. Let me give it a quick stab:
Prerequisites
Make sure to set up Google Web Toolkit.
It may also help to add a path variable in IDEA to point to the installation of Google Web Toolkit.
Step 1: Create […]