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Web services, XmlNode, and XPATH

I was writing a little web services app to help delete individual permissions from a site and thought about trying XPATH on the result to get what I needed. I had some trouble so thought I’d put together a small example for later reference.

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Using undefined in JavaScript

Working with JavaScript can definitely be painful, but I always love stumbling across interesting and strange features of the language. I just found wtfjs.com which led me to these two answers on stackoverflow.

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Relative Dates in JavaScript

I was developing an input form for a search when I came across the need to allow the user to filter items using a date range. I had two input boxes where the user could enter a start and an end date. For some of the most common date ranges, I decided to create links that could be clicked to auto-populate the start/end date textboxes. For example, searching for items that were created last week or last month. Using JavaScript’s Date object, I was able to put together some nice examples.

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AutoIt3 script to auto resize windows

One thing that bugs me all the time is when a window doesn’t remember the position that it was resized or moved to. Although it is more of a nuisance than anything else, I decided to write a little AutoIt3 script to automatically resize my Remote Desktop windows to be the certain place and size that I prefer them to be in.

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Using Prototype's Element.insert

Strangely, Prototype’s documentation for Element.insert does not have any examples, so I cooked something up quick:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Template</title>

<script type="text/javascript" src="prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

Event.observe(window, 'load', function() {
    // Using Element.insert to insert after, before, top, or bottom
    Element.insert($('para1'), { before: "<p>This is paragraph zero.</p>" });
    Element.insert($('para1'), { after: "<p>This is paragraph two.</p>" });
   
    // notice we have to insert using the content container
    Element.insert($('content'), { top: "<p>This is the first paragraph.</p>" });
    Element.insert($('content'), { bottom: "<p>This is the last paragraph</p>" });
});

</script>

</head>

<body>

<div id="content">
    <p id="para1">This is paragraph one.</p>
    <p id="para3">This is paragraph three.</p>
</div>

</body>
</html>