slippy slidey
So, the weekend was fun. No, really. It decided to be winter again (went from low 70s on Thurs to mid-to-low 20s on Sat) and also rainy, so you can probably figure out where the hell this is going. I had to work on Saturday. This was not a bad thing initially, because I looked out my window and Everything Was Clear. For some reason the area outside my window was clear, and nothing else was. I got to my car and spent 30 minutes breaking my ice scraper. (Although, to be fair, the roads had de-iced themselves enough to make travel relatively easy. They were good enough to go near-limit in and at-limit back, so that’s not too bad.) Deceptive, the street outside my window be. To make matters worse, I’m also nursing a really stupid cold, and have been since late Friday or so. (It’s stupid because it’s just there and annoying, and not necessilarily bad.) So, to remedy this, I played racquetball tonight. Did better than I usually do. It all works out.
I’m trying to work in some Ajax-y stuff into this project I’m working on at work. To date, I’ve spent a few hours trying to coerce Dojo into doing a tab view type arrangement, which it evidently does. . That didn’t work out, and neither did trying to get Rico to do accordian stuff either, so I gave up and wrote it myself. I know basically shit-all about JavaScript - I spent some time trying to figure out how to declare a variable - but it worked. It probably won’t work in IE, though. I must be missing something, though, especially in the case of the Rico accordian thing, because nothing looks wrong. But there’s shit-all for documentation, so I’m really just comparing my page against the one with the stupid demo on it.
(Side-rant: Why are there so many cool toolkits and stuff available with no documentation? It sucks, cuz they’re all like “hey, we do cool stuff here!” and you look at the demos and you’re all like “wow, that is cool! and the snippet looks pretty simple, too?…. where’s the docs?” and they’re all “hey look at this wiki that only has one library function of 5,000,281,191 documented!” and you retort with “damn you”. I realize that a lot of these things are totally “I like to do cool stuff!” type projects, but could you please take a minute of your time to at least write down the function names and what arguments they require? Jeesh.)
I’m still using qcodo for the project, and it’s working out pretty well. Still getting used to just saying “object, load thyself” instead of writing SQL. I implemented group authentication in about a 40-line, probably way inefficient function. Now I have to shove it all into the template I came up with and make the tabs work and add form controls and ba-da-bing. Hopefully I can get bits of the admin thing up by the end of the week or next week. Damned project is taking too long. Stupid lack of planning.