Google-whacking techniques for naming your jira tickets.

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Because JIRA search just sucks that bad.  We need extra help.

Here's an idea.  When you name a ticket for a task that you need to do in your project, pick a very unique name that you can always remember later.

For example, a web form:

Business Maintenance Form reloaded

or

There are two files here, please pick one and kill the other.

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Then when you need to find the issue ticket again, it's simple to search for your 'keyword'.

CommunityServer sucks?

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I think I'm about to give up.

I've spend the last 2 weeks of my life fighting with CommunityServer, and as far as I can determine, this is a product that is NOT designed for other developers.

Lack of documentation.  Lack of up-to-date examples or explanation of the layout of the SDK means that a typical developer spends weeks and weeks in the dark about where things are.

Forums are completely useless - with questions and answers relating to older versions that doesn't apply.

If you are after a good Blog/Forum/CMS software, look elsewhere.

AJAX, Tooltip, World of Warcraft (WoW)

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Spend a whole day trying to work around a simple issue.
I give myself one html page.  No server side code.
Write a javascript/css based approach to pull data from either Thottbot or Allakhazam and return the data, then render it as a popup.

The AJAX isn't hard, nor is the pop-up page, the problem lies in the "no server side code".

Both IE and FireFox don't like to make XMLHttpRequest cross-domain.  That is, it doesn't like being hosted on a http://localhost/test.html or even file host file:///test.html, making a request to thottbot.com.
On IE, you get a security question pop'up everytime you try to make such a call.  If the user clicks "OK", he'd be let through.
On FireFox, it's automatically denied unless you try to obtain UniversalBrowserRead privilege.  Extremely difficult and potentially a security loophole.

The solution seems bleak.

Use AJAX to query the origin server - without making a cross-domain call.  But use the server to make the 'translation' - possibly caching as well.

Be serious with the Lord

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I got quite a bit out of brother Ron's memorial service. Although there was a strong sense of loss, I am extremely glad he has finished his course and ran his race. Now he can finally rest in the Lord and pray for the Lord's coming and our overcoming.
  • be a proper person
  • have a living that can match our desire to be useful
  • turn to my spirit quickly
  • don't missing the gatherings