January 2007 - Posts - Developers Anonymous

January 2007 - Posts

Javascript is such a useful tool for any webdeveloper, yet when many developers run into problems with their functions they have no idea how to debug their scripts. Although there is a javascript debugger addon for MozIlla and Netscape available at www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/ I have never used it. I have found that by far the easiest way to debug my javascript is by using alerts. It is obviously a little more time consuming but it works brilliantly!

Does anyone else have methods of debugging Javascript in webpages?

It seems that many people who are using Office 2007 are unaware that they can blog from within Word. Although Armand made a post about this a while back I'm just going to repeat his post. This is quiet useful because it looks like you working while you're actually blogging ;)

 

Blogging from Word 2007

Just a quick note on the setup for blogging to this site from Word 2007 or other MetaWeblog API clients' tools:

  1. In Word Community Server is listed as a provider which makes it rather simple, just select it. For other clients you still need to select a MetaWeblog API option.
  2. The service endpoint it's looking for is http://dotnet.org.za/blogs/metablog.ashx. That is the location of the MetaWeblog API implementation on Community Server. (If you want more info on this check out the specification over here)
  3. The username and password is the same credentials you currently use to access the site.
  4. On Word 2007 you'll get a list of blogs to which your account has access. In most cases there should only be one or it will just let you through with your blog selected by default. On other clients you fill in your blog identifier, http://dotnet.org.za/<blogname>, in the blog id field.
  5. That should do it There's some more answers to common questions over here on blogging from Word 2007.

 

http://dotnet.org.za/siteadmin/archive/2006/05/24/52598.aspx

I could never understand how people could have a blog and not use it. Well its been several months since I last blogged and I hope to blog a lot more often than last year.

 

We seem to be working in a much more OO style this year so I'll definitely be learning a lot so hopefully I'll post a lot. This is also my first post from Office 2007. Installing Vista tonight ;)

Cheers for now.