adk

known in real life as andrej kostresevic

Apr 20, 2009 10:48am
I firmly believe that widgets (local HTML/CSS/Javasctipt web apps) are the future of the mobile web. They are easy to create, they’re based on open standards, they save the end user quite a bit of network traffic, and many people around the world already know how to create them. - Peter Paul Koch - QuirksBlog: Introduction to W3C Widgets
Apr 19, 2009 5:47pm
the single most important factor in determining whether or not a person will adopt one of these sites is whether or not it is the place where their friends hangout - Danah Boyd
Jan 1, 2009 2:55pm
Presence always trumps presents. - Joe Kelly, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Dec 15, 2008 2:18pm

 - Weird characters in Visual Studio 2008

I am using VS 2008 while most of my team is on 2005. Recently after syncing with CVS, my solution would not build. One of my code-behind files had the characters “” prepended to it. After a bit of googling, I found this:

“Those are the marks some Windows applications use to distinguish UTF-8 from ASCII (they are a translation of the U+FEFF byte order marks into UTF-8). I’ve never done anything with VS and aspx, so I don’t know how to get rid of them. Maybe there is a way to tell VS to save things in UTF-8 without the marks (if you still want them to be UTF-8) or to just save them in ASCII (if you don’t care about UTF-8).” (from here)

According to Wikipedia, “a text editor that does not recognize UTF-8 will display “” at the start of the document, even if the UTF-8 contains only ASCII and would otherwise display correctly.” Hmmm, sounds like our issue, doesn’t it?

So, I dug around in Visual Studio until I found the “Auto-detect UTF-8 encoding without signature” option (Tools->Options->Text Editor)

That did the trick. I re-synced with CVS and verified that the issue is gone. The “” characters are no longer showing up.

Sep 24, 2008 10:21pm
Aug 19, 2008 4:17pm
There are no longer ‘dancers.’ the possessed. The cleavage of men into actor and spectators is the central fact of our time. We are obsessed with heroes who live for us and whom we punish. […] We are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark. - Jim Morrison, The Lords and the New Creatures
Jul 9, 2008 1:19pm
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. - Richard P. Feynman on The Value Of Science
Jun 6, 2008 3:32pm
May 23, 2008 7:26pm

A Bit of Fry and Laurie - There ain’t but one way (Kicking ass)

May 7, 2008 1:13pm
We are quite literally working ourselves into a frenzy just so we can consume all that our machines can produce. […] If as a society we made a collective decision to get by on the amount we produced and consumed seventeen years ago, we could cut back from the standard forty-hour week to 5.3 hours per day—or 2.7 hours if we were willing to return to the 1948 level. We were already the richest country on the planet in 1948 and most of the world has not yet caught up to where we were then. - The Gospel of Consumption | Orion magazine
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