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Yes. It’s Watercolor Wednesday, but before we get to that, let’s talk about pumpkins.

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When Cinderella was at the ball with the handsome prince, the clock began to strike 12 – midnight. And you know what happened next: the horse-drawn carriage turned back into a pumpkin. And she dropped her glass slipper.

YIKES! We don’t want that to happen to YOU, so remember to order your T-shirt or hoodie today BEFORE 11:59 PM EST (that’s tonight where I live).

It may not mean you get to keep your glass slippers, but it sure means that we’ll be closer to learning  more about hemangiosarcoma. And THAT, is priceless. (So are you, by the way; thank you for your support.) By the way, HSA is most common in Golden Retrievers (1 -5 will get it), and other large breeds such as Portuguese Water Dogs, Boxers and German Shepherds.

We’re just a few dollars away from raising $1,000 for HSA research! ARRRROOOOOrrrroooOOOOOO!

OK. Time for some StuART. Old StuART, but good ones. A double dose of puppy-ness since I still feel like a puppy from my flu shot yesterday. Those poor pooches. If puppies feel like my arm does today after getting their shots, my heart goes out to them all.

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Winston welcomes you to The Scottie Chronicles - a dog blog that began in 2009 as a voice for Stuart, a more than memorable black, brindle and white Scottish Terrier who captured hearts around the world. Stuart passed suddenly in December 2015 from cardiac hemangiosarcoma, a nasty cancer that took him far too early. He would have been 12 years old in March 2018. The Scottie Chronicles is dedicated to Stuart and the joy he shared with everyone who met him or saw him from afar. If you love Scotties, please follow along. Arroooo!
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  1. Kismet says:

    May the clock strike midnight soon and hemangiosrcoma be gone.

  2. Kaci says:

    I SEE ME IN THAT COSTUME!!!!! She has ordered two shirts. We all want the terrible disease eliminated soon. I am thankful for the Stuart’s Fund to help toward that end.

  3. rjkeyedup says:

    Looking forward to seeing mommy in her new Stuart shirt – it will be good advertising when we go for our mile am walk!
    Ozzy & Callie
    PS – check your hot mail address Peeptress…

  4. corkscot says:

    We just placed an order in honor of our Scotties at corkscot

  5. WestScot says:

    With an hour to go, I just checked Stuart’s Fund and see that it’s over $1,000!!!!! That deserves a huge ArroOOOOOOOOOOOOOO‼‼‼‼‼❤🐾❤🐾❤🐾❤🐾❤

  6. nordhuesn says:

    We say Yahoo, Aroooo for the success of the drive! Mom can’t wait to wear her shirt. Nice punkins, too.

  7. Ack! Nan! I’m afraid we became punkins…Could you please email mum at kmpdotmimsatgmaildotcom, and send us an address where we could mail you a donation check for the fund?

    Love, Edgar’s procrastinating mum, Katie

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Overland Trails Council - OA Section Conclave 2018

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The building's façade is nearly 92,000 square feet.

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San Francisco-based Obscura Digital, known internationally for its large-scale architectural projection mapping on iconic buildings around the world—including the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Sydney Opera House in Australia—has partnered with property management company Vornado Realty Trust and architecture firm Valerio Dewalt Train Associates Inc. to design and implement a permanent projection system that it says will be the world’s largest.

The installation highlights Chicago’s Merchandise Mart—popularly known as theMART—an art deco-style building completed in 1934 that, when it opened, was the largest building in the world.

Sitting alongside the Chicago River, theMART today is a multi-use facility featuring office space, retail, and meeting rooms.

To illuminate the building with large-scale visual artistry, Obscura is using 34 Christie-made, Boxer 4K30 projectors that fire more than one million lumens of light onto the 2 ½-acre—or nearly 92,000 square feet—façade of the building..

The company says that for the display, it created a software-driven platform that allows theMART team to curate an ongoing exhibition of imagery from celebrated artists, keeping the illuminations fresh, timely and engaging. Notably, Obscura adds, the curation will focus exclusively on art, and will include no branding, logos or advertising.

The display, which officially opened in September, features two-hour projection shows five nights a week, 10 months a year.

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A remote office setup requires infrastructure that meets performance, cost and space demands. Depending on the vendor, a microserver will likely provide the best compromise.

If your organization is ready to expand, branch office servers from a microserver vendor can provide the best set of features for the most practical cost.

Remote access and virtual private networks, despite some limitations, often work well enough for offices with just a few people. As branch and remote offices expand in size and need, however, more advanced infrastructure will be necessary, and it likely won't be as easy as purchasing, mounting and cabling a rack-mounted server.

Data at the remote location won't exist yet, and if the remote office is a rented location without a data center, air conditioning-equipped wiring closet or 208 voltage setup, there might not be enough space for a typical IT infrastructure deployment.

Branch office servers prompt a different perspective on infrastructure

Remote and branch offices require a different way of thinking. Rack-mounted servers or hyper-converged infrastructure platforms will be too loud if the office doesn't have the space to isolate them or the power to run them. Even if you can address those issues, the heat such a system generates still poses a problem.

Remote and branch offices require a new perspective because the environments are fundamentally different. You must transition from a controlled, spacious environment to a closet or a shelf. The areas you usually want to avoid become the ones you have to embrace.

A common strategy is to use a hypervisor on high-end desktops that can run at the new office. This isn't a good idea. Desktops might be able to run hypervisors, but they simply don't have the hardware for server use. They don't offer the ability to hot swap drives, they likely won't perform well enough and the power supplies might not be rated to handle the additional load. Enhanced desktops are still desktops -- not servers. If you need a hypervisor at a remote office, you need server hardware.

Fortunately, many traditional hardware vendors sell microservers designed for branch and remote environments. These microservers offer reduced footprints, but they also have reduced specifications that require further evaluation.

Storage is a key advantage that makes microservers fit well as branch office servers.

To start, microservers often only have a single CPU. Depending on your workloads, this might not be a concern because its CPUs are still multicored. However, it does mean you have to be more diligent when you allocate CPU resources.

Licensing poses a more immediate problem. VMware licensing works per CPU, but Microsoft Data Center uses a two CPU base, so it might be better to license per guest. Microsoft's memory is fairly consistent, but you have less capacity. Rather than hundreds of GBs, it's closer to 32 GB or 64 GB. This is still enough to run multiple VMs, but not an entire data center in a box.

Storage is a key advantage that makes microservers fit well as branch office servers. Microservers have higher-tier RAID controllers that can support more disks. Depending on the vendor, your microserver could have four to six disk bays for higher output. This means you can still use spinning disks if you're looking to save on costs or go with a solid-state drive and retain a higher capacity. Depending on the vendor and the model, the drive might even enable you to hot swap it. You can also use external storage or small network-attached storage (NAS) frames for shared VM storage. These lower-powered frames can still deliver enough IOPS to run multiple VMs without performance lag.

Microservers require compromise

Two traditional server expectations won't apply to all microservers.

The first is redundant networking connections. Some vendors and models have dual networking connections, but many models don't. Dual network connections might sound good, but keep the needs of your environment in mind. These branch office servers are most likely for environments that don't have dual switches, so the value might be limited.

Dual network connections into the same switch protects against a port or cable failure, but not a card or switch failure, so the value is debatable. However, if you run a small NAS, that second port can isolate storage traffic.

The second aspect absent from most microservers is dual power supplies. The enclosures aren't large enough to house dual supplies -- not to mention the heat and noise an additional supply generates. This limitation can leave branch office servers at risk in the event of a power supply failure, but you must make some concessions with the reduced footprint. Of course, you should still protect that single power supply with an uninterruptible power supply.

Branch office servers don't need to be at a large scale or use repurposed desktop equipment. Modern server vendors have products that compromise on redundancy but still provide remote and branch offices with a capable platform for virtualization that doesn't break the bank or produce too much noise.

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Not too long now…

It a while since I committed myself to a countdown. So – here goes – less than two more weeks to go, less than two more weeks to go, da da da da da da, da da da da da da….. (there’s a nursery tune in there somewhere!)

I’ve just spent a blowy/cold/intermittently wet morning (in very good company, naturally) doing another car boot sale, fundraising for our fabled charity adventure.

At the end of which it is only to be expected that one would yearn for some summer sun, a day when it could be predicted that shorts and T-Shirt would be appropriate wear (for, yes, that is what I so optimistically wore this morning!) And – given that virtually everyone known to us has stripped their home bare for goods for our car boot sales, it seems that we are to face the vagaries of the County Down weather every Sunday morning for many months to come!

But as I say. There is to be a much anticipated diversion from what is quickly becoming our new hobby cum profession (we’re now ready to start our series of tutorials on successful car-boot marketing, if anyone is interested????) . The South of France beckons enticingly….. soft baby blue sky…. azure seas….deep golden rays….

People watching from laid-back kerb-side bistros….. sipping coffees/cocktails/beers (depending on the time of day)…..sampling delightful French breads/cheeses/cooked meats/salads…..I’m salivating already!!!

Another two weeks???? OMG!! I CAN’T WAIT!!!

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OK - I've been doing this for almost a year now and have still not mastered the mysteries of blogging!! WHAT are widgets? What are tags? Where on the dashboard do I find them or an explanation of how I can get them to work for me? In other aspects of my life I am fairly sharp. I could certainly be advisor to Hercule Poirot in unraveling his most impenetrable of cases. So - why oh why can I not figure out how to manage this bloomin' blog???????
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  1. kileen says:

    Ok so there’s 2 weeks to go. We all know that now & it’s not fair to mention it again when less fortunate people have NOTHING to look forward to. 😦

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Ghost Recon: Wildlands is about to get its third piece of expansion. There’s a new Ghost Recon: Wildlands DLC coming tomorrow, January 25, on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC, called Extended Ops. This new piece of DLC, which is a part of the Ghost War, will bring a new PvP mode to the game, 2 new maps as well as new gear and weapons.

As Ubisoft announced, Extended Ops will be a free update as were the previous two Ghost Recon: Wildlands DLC. The biggest feature of it is clearly the new Extraction mode, which is an Escort Target mode. As the trailer indicates, in Extraction mode one team will have to escort two “High-Value Targets” out of a conflict zone while the other has to stop them and restrain the hostages.

Ubisoft has included some useful tips for playing on this map as both teams, so seeing it may seem of use to you. Take a look:

As the trailer indicates, there will also be two new maps included in Extended Ops, one being the Institute and the other the Garage. Both of them will be available for Quickplay and Ranked modes. Last but not least, the Extended Ops DLC will feature new icon costumes which will give you the opportunity to show off your characters like one of the main game (Cartel and Unidad) and Rainbow Six Siege.

Ghost Recon: Wildlands previous DLC, Jungle Storm, was released on December 14 and featured two new classes: the Predator, a frontline versatile fighter with the ability to increase his health and regeneration for a limited amount of time and the Pathfinder, equipped with a crossbow, who cannot be detected by Scout’s Drone motion sensor, marked by drones or the Sentinel’s Satcom Tracker. The Jungle Storm Update also brought he Ranked mode for Ghost War as well as 4 new maps: Ruins, Jungle Base, Scrapyard and Urban Incursion.


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I’m really glad a situation came up in this session that let me use one of my best sailing ship jokes, but bummed that nobody in the game had enough of the necessary knowledge to get it

Lack of buttons isn’t so much a problem, but rather that it just makes me wonder if I SHOULD be worried about it

This was actually my original intention, but at the time, we already had a monk. He’s dead now…

I do, but for the punching rather than for the shield. I get to punch twice per full action and get 1d4+str per. I’ve been thinking of a way to get some kind of Cap/Thor action going on either with the shield or with my heirloom tankard.

Our games definitely get better the more awesome jokes I make

The point of playing dnd is to annoy your friends with horrible puns right

the setup for my joke was that we’d commandeered, via lots of punching and killing, a duergar slaving ship, and decided to take it over, and since I was the one who had been carrying the supplies up to this point, I was appointed as quartermaster, and I said

“So I’m the Boatswain then? If I have to take on the duties of Chaplain too, I should change my name to Higgs”

Yesssss this is the true meaning of dungeons and dragons

get it because I would give the other crew Mass

Sounds like Monk’s for you. Well, maybe. It’s a Dex/Wis class and you aren’t great at either. But like who cares.

Do you have Xanathar’s? There’s some very cool new Monk subclasses in there. I mean, assuming you’re intending on leveling your multiclass far enough to get a subclass. (I think Monk gets theirs at 3?) Shadow monk rules the most from the PHB if you ask me, but that probably wouldn’t fit your boisterous high charisma party animal.

Also at one point I foiled an assassination attempt and somehow (somehow) the would-be assassin ended up dead of getting killed before we could question them, but we had a feeling he was associated to two other guys.

All three of them were Drow, and when the GM said the two alive ones were named Jh’ameer and J’maara, I said that must mean the dead one’s name was Hassenpfeffer.

Only got one laugh out of that one (from the really old dude (who plays a gender-confused 7-year-old tiefling cleric)), but dang it, I’m proud of it.

So I thought about this and actually, if you follow the rules to the letter, you can’t multiclass Monk, cause you need 13 Dex & Wis. So that’s down to how bad you want it and how cool your DM is.

You can do Warlock or Sorc however! Or Bard?? That might actually be really interesting, what with your drinking predilection. You always were good at striking the whole tavern up into those old shanties…

Warlocks are great, but the concentration requirement for some spells will clash with rage. Armor of Agthys isn’t a concentrate spell, so you can buff, rage, and then the first couple of creatures who attack you will take cold damage (and keep your rage going).

Tho tbh if you want a Thor/Captain vibe maybe Paladin is more thematic than Celestial Warlock. On the other hand, Pact of the Blade with your tankard??

Does anyone have any take on what alignment an oath of the ancients paladin is supposed to be? LG? NG?

They’re kind of on a Druid bent which makes my 1st/2nd Edition raised brain think neutral good, but they are a paladin with a code…

I’ve been playing him as a anti-authoritarian when it comes to the jerk guard in the big city (because they’ve had it coming), but also I’ve been trying to urge mercy in combat and non-violent resolutions with the more beastly monsters.

Seems about right to me

It’s been years and years since I was on this side of the DM screen so I don’t trust my instincts.

Gotta be NG I would say

Tho I am a fan of using first edition alignments (Good, Evil, Neutral, Chaotic, Lawful, just those five without the matrix) and then mostly ignoring them

Actually, with Warcaster, Con save proficiency (from Barb) + advantage might make concentration spells pretty easy to keep up. I know a lot of minmaxing caster builds take Fighter first level for this reason.

Actually the rage requirement of “attack or be attacked every turn to maintain” may be a problem sometimes, depending on how your DM interprets spellcasting as an “attack”

I also think you should really consider Bard, it seems cooler the more I think about it especially with what little I know of your character concept. You could RP bardic inspiration as a kind of Cap morale boost leader speech thing! Or a massive barbarian yawp!

You can’t concentrate or cast spells whilst raging, but a ranged attack totally counts for keeping it going so pack those throwing axes

I think the guideline is that anything with an attack roll is an attack

Kind of moot for rages though, yeah

Well fuck

blade pact barbarian/warlock is generally one of the best strategies for that particular multiclass, improved pact weapon and armor of agathys are two things that will make your character simply better at being a barbarian. Most of the patrons you can choose from would be useful in some way. Hexblade and Great Old One offer no particular benefit to a barbarian but the rest of them are pretty good.

These psychos keep trying to make me multiclass into fungus druid and it absolutely makes so much sense but I just don’t wanna!!

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Bing recently published a list of things that influence the position of a website in Bing’s results. Although the list was for Bing, it is very likely that the same factors also influence the position of a website on Google.

bing-logo Official Bing SEO Statement: 25 things that help and hurt SEO

Bing SEO: 15 things you should pay attention to

According to Duane Forrester, the following 15 elements have a positive influence on the rankings of your web pages (if used correctly):

  1. Title tags
  2. Meta Descriptions
  3. Clean URLs
  4. Images and Alt descriptions (also called alt tags)
  5. H1 tags
  6. Rel=Canonical
  7. Robots.txt
  8. Sitemaps
  9. Social sharing options
  10. Unique content
  11. Depth of content
  12. Matching content type to visitor expectations (text, images, video, etc.)
  13. Usability Page load times (to a certain point – faster is great, but not at the expense of usability and usefulness)
  14. Crawlability (AKA discoverability, so can we actually get to all your content)
  15. News – if you are actually a new site, submit for inclusion

All of these elements can contribute to the rankings of your website. However, you should make sure that you use these elements correctly. If you stuff the H1 tags on your website with keywords, this will have a negative effect on your website’s rankings. You have to understand why an H1 tag is important to a reader, and learn how to write optimized content for them. Just ‘having’ a tag in place doesn’t mean that your tags are doing everything they can for you.

Bing SEO: 10 things you should avoid

There are several things that can have a negative influence on the rankings of your web pages:

  1. Meta Keywords (fill them in if you like, keep it short and relevant, but not a big ranking factor)
  2. Duplicate URLs
  3. Overly long URLs (no set number, but you’ve all seen these)
  4. Cloaking (comes down to your intent, but risky business for sure)
  5. Link buying
  6. Selling links
  7. Link and like farms
  8. Three way links
  9. Content duplication content
  10. Auto following in social media

Just like Google, Bing doesn’t want to get cheated. Do not participate in linking schemes and do not buy links, likes or followers.

Use white-hat SEO methods that play by the rules. If you use white-hat SEO methods, you don’t have to worry about spam filters and penalties. In addition, you will get high rankings that last.

When it comes to ranking factors, Google and Bing aren’t that different. The influence of the factors on the rankings is slightly different but the basic factors are the same. If you want to get high rankings on Google and Bing/Yahoo, check out Gold or Platinum SEO Plans.

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SANTA CLARA — Saturday was a tough day for the 49ers’ coaching staff and players as the team cut the roster to 53 players.

Shortly after the 3 p.m. cuts, head coach Jim Harbaugh spoke to the Bay Area media via conference call:

“Well there’s a lot of worthy players, And the thing that’s profound to me was that so many guys improved, so many of the guys were ascending players right up to point of making the final roster.”

The only surprise of the day was undrafted rookie Kevin McDermott unseating 13-year veteran Brian Jennings for the long snapper job.

Jennings was drafted in the seventh-round by the 49ers in 2000 and was selected to two Pro Bowls. The 36-year-old was a classy in his departure, issuing a statement:

“Today, I feel as though I’ve been honorably discharged from the team I love. … God Bless you and God Bless the San Francisco 49ers.”

Most didn’t consider McDermott a threat until recently, and the former UCLA Bruin credited Jennings for helping him adjust to the NFL especially to the elements at Candlestick Park. He also praised special teams coach Brad Seely:

“Coach Seely said this would be a competition, rep for rep, that’s what it was, and he kept his word.”

Harbaugh talked openly about his feelings for Jennings:

“There’s nobody I can say I enjoy more than Brian Jennings. Watching him play, watching him compete, just being around him every single day. … But, yeah, on a personal level that was as tough as it gets.”

Additional cuts of note were QB Seneca Wallace, seventh-round picks tackle Carter Bykowski and cornerback Marcus Cooper, 2012 seventh-round safety Trenton Robinson, and the veteran wide receiver trio of Austin Collie, Lavelle Hawkins and Kassim Osgood.

There are also multiple reports that the 49ers will add former Stanford fullback/linebacker Owen Maercic — a Harbaugh favorite — who was released by the Cleveland Browns yesterday. If they do, they will have to cut someone from the current 53-man roster.

The 49ers made 22 moves this afternoon to get down to 53 players. Eight players will be invited to the practice squad tomorrow. Those on the reserve lists cannot practice or play during the first six weeks of the season.

Here’s a list of today’s cuts along with the 49ers current 53-man roster.

Follow @SFBay and @drewmorita on Twitter and at SFBay.ca for full coverage of the San Francisco 49ers.

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The most perfect toast you could ever hope to find.

This morning I ate breakfast at Food For Me in Victoria Park. FFM is my go-to place in Vic Park for delicious breakfast and lunch foods and highly recommend them. What makes FFM so great is their bread, making it the perfect place to review toast. They start with thick (1 inch) slices of Barrett’s Pain De Mie (milk bread) and lightly toast them giving perfect grill marks while keeping the inside light and fluffy. Coupled with the perfect crunch of the outer toasted layer, this is the most enjoyable toast experience I have had to date. The only warning is that each slice comes cut in half, which is fine for me as they are large slices, but a warning to any toast purists out there.

While I usually choose to eat wholemeal bread normally I will always get the Pain De Mie as it is such a sweet, light bread. When served in a meal, the toast comes with a generous serve of butter and a delicious chutney. I always order a second slice on the side to enjoy. Food For Me’s toast is the upper end of the scale and I give it five bread knives out of five.

Butter and chutney.

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Dojo Demo Engine Update

Posted by Shane O'Sullivan on January 7, 2008

A short while ago I posted about the demo engine I’m writing for the Dojo Ajax Toolkit. Click here to read that post or go to to see it in action.

Update: Version 1.0 of the demo engine has been release. See here.

Since that post, quite a lot of work has gone into both the features and the content of the demo engine, and the development process has solidified nicely. Some of the features include:

  • Tree navigation. A dijit.Tree widget, reading from a remote JSON data store is used to navigate the various demos.
  • Search feature. A dijit.form.ComboBox widget, reading from the same JSON data store as the tree, can be used to dynamically search for demos by matching any part of their name.
  • Theme switcher. A dijit.form.ComboBox widget is used to switch between the CSS styles that Dojo provides.
  • URL addressability. Using a hash identifier (e.g. #Dojo_Query_By%20Class) in the URL of the demo engine causes it to open that demo when it has finished loading. For example, if you click this link, it will open the dojo.query demo showing you how to select nodes by class name. Opening any demo changes the URL in the browser to the URL for that demo, for easy bookmarking.
  • Integrated build process. A simple build script is integrated with the Dojo build process. It builds a JSON data file listing all the existing demos and their respective files. It also builds files with URL links for each demo.

To date, a lot of content has been added. Many, many widgets in Dijit and DojoX
have have been added, including the majority of the Form Controls.

The latest, pretty cool additions have been the IO and dojo.query demos. These cover things such as:

  • Performing a XMLHttpRequest request
  • Using an iFrame transport
  • Submitting a form asynchronously
  • Loading remote JavaScript files from another domain
  • Selecting nodes using CSS selectors with dojo.query
  • Performing operations on the NodeList returned from dojo.query
  • Attaching events to the NodeList returned from dojo.query

File Naming Scheme
A simple file naming scheme is used to add content to the demo framework. Each folder beneath the root folder represents a demo. Each file in a folder must be named the same as the folder, with five possible extensions. For example, given a folder with the name ‘Button‘, the possible files are:

  • Button.html – this contains the demo to be displayed. Any JavaScript code inside <script> tags is executed, and any <link type=”text/css”> and <style> tags have their CSS loaded. The executed code is shown in the View tab, and and the source code is shown in the XML tab. The <html>, <head> and <body> tags are not required.
  • Button.js – this contains pure JavaScript code that performs the same operations as Button.html, if applicable. It is not executed however. It is shown in the JS tab.
  • Button.txt – this contains the text description of the demo. It is loaded above the tabs.
  • Button.links – this contains a JSON array of URL links. The build script transforms these links into HTML, and the result is loaded into the Links tab. One neat feature of this is that all links from sub folders are integrated with the parent folder and displayed in a nested structure. Do, for example, clicking on Dijit will show all the links for all widgets in the Dijit project.
  • Button.full.html – this is standalone demo, that is designed to run outside the demo engine. The View tab provides a link to the external file.
  • sort.txt – this contains a comma separated list of the child folders contained in this folder. It specifies the order in which to display the child demos in the tree. If this file is not specified, then an alphabetical ordering is used.

All of these files are optional. If a file in a folder does not match this naming scheme, it is assumed to be some kind of resource that the demo needs, such as an image or a JSON data file. In this case, the file can be named whatever you like.

The tree structure in the demo engine mirrors the folder layout.

Still To Do

There remains quite a lot of work ahead. There are a few bugs remaining, some more cross browser testing is needed, and of course more content is required, particularly the base Dojo package.

In the relatively near future this should be opened up to the public for development. The Dojo folks are setting up a source control server for community additions, and this demo engine should be part of that. Once that is done, people can start adding all sorts of cool stuff!
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A new Demo engine for Dojo

Posted by Shane O'Sullivan on December 4, 2007

A couple of weeks ago I saw a cool demo framework for an Ajax toolkit just released as open source. It’s a very slick implementation, with a tree listing all the various demos, and a tabbed area showing the implementation, and the widget in practice.

So, I think to myself, this is exactly what the Dojo Ajax Toolkit is missing! Cut to today, and I’ve put the first rough cut at the demo framework on the web for people’s perusal. Check it out at .

Note: I have written a follow up post here.

Some of the features include:

  • Tree navigation for the demos. Demos can be nested as deep as required.
  • View tab. This shows the widgets in action.
  • HTML tab. This shows how to instantiate the widget using HTML markup.
  • JS tab. This shows how to instantiate the widget using JavaScript code.
  • Links tab. This shows various hyperlinks to alternate content for that demo, e.g. the Dojo Book.
  • Demo description. Gives a text description of the demo.
  • Theme selector. This allows you to change from one CSS theme to another
  • Ability to link to standalone demos that open in a new page. This is useful for large demos that show the integration of many widgets together, and may not fit well within the demo framework itself. See the Dijit/Mail demo for an example of this.
  • A build system that takes a very simple naming scheme for the demos, and creates a JSON data store that the framework runs off of. So, whenever a user adds a new demo, they simply have to re-run the build step, and that’s it! No need for a server side script, so you can run this right off your hard drive.

This is still very much beta code, and there are a couple of errors floating around, but those will of course be hunted down. There are also some Internet Explorer issues that I’ll get to soon, so try this in Firefox for now (update Dec 05 2007 – most of these have been solved, with one or two small bugs remaining). I’m in discussions to get this into the Dojo toolkit, so that the community at large can start adding in demos. I’ve put in quite a few already, but it’s so easy to do that this could become a huge resource for the Dojo community.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

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The closest thing to HelloWorld tutorials in Dojo

Posted by Shane O'Sullivan on October 26, 2006

Update: I have released the Dojo Demo Framework which has many, many hello world demos. For more info, see

When it comes to documentation (or lack thereof) for the Dojo Ajax toolkit, possibly the most requested item is a set of HelloWorld tutorials that explain the basics of how to get started with each and every facet of the framework, from widgets to the event system and everything in between. What many people new to the toolkit are not aware of is that this does – kind of – exist in the directory of unit tests that are available at These tests cover the basics of how to use all the different parts of Dojo, and while they’re not particularly well commented (noticing a pattern here?), they all do very simple atomic tasks that are quite easy to understand.

Alternatively, you could pull down a copy of the build from Subversion (go here for instructions how) , and all these unit tests are in the /tests folder.

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Dojo documentation getting better by the day!

Posted by Shane O'Sullivan on September 22, 2006

One of the primary criticisms of the Dojo Ajax toolkit is that it’s documentation is at best scattered, and at worst non-existant. The Dojo team, and their many partner companies recognise this fact, and are hard at work to fix it. All Dojo documentation is being consolidated into the Dojo Book, which you can find at, and it’s really starting to fill out nicely.

Another welcome addition is the Dojo Api reference, located at It’s built on top of JsLinker, a new Javascript parser developed by the Dojo team and AOL, which understands the common Dojo constructs, like how widgets are defined etc. While it’s not perfect yet (some elements don’t seem to be parse correctly), it’s definitely getting there.

One of the best kept secrets of the toolkit’s documentation (I’m not sure why it’s been kept quiet up to now… probably just an oversight) is the work that the guys on IBM’s WebSphere Portal team are doing to come up with an Eclipse help system for Dojo. It’s essentially putting the Dojo Book into the Eclipse help system, and is hosted at (Update Feb 13th 2007: this address appears to be down now) Check it out, it’s well worth a read. While it’s not a comprehensive guide to all things Dojo, it’s definitely getting there, and is being added to every day.

One slightly (and I mean slightly) funny thing is that the “Where to find Documentation” page is empty… I presume that’ll be filled in any day now 🙂

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The Cake PHP MVC framework and its Amazing Technicolor Documentation

Posted by Shane O'Sullivan on July 24, 2006

I’ve recently been looking into various MVC frameworks for PHP, and came across the Cake framework. It’s a port of Ruby On Rails to PHP (or as close to a port as possible), emphasising convention over configurabililty. While it’s very impressive from a technical standpoint, that’s not what is so pleasantly surprising about it – plenty of open source projects have very talented programmers contributing to them, making technical prowess a starting point for OS projects, not a destination. No, what surprised me was the amazing level of documentation for the project.CakePhp Logo

Simply put, CakePhp has some of the best, most comprehensive, most relevant and best organised documentation I’ve seen in an open source project. Whenever I had a question of any sort, not only did I find documentation “related” to it, I found full tutorials specifying exactly what I needed. In addition to the great docs at their manual and wiki, the also have a full set of API documentation.

Now, many projects state that they have API documentation by virtue of the fact they have some kind of automatic document generation á la Javadoc, but in the vast majority of cases this just consists of a listing of the available objects/classes and their functions, with extremely sparse explanations of what the methods/classes actually do, how to work with them, caveats etc. CakePhp has all of this. How they convinced open source developers to spend so much time writing documentation, I’ll never understand, but I as I said, I am very, very happy to see it.

I read a blog post that evaluated a number of PHP MVC frameworks, that stated that one of the main reasons Cake didn’t top its list was the seemingly slow pace of development compared to some of the other frameworks. If this kind of documentation, which provides me with everything I could possibly need, is the result of such “slow” development, I could only wish that more open source developers would slow down a bit.

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Being a prophet in ancient Israel wasn’t always the greatest task in the world; it often left the prophet in troubled situations. Jonah ends up in the belly of a whale for three days, although that was sort of his fault. Jeremiah is constantly on the run because everyone in the kingdom it seems wants to kill him. And Isaiah walks around barefoot and naked for three years as a sign of impending doom. But Hosea may have the most difficult task of all. Hosea is called to marry an adulterous wife.

The first thing God ever tells Hosea is to go and marry an adulterous wife as a sign of Israel’s own unfaithfulness. So, Hosea marries Gomer, a cult prostitute, as a sign to the community that Israel has cheated on its first love. Just as Gomer is unfaithful, Israel has been unfaithful. Israel was to be married to God in covenant faithfulness, but Israel has chased other loves. Israel has chased after lovers of rock and stone, other created things instead of the Creator of all things. Israel has chased these other lovers looking for fulfillment, or hope, or security, or some other unattainable goal; unattainable, because only the true God can meet these needs. So Hosea marries Gomer as a sign of Israel’s sin. Every time Hosea and Gomer go to the market to buy food, or even go to the festivals to worship God, they would serve as a reminder that Israel has been unfaithful to Yahweh God. It’s a hard life’s calling.

Later, Gomer has children, but even these children serve as a sign of Israel’s sin. The first is named Jezreel because God is going to punish the community for the blood King Jehu spilled at Jezreel. The second is named Lo-Ruhammah (which means not pitied or no mercy) because God will no longer have mercy on Israel. Finally, the third child is named Lo-Ammi (which means not my people) because God is so disappointed in Israel’s unfaithfulness that God will no longer claim them as God’s people. Again, a hard life, and a sad story.

But the story gets worse. Gomer remains unfaithful. While she was pretending to be happily married, she was constantly living a double life. While she was pretending to be a committed member of the family, loving Hosea openly and caring for her young children, she was secretly living out her idolatrous life. She still made her normal sacrifices to God at the Temple, but secretly she was living a life of promiscuity. She was keeping her sins to herself. Hiding them from her immediate family, hiding them from her religious family, and at times even trying to lie to herself that really what she was doing wasn’t so bad. She was unfaithful, and Hosea had finally had enough. He sends her away. He can’t take the hurt any longer.

We understand Hosea’s frustration. We honestly wonder how he held on for so long. Many of us wouldn’t have accepted the initial call, or would have at least thrown Gomer out after the first sign of unfaithfulness. The fact that Hosea held on so long is a testimony to his love. But none of us our upset that he finally gives up on the relationship, because we would have done the same thing.

That’s partially why the story is so sad. We understand why someone would give up after so much hurt, and that makes the story regrettable. Because we understand, this isn’t just a story of Hosea and Gomer, Lo-Ruhammah and Lo-Ammi. This is our story. It’s a story of us and God. We have been married to God. We have been in a covenant relationship with God. God the father invited us into a relationship, even when we were stuck in our sins. God welcomed us into the family even when we didn’t deserve it, and provided a place for us. We had moved from worthless and abused to become the beloved of the Lord. Yet we threw it all away. We continued in sin. We continue to seek after other loves. We remained unfaithful. And we fear that God will toss us away, because we know that’s what we would do as well.

Yet, luckily, God doesn’t love like we do.

The story that Hosea becomes an image for is of God as a wounded lover who doesn’t respond out of anger, but out of love. God becomes the wounded lover who travels out into the wilderness that we have created and woos us back. God speaks tenderly to us. God offers us gifts and security. God woos us in order to win back our love. God doesn’t wait for us to recognize our sins and repent. Instead, God travels into the wilderness to rewrite our story. God comes to us and says, I will change your name. I will call you Ruhammah, the one to whom the Lord has shown mercy. I will call you Ammi, for you are my people. God takes the initiative to pursue us, even as we run away. And God promises to love us back into the family.

God’s love for us is true love. God doesn’t wait for us to come back from our self-inflicted exiles. Instead, God pursues us with a relentless love that says “I love you no matter what you’ve done, and I love you too much to leave you in your sin.” We are the people of the Lord, not because we’ve earned it, but because God loves us too much to leave us in the wilderness.

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John Poch’s most recent book of poems is Dolls (Orchises Press, 2009).  He teaches at Texas Tech University.

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Below the Possum Kingdom Dam,
this stretch, like a housewife
toward a happy anniversary, hurries
certainly, knowing how steadily,
far but sure like an ocean
gussied up with palms and mangroves,
anhingas patient on cypress knees,
phalaropes anxious for circles,
in circles, fate waits.

She has encircled me
with her bare arms, and her eyes
don’t worry like a canoe
tied to a river island. Her eyes
are wet and quick like a swallow
skimming the river with a little splash.

In shadow the wind on water
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