Matt Ryall's Comments

Re: On a slow boat to China

noemail@example.org (Scott Farquhar)

Mate,

Kim and I won’t be able to make it - we’re sitting by a beautiful lake in Guatemala.

Have a great trip!

Re: On a slow boat to China

noemail@example.org (rmk)

Try and stop by Hong Kong, I went there last year and enjoyed it.

Re: Smart Quotes: library for curly quotes in Java

noemail@example.org (Chris Broadfoot)

Neat, Matt!

Re: Smart Quotes: library for curly quotes in Java

noemail@example.org (Matt Doar)

There’s a reason why everyone is trying to remove them - they’re a hack! Think of it, back in Caxton’s printing office, early 14th century:
“How do we make conversations look different from words we’re referring to?”
“Well, we got this bit of lead that we’re calling a quote, let’s just use two of them.”
“Good idea, maybe three or four can mean other things later on.”

Re: The infamous Turkish locale bug

noemail@example.org (Tom Davies)

More of a problem than you might think: http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail

Re: The infamous Turkish locale bug

noemail@example.org (James Roper)

I reckon the bug is in the character set. If i capitalises ?, then clearly, it is a different character to the i that capitalises to I, especially if there is also another character ? that capitalises to I. If the 3 different i’s were all treated separately, we wouldn’t have this problem.

Re: Wiki visualisations with JavaScript: Processing.js and Raphaël

noemail@example.org (David Sharpe)

Thanks for your article on “JVM? JDK? JEE? Java technobabble explained”: it was useful. I felt silly coding in Java and not knowing the lingo.

Re: Diffie-Hellman key exchange

noemail@example.org (dang ninh tran )

i’m very interested in diffie-hellman key exchange and thank you about your report. i’m trying to make a program which is based Diffie-Hellman key exchange. can you help me ? glad to know you! my email : annd141@yahoo.com

Re: CSS layout fundamentals, part 3: block and inline boxes

noemail@example.org (Ryan)

Just want to make a note (as a recent convert to CSS layouts vs. table layouts… thanks Matt)

You cannot specify a width to a block item inside of an inline element. For example, if you have two inline div’s next to each other and a block div (with a specified width) INSIDE one of the inline div’s, the inline div’s will behave more like block elements:

[CODE]
<style>
#allContent {
width: 900px;
border: 1px solid red;
padding: 5px;
}

#leftNavWrapper {
display:inline;
border: 3px solid green;
margin-right: 5px;
}

#leftNav {
width: 150px;
border: 1px dotted #CC33FF;
}

#mainContentWrapper {
display:inline;
border: 3px solid blue;
}

#mainContent {
width: 750px;
border: 1px dotted #3300CC;
}

</style>

<div id=”allContent”>
<div id=”leftNavWrapper”>
<div id=”leftNav”>Left Nav</div>
</div>

<div id=”mainContentWrapper”>
<div id=”mainContent”>Main Content</div>
</div>
</div>
[/CODE]

Re: Wiki visualisations with JavaScript: Processing.js and Raphaël

noemail@example.org (Matt Doar)

For instance, bugs could be seen in buckets for states