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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Copy Generated Source Bookmarklet or Favelet

I wanted something simple to allow me to copy the generated source:

javascript:(function(){ var y = document.createElement('TEXTAREA');y.value = '<pre><html>\n' + document.documentElement.innerHTML + '\n</html>';y.createTextRange().execCommand("Copy");})();

Works in IE only.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Livecycle ES - ALC-DSC-110-000: com.adobe.idp.dsc.registry.endpoint.EndpointStoreException: endpoint registry failure.

Well, this error was the bane of my existence this evening. Anyway, when you get this error you'll find that workbench will not allow you to delete or remove the endpoints or category associated with the processes you were trying to remove. To clean out the rest of the data, you have to turn to the database and write some custom SQL to get the orphaned records out of tb_sc_endpoint where the name is the one you're trying to get rid of manually and tb_sc_service where id is the name of the one you're trying to delete.

To recap, if you get the ALC-DSC-110-000 error when trying to remove a process / orchestration and need to manually remove the remaining records delete from the tb_sc_endpoint and tb_sc_service tables where name or id is the process you were trying to delete when you got the error.

I hope that makes sense, feel free to post any questions you may have as comments.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

VW 1-liter Car - It's Coming by 2010!

The 1-liter car from VW is so named because it takes a mere .99 liters to propel the vehicle 100 km. That translates to about 235 MPG! Hypermilers move over, hybrids and fuel cells hide in shame, this car was originally prototyped in 2002! Now the car will be produced in small quantities by 2010, I've not found anything that says if it will be sold in the US, but if it is I'm getting one!

Back in 2002 I emailed Volkswagen and offered to drive a slightly-modified version coast to coast in the United States on a single tank of gas. It would only need 12 gallons of gas to get from New York City to Los Angeles! If I could get my hands on one I'd drive it with one of those mini-laptops and a pcmcia card for broadband access and set up a digital camera on the dash so that the world could see the entire drive from coast to coast (accellerated of course). I'd have to make sure that the camera also showed the fuel gauge and the odometer. I'd blog about the trip and post the videos. Long story short, they wrote me back and told me that they appreciated my interest in the car.

Now, the big news is the car is greenlit for production at the automaker's prototype shop, which can only produce 1,000 cars per year max. They're aiming for pricing 20,000 and 30,000 Euro ($41,200 to $61,800). They've made a few changes from the prototype; however, the stunning mileage numbers are not expected to change hugely.

Well if anyone from Volkswagen is reading this post, the offer still stands. Let me show that car off from New York City to Los Angeles!

If you're as passionate about the 1-liter car as I am you may want to check out:
The Original 1-liter Press Release
Ferdinand Piëch - The car exec that made it all possible
Ferdinand Piëch - 70th Birthday Press Release
The Wired Article About the Re-release
The Dallas Fox Article About the Re-release
The CarCentral Article About the Re-release
The Autoblog Post About the Re-release
A VW page about the 1-liter car

Friday, June 20, 2008

Will It Blend?

OK, so I found this website and I have to say I think it's pretty dang funny:

Willitblend.com

Basically, this happy looking guy takes everything under the sun and blends it with a blender. It's kind of like watching a trade show demonstration.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Blogger Blogspot Pages scroll too much

OK, so, I just realized it's entirely possible some people have absolutely no idea why I went to the effort of making the posts script and the sidebar widget. It's simple really, when I read other peoples' blogs I find myself scrolling around like crazy. I hate scrolling, so I decided to come up with a solution to the problem rather than just complain about it.

Now, on this blog, you'll likely still do some scrolling (especially on long posts); however, you won't do as much with the navigation scripts place. It's kind of like tab-navigation for your blog.

http://blog.benfinnigan.com/2008/06/blog-post-navigation-script.html

http://blog.benfinnigan.com/2008/06/interesting-sidebar-widget.html