Author Archives: Eli Thompson

About Eli Thompson

You can find me on Twitter. I'm a developer for Cheezburger.com and FAILBlog.org.

Unit testing CoffeeScript with QUnit

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Eli Thompson

I got bitten by the CoffeeScript bug and decided that I liked it enough to try to add CoffeeScript support to Cheezburger.com. Paul Betts’ very cool SassAndCoffee library has a method which compiles CoffeeScript to JavaScript which I could easily integrate … Continue reading →

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Turntable.fm: Mute until next track starts

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Eli Thompson

Drag the link below up to your bookmark bar. When clicked, this bookmarklet will mute the current song in Turntable.fm and then unmute when the next song starts playing. Updated 7/5/2011 – Turntable.fm changed the name of their player control, … Continue reading →

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Events on JavaScript Objects

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Eli Thompson

I did a search for javascript events and came up with lots of articles about onclick and onload and all the lovely things we use to make our pages interactive. But in this case, I wanted a C#-style event, like … Continue reading →

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Building Chrome extensions from a service account

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Eli Thompson

So I got our build system to call the chrome.exe to build my Chrome extension, but it didn’t work. It said: Could not find exported function RelaunchChromeBrowserWithNewCommandLineIfNeeded The build system runs in a web application, so I’d have to guess … Continue reading →

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Still relevant

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Eli Thompson

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged dilbert, new ruling class, official dilbert website, pointy haired boss, strips | Comments Off

Basics of Statistics in SQL Server 2005 – Developer.com

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Eli Thompson

URL: http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3622881/Basics-… I had a table that was too large to get a count of. I tried Select Count(*) from {Table} but the query didn’t want to come back very quickly. Another way to get the size is to get … Continue reading →

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Java Update – Y U NO understand that I hate toolbars?

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Eli Thompson

Java Update, seriously? You want to install Yahoo! toolbar by default? That’s evil and I hate you for it. I’d be OK if I had to click to opt-in. Amplify’d from cheezburger.com See more at cheezburger.com See this Amp … Continue reading →

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I want you all to feel empowered on this project

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Eli Thompson

Amplify’d from dilbert.com See more at dilbert.com See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ivu4

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Reseed the identity on a SQL Server table

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Eli Thompson

I’d rather just take the identity off the table I had to use this on, but this is an excellent solution if you over incremented the identity and need to bring it back. Amplify’d from msdn.microsoft.com The following example forces … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Uncategorized | Tagged dbcc checkident, go dbcc checkident, identity, transact-sql, use adventureworks2008r2 | Comments Off

Enable IIS to serve .woff and .svg files

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Eli Thompson

I needed this functionality, too. Here’s how to do it. Amplify’d from sebduggan.com By default, the MIME types in IIS 6 are configured to deliver EOT (as used by IE) and TTF files. But WOFF (Firefox) and SVG (iPhone, iPad … Continue reading →

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