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I will be retiring this blog (yes, it will be the second retirement) and it is partly inspired by Jason Calconis of Mahalo. However, I plan to resurrect it in some other form in an effort to rebrand it and will hopefully stick to a handful of topics. I will probably maintain links to the existing blog for keepsake.
Adios!
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I know IE6 is ancient but there are a still a lot of folks that still use these outdated browsers and the PNG issue was affecting the design of one of my sites. I had tried almost every PNG fix out there and finally decided to give up and let the trapped IE6 users suffer the fate of their choice. However, it still bothered me that there wasn’t a good solution for it. I finally decided to give a JavaScript solution hosted at code.google.com a try and although it worked, as the disclaimer warned - it didn’t support background positioning or background-repeat. I was using background positioning and this messed up my design. I did one more search on google before I decided to give up and stumbled upon my earlier tested IE-PNG fix website. But this time, I stumbled across the “beta” version of IE-PNG fix which stated that it supported background-positioning. Excitedly, I downloaded it and gave it a shot and within 5 minutes, I have a perfect website in IE6. Now, I can finally sleep in peace. And it’s about time!
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I encountered this issue again and despite creating a duplicate (and changing the display name to match the file name), it didn’t resolve the issue. But this time I was fortunate to find the solution online after wasting another 3 or 4 hours. It just requires making sure the display name is different from the file name.
Thanks to Raih.com - http://raih.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=26
Today, some perfectly working coldfusion code started acting up and I got the following error
"Duplicate file name.....
… Hint: you may have mapped two namespaces with elements of the same name to the same package name. It is recommended that you use a web browser to retrieve and examine the requested WSDL document for correctness. If the requested WSDL document can’t be retrieved or it is dynamically generated, it is likely that the target web service has programming errors. “
I found very few others who had run into the same issue and despite clearing the cache and clearing the webservice, the error persisted. It was also listed in House Of Fusion and a few other forums but noone offered a solution.
I wasn’t able to find the cause of the problem but I did find a solution. I just created a duplicate file and renamed it and called that for the webservice and voilá, it worked.
So, hopefully this will benefit some Googler and save you some time if you aren’t able to figure out the problem.
Aside from that, I came across a really beneficial Javascript tutorial at Mozilla. Don’t get me wrong, after years of programming involving javascript and other javascript libraries, most of it was known but the part that I liked was the examples explaining how “prototypes” work. I have read other tutorials on “prototype” but none of them really stuck in my head like this one (or perhaps, I have read so many tutorials that this time it was bound to be stuck in my head). Regardless, it explains the concept of prototypes and how functionality can be added during run-time very well and in small explanatory steps. As the article title states, it is a good “re-introduction” for any javascript developer unless you are in the likes of John Resig, the creator of my all-time favorite Javascript library - JQuery.
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That’s right… you heard it here first. 
Looks like Yahoo is in the process of acquiring Facebook to combat Microsoft, Icahn and its valiant requests to dissolve the current board.
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