Hacking FireFox 2 Menus

Today, I was inspired to hack the context menu in Firefox 2.0, removing "Send To" and "Send Image". I googled for a solution, and found step-by-step directions for Firefox 1.0. So, I started digging, and the over-all instructions were good, but I only needed to comment out the menu options in browser.xul, and not touch the javascript in browser.js. The original instructions were a bit vague, but in the end, it worked!

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How does Rails scaffolding select HTML input tags?

Recently, a reader saw my fix for SQL Server booleans, and asked me a followup question: why does Rails display a yes/no selection instead of a checkbox? The short answer is look in {RUBY_HOME} /lib/ruby/gems/1.8 /gems/actionpack-1.10.2 /lib/action_view/helpers, but your path may vary depending on whether you are using gem, "edge rails", etc. Anyway, look in the file "active_record_helper.rb" for a method called "all_input_tags", and notice that it calls "default_input_block" if you don't supply an input_block. Now notice that "default_input_block" creates a label and calls "input(record, column.name)" which in turn calls "InstanceTag#to_tag" which finally looks at the datatype and maps boolean to a select tag. Perhaps a wiser Rails explorer can provide us with the rationale for this, but I guess we could add a MixIn for InstanceTag that redefines the to_tag() method, or just do a dirty and unmaintainable hack l...

Castle ActiveRecord with DetachedCriteria

My current development environment is Visual Studio Express C# Edition (read that as free ), Castle ActiveRecord's latest svn trunk(usually within a few days), and NHibernate svn trunk. As of NHibernate version 1.2.0, there is a very cool new class out there ... DetachedCriteria. This class lets you set all of your Castle relational attributes like BelongsTo, HasMany, etc. as lazy fetch, and over-ride this for searches, reports, or anytime you know ahead of time that you will be touching the related classes by calling detachedCriteria.SetFetchMode(..., FetchEnum.Eager). As a good netizen, I have tried to contribute to NHibernate and Castle ActiveRecord even if only in the smallest of ways . Oh yeah, I tried mapping to a SQL VIEW, and it worked GREAT! I received a comment after my last post, indicating that there is a better way, and I am sure of it, but the view guaranteed that I only have one database request for my dataset. NHibernate was wanting to re-fetch my missing as...

Destiny 2 - The Corrupted Nightfall

== Overview == This Dreaming City Nightfall is already considered one of the most irritating strikes, in part because of bugs that sometimes prevent players from proceeding to the next encounter. Notable bugged areas are the transition from the Elevator to the Knights Steps, and after the passage, the temple sometimes doesn't reveal a way to the shadow realm where you will take your leap. Important Note: After a "de-buff" from Particle Deconstruction, shoot the boss in the head! It is quite effective, and can melt her with some coordination. Champions: Unstoppable and Overload Shields: Arc, Solar and Void (many shields!) Don't place your well in the open where boss can snipe the sword! She will break your super. Pass the "Relic" (Orb) twice to maximize damage. == Loadouts == General: * Add Taken spec to every weapon Titans: * Bottom Tree Solar + Path of the Burning Steps or Phoenix Cradle * Sentinal Shield + Ursa, Aeon Gauntlets Warlocks: * Stasis + Blea...

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