mike's Blog

Well – we’ve had the need for a spell checker for our blog, comment and review text areas for a while – we initially integrated FCKEditor but I found it’s interface a bit garish and it didn’t work in Safari at all so I went and took a look into TinyMCE again.   They have a very simple and nicely implemented (google gmail style) spellchecker that works as a plugin to the TinyMCE framework.   

The problem with the plugin is that out of the box...

Wilco's coming to town Well in my almost 3 years in Springfield, I'm finally getting to go see a national act right there in town. Wilco is playing at the Shriner Mosque Auditorium (BTW, what are Shriner's anyway??). I've been wanting to see these guys for years and the other night I went downtown to get ice cream with my family and saw a poster on a telephone pole. So today I just bought 2 tix for general admission. The venue is really small so the show should be...

Gusto's new Gusto Grabber and how it's changed my life. First off I must say that I was one of the developers who wrote the gusto grabber code so it may appear that I have bias. That being said, I've not worked on a software project where the outcome has been so much fun to use. I know have a way to keep all my travel related bookmarks in a simple to organize system and allow them to be shared with anyone who is interested in where I've been and...