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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Sep
18
2010

Solving error n8156-6003 when trying to play Netflix Watch Instantly content.

This is mostly search engine bait, because I couldn’t find a solution on my own when searching, but managed to stumble across it anyhow. I recently did a Windows 7 x64 reinstall, and after doing so, Netflix wouldn’t play in any of my clients – Windows Media Center, Chrome, IE, you name it. After various [...]

By Chris Heald | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments (5)
Sep
05
2010

Write-once read-only fixtures for Rails tests

In the project I’m currently working on, I’m heavily using factory_girl to generate test data, rather than using the old Rails fixtures standby. However, I still have a set of read-only fixtures (which are used for testing read-only models against a legacy database). I’m using these in my tests, but since they are read only [...]

By Chris Heald | Posted in Rails, Ruby | Comments (0)
Sep
02
2010

Pain-free CSS3 with Sass and CSSPie

So, you have a great design for a site. Lots of rounded corners, soft shadows, and beautiful gradients. “This’ll be fun!”, you think. Enter IE. “Oh, crap”, you think. Modern web design in IE is a pain in the rear. Fortunately, we have modern tools that make it a not-pain. SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) is [...]

By Chris Heald | Posted in CSS | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)