It's almost every paddler's dream to paddle down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.  There's just something special about being on a river for 3+ weeks, being gone from civilation, and seeing the amazing places that the Grand Canyon has to offer.  I first signed up on "The List" back in 2005.  At that point, there was a 10-20 year waiting list due to how the list was managed.  In 2006, they implemented a weighted lottery system.  This allowed those who had been on the list a long time to be weighted more than those who were relati

Recently, I created an AJAX web site that had to hide and show a container that had a flash object element inside of it based on the user's actions.

I first created an html block like this:

<div id="flashContainer"><br />	<object></object></div>

Then I created the following two css classes.  As you can see, by default, my flash object is shown and the flash player runs.

The Wenatchee River Festival was this weekend.  I wasn't planning on going, because the river level wasn't great, but I had offered to help out with the festival.  I arrived at the bridge above Snowblind (Goodwin St) around 11:30AM.  That's not a great putin, but it allows you to run Snowblind and Granny's.  It was already 80+ degrees out without a cloud in the sky.

Even though I wasn't feeling up for an adventure, it had definitely been too long since I went kayaking last. So I tagged along with Kennet, Boris, and Jeremy to the Foss River. Since my rack was broken, I even had to have them pick me up at my place.

UPDATE: Many of the features in the Future Implementations section below are in GWT Overlay Manager for Google Maps.

Part 1: Overview

Right now, gasoline, petroleum diesel (petro-diesel), and jet fuel prices are steadily increasing to a point were many alternative transportation methods and fuels are becoming economical.  There are many reasons for the increase in price; shorter domestic supply, China and India becoming automobile based economies, commodities speculation, etc.  The point here is that those fuel prices are going up with no end in sight.

Note: This is not my code, but a friend of mine's.

When writing AJAX websites, developers sometimes need to scroll to a particular element within the DOM on the page. The most common approach, using javascript, is:

Using the Google Web Kit Google Group post, contrib: tooltip listener, as a guide, I came up with a little more general tooltip panel. You can specify a delay before showing the tooltip and/or a delay to automatically hide it after it opens. I've also included the CSS that I use.

Like me, a lot of people want their GWT applications to be able to change locale on the fly. While mine still only has one locale, I wanted to make sure that it could expand to more if necessary. Here's how I implemented dynamic local switching.

First, I store my languages in an XML configuration file, along with some other stuff for the application. A language element looks like this:

Since a lot of websites need to be available in multiple languages, or localized, developers need a way to figure out what language the user prefers. Most modern browsers have a setting in their preferences or options that the user can change. If the user doesn't, then the browser most likely uses the operating system's locale (language and country) setting.