jQuery iframe auto height plugin

This week I needed to automatically size the height of an iframe to the height of its contents. After a bunch of Google searches I came across this post from Nathan Smith here; It used jquery but applied the auto height to every iframe on the page, I could not use the code out of the box and so the 'jQuery iframe auto height plugin' was born. I made a few slight changes to the original code and wrapped it in a jquery plugin.

Download from github

http://github.com/house9/jquery-iframe-auto-height

see the README file for usage

Geek Desk in Action!

My Geek Desk showed up last week!

I work standing up most of the time, but I do like to sit down a few times through out the day. In the past I used a "Drafting Chair", but they create a funky angle for your legs as your feet must sit on the bottom ring. So far I am really loving the Geek Desk! - check them out at http://www.geekdesk.com/

here is a short vid of the adjustable height desk in operation

and some pics

VirutalBox - Increase the memory on an existing guest machine

I use VirtualBox to run a guest Windows XP machine on my Mac. When I set up the virtual guest I set it to use 512MB of memory. And of course now I decide I want to bump it to 1GB. I could not find anyway to do this using the GUI but it can be done from the Terminal.

When the virtual machine is not running execute this command

VBoxManage modifyvm XP1 --memory 1024

XP1 is the name of my guest machine, so replace with yours. The memory parameter takes the amount in MB, in this case 1GB

The first time I ran it I received the following error message

ERROR: The machine is not mutable (state is Saved)

Last time I turned off the guest machine I had selected the save state option. You need to Power the virtual machine down before you can run this command.

Textmate Go to File now available in Visual Studio 2010

Finally! Visual Studio has a feature similar to Textmates "Go to File" (Command key + T), I love this feature. It means that you rarely need to look around in the project tree for a file, just type part of the file name and bam!

In visual studio it is called "Navigate to" (Ctrl + ,) it takes it one step further and even brings up methods matching the name, not sure if that is a good thing or not, so far so good.

Found out about it here. Guess it has been around for awhile

A code smell - try catch that swallows an exception

Came across a code smell this week - try catch that swallows an exception

and yes the code that it wraps has some issues....

NFL Live Stream Thursday and Sunday night on NBC

Awesome!

does not seem like NBC or NFL is doing a lot to advertise the official free stream, but here we go!

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/26393211