Finally! A YUI Book to Help Me Get a Handle on this Stuff

I am working through Dan Wellman's book Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library: Develop your next generation web applications with the YUI JavaScript development library.

The examples in it are not any better than the examples provided online for free by Yahoo!. However, the accompanying prose really helps me 'get' what is going on with the code. This means that I am finally starting to understand what I am doing with these YUI controls and am not just copying and pasting and hacking to make things work.

As much as I hate Javascript, now that I understand it a bit more, the fear and loathing is starting to diminish. And, when I'm done, I think I will have a pretty sleek Scheduling application written for ZMR.

Yet Another Reason I Love Apple

I tried to backup my iTunes music. I really did. I had it on an external USB drive. I set up Carbonite (which doesn't backup external USB drives :( ) I also started synching my library to my husband's using the new Family share in iTunes 9. But, when the roof sprung a leak and destroyed my USB drive and many important components of my beloved Macbook pro, I found I hadn't quite backed up enough.

I had heard rumors that the iTunes store would grant a one-time only re-download of my entire library in case of just such an emergency. I emailed them with my tale of woe, and less than 24 hours later, I am downloading everything I have ever bought from iTunes.

Now, I won't compare them with Audible, which lets me download my stuff whenever I want as many times as I want because I am just feeling too much Apple love. Now, I just need to figure out a way to earn enough money to fix or replace my beloved Macbook Pro.

iTunes 9.0

iTunes 9 is out, and if you have and iPhone, this is a very worthwhile update. Apple gave us an interface within iTunes to organize our iPhone apps. I helped hubby get his phone updated and organized, and even he was impressed.