Kindle – Grown Up Gameboy (GUP)

Acer Aspire R3600 Review?

This would be a really neat Device and its already in Stocks here in Germany, shipping for 299 EUR.

I’m wondering why

1.) There are no really good reviews out there (Nor infos on the manufacturers site)

2.) They didn’t mount a slim Optical Drive

3.) Atom n330would have been a better alternative to the mounted 230

Acer says they will be selling an alternative with a bigger (250 GB) hardDrive and more Memory for 330 EUR. Lets’ hope they Change to the n330, add the slim Drive and i’ll get one immediately.

simple scriptaculous Autocomplete with DWR & select – Boxes

coming across this really nice scriptaculous autocomplete feature on

http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Autocompleter.Local

i wanted a simple solution to use this Function. I’m using DWRUtil.addOptions to fill my select boxes with values. These selectBoxes already serve as proposal-Values for the correlating Input-Fields. So i had all the data needed to create a nice type-ahead system, without performance – impact, already loaded onto the page.

i’d didn’t want an Ajax – request to be sent out each time the user types in a letter. So the only thing i needed to do was to parse the data provided in the select box and give it to the Autocompleter.local. For that purpose i created a simple javascript function named “genAutocomplete” that is being called after the DWRUtil.addOptions.

// configGroupSelect: the select box filled by DWRUtil.addOptions

// configGroup the input field, filled by the autocomplete

// config_list the div-id with the suggested values

function genAutocomplete(){

var mySelect= document.getElementById(‘configGroupSelect’);

var i;

var resultArray=new Array();
for (i=0; i < mySelect.options.length; i++) {
resultArray[i] =mySelect.options[i].value;
}

new Autocompleter.Local(‘configGroup’, ‘config_list’, resultArray, {});

}

Rubén Parés-Selders