Today was a reminder of how much I can forget. I have been working on a quick little report to help a group of people here at work. Nothing special, but I was adding some nice functionality to make updating things easier.

Basically each result row had 2 check boxes. Where they could check or uncheck either of them and it would update a table in the background. No biggie I thought, of course I had been developing it in Firefox and Chrome and occasionally in IE 8, and everything previous to the check boxes worked fine in all the browsers.

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I think I have a fairly robust sense of humor, and as a web developer I can show it off sometimes. For anyone who’s built forms you know what I mean, you use a test person to use while validating and working out any bugs in your form. My current favorite is Fargus Munghammer.

Coincidentally, my wife is pregnant. She’s still a ways away from giving birth (July/August), and as such we really haven’t picked out a name yet. We went to our first ultrasound the other day and found out what the baby would be, and as it turns out it will be a boy. I use to just call it “the boy”, but this time I thought I’d go with Fargus Munghammer as a temporary  name holder. There is a problem though;

What should we name the boy?

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