Just a warning: I’m now going into sales-pitch mode. I do not work for the One Account but I think it’s brilliant (well, brilliant for me, I take no responsibility if you listen to me and end up huge great hole of debt). Having said that, I could get some money if you sign up and say I recommended you but that’s not the point of this post. Really it isn’t. That *would* be nice though…

I went on a brief trip to Toronto a few weeks ago and a friend of mine asked for recommendations on things to do. Here are mine - please make add any comments/suggestions Things to do

I recently hit this snag when working with Dojo. Basically I wanted to set the checked status of a checkbox on a webpage programmatically. Simple you might think? Apparently not as easy as it should be.

Interaction with checkboxes has changed slightly in Dojo 1.1 (apparently) but myCheckbox.setValue(true) should be valid. When calling dojo.byId('my-checkbox-id').setValue(true), I was getting an error saying the method didn’t exist. The object was definitely the checkbox as I could determine the correct checked state from that object (myCheckbox.checked) so I was very confused. I then remembered another way to access objects with Dojo is using the HTML attribute ‘jsId‘. This creates a global javascript variable referring to that object in the DOM. So I set something like jsId='myCheckbox' and then called myCheckbox.setValue(true) and it worked!