Last week a colleague at work was interrupted by Windows asking him to activate his copy and verify his license details. It looked real and was certainly very professionally done, however there was something not quite right about it. The first screen very carefully tells you that your copy of Windows XP has been activated […]
I have been looking for an elegant solution for this for a while, one that doesnt have limitations like forcing you to have fixed width divs because thats the size of the background image. Of course in the old days we did this with an extra table row but that was just painful. I am […]
Here is a discovery that I came across recently while working on a clients mass mail system. I upgraded to Outlook 2007, and being the first to do so in the office have been discovering some of the cool new features. And it was all very cool until close to the clients deadline and I […]
Recently I set up a SubVersion server for my company, and with all good things comes some pain. Authentication, compatibility of components, backup, training, hardware are some of the things you have to take in to account. Its not an easy thing to do, setting up I find takes a few days and maintenance is […]
Are you thinking about starting to use Source control such as SVN or CVS for your company or work? Your first decision is SVN or CVS – let me help, SubVersion. Plenty of other people discuss why, so go find their articles. But should you do it yourself? Or should you go find someone to […]
We recently had a compatibility issue with a design that didnt quite fit in Safari. Example, lets assume you have 2 divs inside a container. This will have the right div flush against the left with no gap between. This is because browsers except Safari assume the container takes up 100% of the space it […]
Sometime last year Microsoft posted this patch to windows 2003 allowing Office 2003, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint to access and save files in the Office 2007 format. Office 2007 compatibility pack for Microsoft Office 2003 Dead handy for those who are still on Office 2003 but know people or co workers using Office 2007.
We recently had to work out how to display a random quote from a table in the database. Clearly we could have created a random number with CF and then simply retrieved that row or id from the database, but what if the rows didn’t have consecutive ID’s? We came up with this solution in […]
I have recently changed places of work and was given the task of setting up version control, in this case Subversion (SVN) for our development team. I started learning about this a while ago through a number of avenues form the WebDU conference, and a number of ColdFusion mailing lists. Version control systems solve a […]
East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national “In case of Emergency (ICE)” campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston and in association with Vodafone’s annual life savers award. The idea is that you store the word ” I C E ” in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter […]
If you havent heard already Firefox is taking the world by storm as the new Internet Browser to rival Internet Explorer. Developed by Mozilla – who claim that “Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser.” I have now been using firefox for at least 6 months […]
At work recently we were getting clobbered by some nasty virus or other (there are so many I cant even remember the name), and all attempts at cleanup using Norton Anti Virus were not getting us very far. In a desperate attempt we tried a demo version of McAfee Virus Scan and came up with […]
Recently I started to get a lot of junk in my in-box through the contact form. This was all generated by spam bots on the net so I added in the new feature of human evaluation by use of the image with a number on the contact and comment forms to slow the junk entering […]
