A while back we made the move to managed source control (in our case Subversion) hosting and having done some hunting around we found CVSDude. Despite slightly surferesque name the company seemed to have a shining reputation from blogs, mailing lists and on their own site. Looks like a great deal right? Well yes it […]
I have a job where ad-hoc client support via email is a regular occurrence. Taking screen shots of sites and particular screens to help explain the sometimes random and crazy words that come out of my brain is always helpful for the hapless recipient of my ramblings. So I went on a hunt for a […]
Trying to get a local network talk via a VPNto another internal network is not something I want to try and do again in a hurry. However – once I had my local machine at home chatting nicely with our hosted production server network I realised that something came to my attention that hasn’t for […]
I recently moved my site from PHP over to ColdFusion, and this gave me a nice warm fluffy feeling. However, some of the articles I posted actually received a fair amount of traffic, so I had to leave a few php pages in the system and ask them to redirect to the new and improved […]
I have recently signed up to both of these sites, for different reasons, but have been stunned when my chosen user name of length has been accepted on both sites. I would have thought that sites like this, with so many users, someone would have claimed that username long ago. My Technorati Profile and my […]
With so many extensions out there and so little time to choose them I thought I would share the ones I have installed and use all the time. FireBug Simply a must have for any web developer, allows you to inspect the webpage, its elements, css, script, downloads size and speed, edit css, script and […]
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 […]
