Being a tall bloke at 6 foot 5 inches I have a few nightmares on flying. As a general rule I cant get into standard economy seats without spreading my legs into the aisle and into my neighbours seat. If that happens I am never going to sleep. Its funny though that I drove an […]
I have been trying out the new version of Skype that now comes with video calling. Its a program like an Instant Messenger and allows you to make calls to any other Skype user via VOIP or Voice over IP. You can also call any other regular landline or mobile number by purchasing some prepaid […]
Among the bounty that I swaggered away with after webDU was a webcam from Logitech provided to each participant courtesy of Adobe. Its a pretty neat little thing – a Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks, and it clips nicely to the top of your screen so that it can spy on you all day. Trouble now […]
I am currently at WebDU 2006 – its the premier conference Down Under for Adobe (once Macromedia) and web based developers in the the Rich Application and Web Development spaces. Its been a great start so far with a great intro by Mike Chambers of Adobe to showcase some of the cool new stuff coming […]
Call me a nerd, but I just made it in to the top 15 in the world on the website www.experts-exchange.com for the ColdFusion Topic Area. If you click on the link and look for the box of Top 15 you can see mmc98dl1 in the list (thats me!) I am a long way behind […]
I recently took a voyage of discovery to see how much you could do with the new and improved cfchart. Its really good, with some great features and funky animations, lots of control over labels and axis and a range of interesting charts. Macromedia LiveDocs cfchart. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite enough. The engine Macromedia licensed […]
I was hard pressed to find a fix for the issue that occurs in this ColdFusion Custom Tag cf_twoSelectsRelated originally by Nate Weiss. When you use the emptyText1 and emptyText2 attributes together and want to preselect values the second box wont fill out the values required. I knocked up a bit of javascript you can […]
I just returned from the UK having been over on some family business. Being 6’5″ and not very rich I have to fly economy and hope that the nice check in people will allocate me a decent seat in a bulk head or exit row so I dont end up with some disfigurment after 13 […]
We had a job sent in by email today: Dear Service Desk, My mouse is really slow. It takes 2 clicks to start something or highlight something, etc, etc. I checked out the mouse function in control panel but it still didn’t make a difference. Thankyou.
