I dislike the use of Flash for most business web sites. In this case I will make an exception. This Dutch site, HEMA - online winkelen, has one of the best and most amusing uses of Flash. It is worth the wait!
Entries from January 2008
HEMA - online winkelen
January 31st, 2008 · No Comments · CSS/WebDesign
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Javascript Code Highlighter: Chili vs SyntaxHighlighter :: PseudoCoder.com
January 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · WordPress
Today I tried to get Chili to work on this blog. I post code occasionally and Chili was appealing to me since it uses jQuery for most of the heavy lifting. I was hopeful that Chili would be quick and incrementally increase the amount of JavaScript downloaded. Chili didn’t work for me. It had syntax [...]
Tags: CSS/WebDesign·webdesign·WordPress
Shadowbox.js Media Viewer
January 27th, 2008 · No Comments · CSS/WebDesign
Shadowbox.js Media ViewerI_CRE8 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:00:00 GMT
This looks interesting but it is considerably larger than my current jQuery lightbox plugin. Since I do not use flash or the other media the plugin supports, this plugin has limited benefits for my personal use and most of the web sites I maintain. [...]
Using VBA to create import files for QuickBooks
January 24th, 2008 · No Comments · QuickBooks, programming
A couple of years ago I created some spreadsheets to help me migrate data into QuickBooks. I set up a worksheet that followed the IIF format and then saved it as a tab delimited file. The biggest problem was that one row of data required three rows in the IIF format. If you try and [...]
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WordPress › jQuery Lightbox « WordPress Plugins
January 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · WordPress
I just changed out one of my WordPress Plugins. I generally use thumbnails of my images and let a plugin called Lightbox show a larger image when the image is clicked upon. Today I replaced WP Lightbox 2 plugin with jQuery Lightbox plugin. I was hoping to reduce the amount of JavaScript the page downloads [...]
Linux Tip: Replacing GKSUDO for CENTOS users
January 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Linux
One of the annoying things about maintaining CENTOS installations is performing system maintenance as the super user from the command line. Don’t get me wrong but I was programming before graphical interfaces(BGI). The command line is a good and trusty way to perform maintenance. As long as everything works you can get by with a [...]
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Changing ownership and deleting unknown accounts from objects
January 18th, 2008 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
Yesterday I decided to fix an old problem. I had some directories and files with the unknown accounts in the access control lists(ACL). This can occur when you migrate user files to a new server. The easy way to fix this problem is right click on the directory and follow the menus to change ownership, [...]
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NewsGator, FeedDemon are Free!
January 13th, 2008 · No Comments · General
Through the grapevine I heard that FeedDemon is now free! Since GreatNews has been crashing on me recently, I decided it was a good time to give FeedDemon a try.
Greg Reinacker just announced that NewsGator Outlook, FeedDemon and all the NewsGator clients are now totally free! The NOT-FREE thing about FeedDemon has always been [...]
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Getting a L2TP VPN connection to work through the Comodo firewall
January 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Security
I have been using the Comodoâ„¢ Firewall for over a year now. My experience with it leads me to believe that it is more secure than others on the market. I really liked its flexibility and monitoring capability. When the beta for version 3 came out I enthusiastically installed it. I was surprised and disappointed [...]
Aaron Stebner’s WebLog : Automated cleanup tool to remove the .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5
January 8th, 2008 · No Comments · QuickBooks, SBS
A big thank you goes out Aaron for his automated cleanup tool to remove the .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. Yesterday I found myself in “No Man’s Land”. My PC was trying to install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1(KB110806). It did not work and complained about not finding 2.0a. The [...]
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Installing Live Writer behind a ISA firewall
January 5th, 2008 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3, Security
I like Live Writer a lot but it is very hard to install when you are behind Microsoft’s ISA firewall. I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out what ports I needed to open in the firewall so that the Live Writer install program would install. All of my attempts ended with the [...]
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When Microsoft’s recommendations do not fix your userdata persistence error(0×800A0046)
January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · SBS, Security
About once a month I go to the Windows Update and let it check my computer. If Windows Update is working properly, the Windows Update cupboard will be bare. Sometime in December Windows Update stopped working for me and it started giving me a userdata persistence error. The help system said that all of my [...]
Notes on Setting up the Eclipse C++ IDE on Linux
January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Linux, programming
Since I had recently setup my laptop with C++ version of Visual Studio 8 Express, I was curious about setting up a similar IDE environment on Linux. I initially tried to set up Anjuta DevStudio and I failed miserably. I am running CentOS 5.1. There does not appear to be a recent RPM of Anjuta. [...]
Tags: Linux·programming