Message to the Masses: Help, I'm looking for a cross browser css solution to limit image display sizes. Ex: A user uploads an un sized photo, the image is 2400px x 2400px. I want to make the maximum displayable size 500px wide. This first example works but, makes every image the same size: This bit works like I want but only in FireFox Internet Explorer ver. 7 but, not in IE 6 without adding javascript or a new CFC is there a good way to do this in CSS? … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2006
Friday Funny
A Little late rolling this one out, but here is the Funny for this Friday. Enjoy. The Idiot Test Scoring guide: 20 Correct - Genius 17 Correct - Above Normal 15 Correct - Normal 8 Correct - Nincompoop 6 Correct - Moron 3 Correct - Idiot Questions: 1. Do they have a 4th of July in England? 2. How many birthdays does the average man have? 3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28? 4. A woman gives a beggar 50 cents; the woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is … [Read more...]
Get an RSS Feed with ColdFusion
Ok, I'm probably last man to the party with this one but I thought I'd share. I can't remember where I found this bit of code but, it is pretty darn handy! If you want to add your favorite RSS feed to your site and have it update dynamically, then this is for you. … [Read more...]
Coldfusion Countdown
Ok. Couldn't end the week being totally worthless.. Here is a nice simple way to "Count-down" from now to a specific date using coldfusion. #DateDiff("d", Now(), CreateDate(2007,2,25))# days til my Birth day. The "d" means days, "Now()" means get the date right now. The "CreateDate" takes the information inside the "()" and makes it a date using the format year/month/day. To output just enclose it inside "# #" and between a cfoutput tag. Add the appropriate text... like my … [Read more...]
Friday Funny
Ok... No productive posts this week.... Still need the Friday Funny though!! Here goes: A three hour tour... The Seven Deadly Sins of Gilligan's Island theory is quite simple. Each of the seven characters on the island represents each of the seven deadly sins. Now, this theory seems to fit upon initial inspection, there are technical difficulties when you get down to THE MAN himself, Gilligan. Run with me on this one.... … [Read more...]
Funny for Friday pt.2
Funny Part 2 - submitted by James: Monastery Life A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be … [Read more...]