I'm trying my best to keep things relevant... Well, maybe I'm not. Anyway, as you can tell.. or maybe you can't I don't know, this is yet another Non-Coldfusion, non-Techincal, non-helpful Post.. Hey this blog is "Random" isn't it?!? Well, I've decided to try and improve my picture taking skills. When building websites, you always find yourself in need of some picture or image you don't have. I've never been a good photographer and... well.. these images aren't necessarily good. But The bug … [Read more...]
Life in the 1500’s
Submitted by: James This is fairly interesting... don't know how true but, interesting: Most people got married in June, because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. … [Read more...]
Flash Parking
Need to practice parking? Well, Here is a neat little work day waiste of time for you.. Fun with Parking!! … [Read more...]
CSS Image Restrictions
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...]
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...]