Robert Owen — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap
I’ve been playing around with my site again. Trying to work out the beauty of my urls. I thought they looked pretty good… Well, similar to what I’m used to from BlogCFC anyway. The urls were like this: www.owenwebs.com/index.php/xxxx/xxx/xxx etc.. Which is not too bad… Better than the default: owenwebs.com/?p=13 or something silly like that. But, I’ve seen them better … Read more
Last night I downloaded and installed Google's new browser, Chrome. I plan on putting it through the ringer today and will, if possible, use it as my primary browser. My initial impressions are pretty positive. The download is simple and quick. There is a 400ish kilobyte installer that you download and run. That installer then brings down the rest of … Read more
I just ran across this video and thought it deserved a re-post. Have you Hugged your Developer today?
I was having some trouble today getting a flash file to work. I was trying to stream a FLV (Flash video) file and although it was working great on my local machine it would not stream when I loaded it up on my server. The SWF file would play, well.. the controls would come up but the file wouldn't stream.. … Read more
Sorry for the utter lack of posts! The holidays were extremely busy! I hope that Santa was good to all… No Coal in the stockings? Well, here is my yearly reminder. If you are still doing it manually…. Don’t forget to update the copyrights on your website(s). If you are still doing it manually.. Then QUIT IT!! Save yourself some … Read more
I’ve been pulling my hair out for a few days looking for the Coldfusion CFX tag for PayFlow Pro. I’m moving/upgrading a customer’s webstore and the old cfx tag would not work on the new server’s CF installation. So I had to get a more current tag. Only, PayPal no longer supplies the Coldfusion SDK and they don not have … Read more
Ever had to move an SSL to a new server? Well I have and, I can never remember the steps. I end up spending and hour or so just looking it up on the web so I can accomplish this 5 minute task. It's pathetic really. But, once you get them installed moving them is not something that you do … Read more