Robert Owen — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap
Just how fast IS you connection? I know… your ISP says that you are getting 3meg down x 768 up but, are you? If your Internet connection seems slow, you should do some checking before complaining to your ISP. There are many sites available with Internet speed tests. Internet speed tests let you know how your connection is actually doing … Read more
I got a note this morning about an interesting article over at IT Security. It's been called one of the safest operating systems of all time, but Mac's OS X Tiger may not be as safe as it seems. This list provides its top security issues and how to plug them. They've just released a report detailing some “Holes” in … Read more
One of the things with this Vista machine is the fact that I didn’t have all my trusty book marks from FireFox any longer.
It’s easy to get your Favorites from Internet Explorer… just copy the Favorites folder in your user profile to the new machine and you’re done. But, FireFox…. there’s no file to copy for them. But, luckily in FireFox it’s easy as well.
Just read over at Ray Camden's Blog about a new site released by Rey Bango called GotCFM.com. GotCFM.com is a site dedicated to promoting ColdFusion-related technologies. It is a site for CFML evangelism and knowledge. It is a site that will let people understand why the CF community loves this engine and why ColdFusion-centric technologies *ARE* an amazing choice for … Read more
Trying to keep things simple, sometimes I use the 'max-width' and 'min-width' properties of CSS. Makes it simple if you are letting someone upload images to a site for you. For example, blogCFC has a slideshow function. Here's an example. Ok.. so you've got this slideshow and you are letting someone else upload the images or create totally new slideshows.. … Read more
Just a quick reminder to everyone out there… It's a New Year … (Yippeeeee!!!) If you're still doing it by hand, don't forget to update the Copyright Dates on your web sites. If you're doing it automatically.. Good for you!! Keep up the Good work. Just check to see that it did what it was supposed to do. If you … Read more
I tend to use this little bit of javascript quite a bit so I thought I would share. You can use this little javascript to add a “Pop-up” window effect to links in your website.
For example, if you have a page of product images and Item numbers you can make them link to a “Pop-up” window with the item details.