ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
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Technology

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Internet Explorer: IE7

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IE 7 has been officially released. Here are a few of the reported enhancements to the browser: Simplified User Experience: The Internet Explorer 7 frame is reorganized to make it noticeably simpler, more streamlined, and less cluttered with unnecessary items. This maximizes the area of the screen devoted to the webpages that you want to see and makes performing the … Read more

Javascript Countdown

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Not long ago I Blogged about a Coldfusion method for counting down to a specific date. Well, if you don't have access to a coldfusion server for your site, it's pretty easy to add the same function with Javascript. I found this script at: JavaScriptKit It's really simple to modify. Just modify the “var before ” and “var current” text … Read more

Not Coldfusion….

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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 … Read more

CSS Image Restrictions

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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 … Read more

Get an RSS Feed with ColdFusion

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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.

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Coldfusion Countdown

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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. … Read more