Archive for November, 2006
The Man In Blue
Posted by KMFNJ | Filed under Journal
Gorgeous website featuring the work of Cameron Adams, a self described Web Technologist from Melbourne, Australia. I love this website - it is a beautiful, elegant design and has lots of neato stuff.I happened across it while searching for a javascript page loading analysis utility. But I love it when such a search becomes a beautiful distraction.
Thanks Cameron!
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Technorati Tags: inspiration, webtools
(Really Easy) Form Validation with Prototype
Posted by KMFNJ | Filed under Toolbox
I believe simple is better and don't make me think (too hard, anyway)... This article gives an excellent demonstration of how to do simple form validation using the Prototype library. The source code is available for download at the author's site.Technorati Tags: ajax, prototype, development
TransferBigFiles.com
Posted by KMFNJ | Filed under Toolbox
TransferBigFiles.com is an absolutely rockin' file transfer service for anyone trying to send larger attachments (up to 1GB!) without the hassles of single email file size limitations.Technorati Tags: webtools
Why You Shouldn’t Check Your POP3 Email Too Frequently
Posted by KMFNJ | Filed under Tutorials
By "too frequently" I mean checking less than every 5 minutes or so. This may or may not be so much a problem these days, but it is something I've run into at work recently, so I thought it was worth mentioning.Checking your email account every minute or less causes massive traffic on your ISP's servers and degrades quality of service, not only for you but for other users as well.
This can also cause problems such as duplicate emails because if the POP3 check doesn't finish within a minute, you've already got another one scheduled right on top of it that may end up duplicating what wasn't completed in the prior session.
Editing the Send Receive value in Outlook:
I "borrowed" these images from: http://www.1planhost.com/support/s_mailpolling.asp
If anyone over there has a problem with that, you can send me an email and I'll gladly remove.
To edit the time that Outlook automatically checks the server for new messages, please do the following:
In Outlook, click Tools, then Options...
A new window will open. Click the "Mail Setup" tab at the top. Then click the "Send/Receive" button as pictured below
Next, edit the "Schedule an automatic send/receive every" value to be 5 or more minutes (I actually recommend TEN MINUTES)
Technorati Tags: outlook, email, bestpractice
Get Sweaty Hot Spaghetti
Posted by KMFNJ | Filed under Music
Jonezetta is a decently okay rock band with a slightly electronic twist (and maybe even a twinge of emo), not terribly unlike the music of the group Muse, which I happened upon over the Thanksgiving holiday. Current single is "Get Ready (Hot Machete)" which can (of course) be heard on their MySpace page. Oh and duh, thanks for asking - Thanksgiving was lots of fun. Lots of great time spent with family on both sides and even got to see Joe for Thursday and Friday! Good night, I need to post more pictures on this dumb thing... Ah well, all in good time I suppose.
Web 2.0 Fonts
Posted by KMFNJ | Filed under Journal
An excellent summary of "Web 2.0" logotype and identity design trends
List Subpages Update
Posted by KMFNJ | Filed under WordPress
I ran into another problem with the List Subpages Plugin.Basically when you uploaded a file to a page the plugin "thinks" there's subpages underneath... while I don't fully understand why this was, I piddled around some more in the code, and by modifying line 42, came up with this workaround (new code is in red):
if ( $subpages > 0 && wp_list_pages("child_of=$parent_id&echo=0"))
Hope this helps somebody. (Maybe I'm just talking to myself? haha)
sIFR and Adblock Plus
Posted by KMFNJ | Filed under Toolbox, Tutorials
AdBlock Plus is a great extension Mozilla FireFox browser (among others) which enables users to block annoying/unwanted ads on specific (or even wildcard) websites. sIFR is a GREAT tool to incorporate custom fonts into the headings of web pages - awesome for taking that custom look and feel of your website one step further. The problem arises when a user with AdBlock visits a website using sIFR to display custom fonts. Since many ads on the 'net are Flash based, and sIFR relies on Flash to display the custom font headings, AdBlock thinks the custom headings are "ads" and displays and ugly tab that can totally disrupt formatting. There is, however, a workaround for this which I found on the official sIFR wiki.
/* Hide Adblock Object tab: the text should show up just fine,
not poorly with a tab laid over it. Conveniently, the object
tab is always in a div, so we hide all divs directly inside
the replaced element.*/
.sIFR-replaced > div { display: none !important;}
Yay! No more AdBlock display issues!
“Royale with Cheese” as Shakespeare might have written it
Posted by KMFNJ | Filed under Journal
As some of you may already know - "Royal with Cheese" is a famous scene from the movie Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarrantino. This discussion was found by my friend Eric, which is a (very well) written adaptation of the scen... but with a Shakespeare twist. Enjoy!
Search Pages Plugin
Posted by KMFNJ | Filed under Toolbox, WordPress
Search Pages is a WordPress plugin that makes search queries look at pages and posts both instead of only posts.