Firefox, the excellent browser from the Mozilla project, has been upgraded to version 1.0.7. If you’re using IE or an IE-based browser, it’s long since time to have switched. This release is billed as a security and stability release, that’s normally a good reason to upgrade your system if you’re already a Firefox user. Bueried […]
Category: Software Development and Testing
Jon Udell: The tacit dimension of tech support
…in which he actually does a great job of describing one of my strengths. Sometimes it’s not what you know but what you can find out. I’ve often said that “being an expert isn’t always about knowing the answer as much as it is about knowing where to find the answer.” It’s a good article, […]
Setting Unix File Ownership from Perl
Here’s a little bit of Perl code from a module we use. These functions are used by our cron-driven Perl scripts to (re-)set file ownership after they’ve finished working their magic. They’re probably nowhere near perfect and I welcome any suggestions you may have to improve upon them. Feel free to use this code in […]
Don’t Code for One, Code for All
Stopdesign: “Developing for IE initially, then trying to retrofit for other browsers will increase time and cost in the long run. But there’s a better way to approach development that’s faster and less costly.” As Phil put it, “Web standards, man. They produce results.”
On Online Forums
Josh L. at Microsoft has been doing some investigation into online forums – what makes them successful or not – and has collected the results so far into an excellent post entitled MVP Summit Views and Issues with Threaded Discussions. His findings include a couple of items, including one that I’d guess would surprise most. […]
Enabling an FTP Server
Scott’s using Windows XP Professional and wants to know if he can have an FTP service running. Sure he can, and so can you. Microsoft included an FTP service with Windows XP, it just doesn’t get installed and enabled by default. Adding it to your system will let others, using an FTP client, connect to […]
HTTP Redirect
For refererence, as we keep needing to do this and forgetting how… here’s the “HTML” for a client-side page redirect (change all the square brackets to angle brackets, of course): [meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”seconds;url=url”] in the [head] section. Sample: [DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN”] [head] [title]Jumping to new page[/title] [meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”2;url=http://my.new.home/somewhere.html”] [/head] [body] …