Blog
Some of my recent posts and ramblings.
Login with email address in Mura
This seems to be a highly requested feature, to allow logins with Email instead of username. The solution, I found is quite simple. The login method is in /requirements/mura/user/userUtility.cfc. Need to override that to check the email column as well. … more
Stunning model airport
Beautiful video of Knuffingen Airport model, has airplanes landing and taking off, passengers walking around and vehicles moving on the airfield.
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Conditional CSS styles for IE6 in the stylesheets
I never knew about this, guess I never bothered to check but you can have conditional styles for different versions of IE right inside your stylesheets.
Source: CSS Tricks
To Target only IE6
To Target only IE7
To Target both … more
Finally found a free syncing note taking app
After looking at so many apps, found the solution at the unlikeliest of places, Microsoft. OneNote now has a web app and an app on the iPhone with full syncing support, none of the ridiculous stuff like Sync only once … more
Amazing time lapse video of an Antarctic Expedition
Form Savior – a jQuery plugin to prompt save of unsaved changes in form
I was tasked to find a way to prevent accidental loss of information if the user navigated away from the page after changing the form. This article from 4GuysFromRolla helped me get started on the solution. But it required a … more
Popular News websites online
CNN is No.1 online at least. NYT is quite low. Surprisingly, the Drudge Report is in the top 10, but Huffington Post is missing.
Bing results are a little different. CNN and Fox are still in the top 3, along … more
Digg seems to be having quite an interesting day
The New Digg is finally coming to everyone. Interesting to see some of the problems with a site refresh.
I get the feeling, this scene is not going to change very soon.
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IE caching ajax responses
Another one from IE. It never runs out of new ways to screw our lives. On one of our sites, the client kept coming back saying the person they just entered doesn’t show up in a dropdown list which was … more
Annoying problem with cfmail inside cffunction
Spent way too much time trying to figure this out. Using cfmail inside a cffunction wasn’t sending out the email. Worked just fine on a cfm page. Turns out, you need to set cffunction output=”yes”. Hopefully, this will save some … more