Posted on Wednesday, 23rd January 2008 by admin
I got my first taste of virtualized Operating Systems.
I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 as a host environment. I wanted to be able to run IE7 as we are going to need to support it soon, while still having access to IE6. Other environments like Ubuntu were needed also. I stumbled upon VirtualBox from [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 16th January 2008 by admin
Anti-spam and CAPTCHAS are increasingly important for blogs these days. If you are using Visual Foxpro and the Web Connection framework, this function will get you started on using the Akismet API to reduce the amount of spam comments you get on your blog.
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Posted on Wednesday, 16th January 2008 by admin
I was excited to get a chance to work on a new website off/on for the last few months. The Salem Clinic website hasn’t been redone since 2001 and needed a face lift. Thanks to help from members of the Open Designs community it was finally completed in December 0f 2007 and launched in January [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 15th January 2008 by admin
I read a lot of articles and blogs everyday using Google Reader. I had about 500 articles this morning, but this was definitely one of the more interesting ones. Dreamhost accidentally billed every single customer as if today was 12/31/2008 because somebody fat fingered the manual running of the automatic billing system. In all, customers [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 10th January 2008 by admin
I tried one of those fun “How old is your blog?” sites and it came back with this…
My domain is over 6,000 years old, in case you were wondering. Thank you for playing!
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Posted on Wednesday, 9th January 2008 by admin
Is someone trying to game StumbleUpon for a profit? or to cost someone money?
I was stumbling this morning while working on a problem in my application when I came across a stumble to NewEgg.com that piqued my curiosity. The URL looked like this…
It would seem to me that the user that discovered the page intentionally [...]
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Posted on Monday, 7th January 2008 by admin
I’ve posted about crazy Oregon weather before, but after watching this, I’ll take it.
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