Just discovered the <abbr> HTML tag a nifty way of inlining your abbreviation explanations. It allows you to unmystify TLA's with the abbr HTML Tag. You need to hover over the TLA to get the abbreviation. On my blog the abbr tag doesn't change the text colour to...
I have been using Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com) and Box.com (http://www.box.com) to share files with people. Dropbox has great Linux support and integration into the Gnome Nautilus file manager. Box is good too but is more Windows / Mac Centric and I think...
I'm currently transferring a Formtrap Forms Server to a later version and I want to run the new and old servers in parrallel for a while so I have added a heap of printers onto a Redhat 5.5 Server pointing to the new server. The trouble is that all the settings aren't...
Update March 2015: It appears that Scribus' support for bwipp is now broken the control characters you need to insert correctly formatted barcodes now seem to be ignored. So I can't get a valid GS1-128 barcode by using Code-128 and inserting the correct Symbol start...
I'm in the process of creating a Perl script that sends configuration commands to a SATO printer via a Moxa networked serial port. My problem with the development process is the Moxa and SATO Printer is in a Tin Shed that climbs to 35° C plus. It's not much fun...
Today I tried to run the following javascript using jQuery 1.4.2 on IE8 under Windows XP Pro SP3: // returns 'pallet' tabname var tab = get_tab(); // returns 'pallet-item' text input field var target_field = get_target_field(tab); // works in firefox and chrome but...
In the Beginning I have been employed in my current role since 2004. When I started, there was a generic PC running Netware 3.11 Server the files on which were soon transfered over to SBS2003 running on a noname server with IDE disks. Within a year I had imaged and...
A lot of the Jim Rohn video's on youtube are 1-7minute sound bites but this one over an hour. Here are some notes I made on the the "The Magic of Part-Time by Jim Rohn" Correct the errors of the past and pick up new disciplines for the future. 1. Law of averages...
Dia the opensource diagramming programming program. Has a lot of shapes. However I always seem to use ones that aren't in the standard or diashapes repository. So I've created a 2 new shapes for myself using the howto here This is a good site for more technical...
Another entry to add to my HTML 5 Framework List is Wakanda. My frustration with jQuery UI is that you have to hand code the pages. Wakanda appears to have an IDE that allows drag and drop of widgets onto a canvas and the configuration of datasources and classes that...