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  • IE 7 and Google Maps :: A Quick Fix

    Posted on :: Aug 3

    I was fixing a Google Map at my job, when it was reported by one of our Clients, that the Google Map was 'Broken'. The client reported that the map was only half-displaying.

    I opened up Safari, Firefox and Chrome and everything seemed to work fine. That’s when I realized I forgot to test the site in IE.

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  • Flash, PDF zero-day attacks

    Posted on :: Jun 7

    Adobe issued an alert late Friday night to warn about zero-day attacks against an unpatched vulnerability in its Reader and Flash Player software products.

    The vulnerability, described as critical, affects Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems.   It also affects the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems, Adobe said.

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  • The 4C’s of Web Failure

    Posted on :: Dec 8

    Website design and development are highly technical fields. But even the most seasoned professionals can sometimes completely miss the mark, creating sites that fail to fulfill their value-generating promise. And, more often than not, this failure is caused by a lack of low-tech strategic thinking and analysis.

    In a rush to launch sites, we can forget to examine four foundational topics: culture, customers, cost, and complexity. When poorly managed, any one of these can become the root cause of Web failure.

    In this two-part series, we will examine the 4 C’s of Web failure and how to avoid them to improve your chances of seeing a positive return on your Web development investments.

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  • Browser Labs

    Posted on :: Nov 18

    A wonderful co-worker had intriduced me to this excellent tool online for assisting me in assuring that a site we're building renders properly in Internet Explorer, It's called BrowserLab.

    BrowserLab provides web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on demand. BrowserLab is a powerful solution for cross-browser compatibility testing, featuring multiple viewing and comparison tools, as well as customizable preferences. Since BrowserLab is an online service, it can be accessed from virtually any computer connected to the web.

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  • Browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE6

    Posted on :: May 1

    This news may come as a shocker to the tech savvy folks in the house, but 60 percent of companies use Internet Explorer 6 as their default browser, according to Forrester Research. Meanwhile, your IT department spends a decent amount of time erecting barriers to prevent browser upgrades. Bottom line: Companies need a browser policy or they will risk productivity losses. 

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  • Chrome/Safari Gotcha: Nameless Form Fields

    Posted on :: Apr 29

    In ColdFusion, you can loop over the keys in a structure without knowing what the key names are, by using either this syntax:

    <cfloop collection="#myStruct#" item="key">
       <cfset foo = myStruct[key] />
    </cfloop>

    Or this syntax:

    <cfscript>
       for (var key in myStruct){
          foo = myStruct[key];
       }
    </cfscript>

    This is useful when you need to loop over a form with dynamically created fields — like editing N person records at a time.

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