IE CSS td:hover Hack

Firefox, Safari allow CSS td:hover state, Internet Explorer doesn’t. There has been an .htc hack made to work-around this issue. Available here: http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/50660

CPanel clean-up/remove spam-box with cron-job script

Here is the shell command for removing all the spam-boxesfind /home/username/mail/ -name *spam* -exec rm ‘{}’ \; -print Note the orange text indicating where you would put your admin user name. This clears all the spam-boxes (spam files that Spam Box generates to hold all the spam as determined by SpamAssassin… if you have used… Continue reading CPanel clean-up/remove spam-box with cron-job script

MS Vista “showcase site” has work-around for the IE ‘click to use flash’

Microsoft decided to release a critical update several months back that modified Internet Explorer so users cannot directly interact with Microsoft ActiveX controls loaded by the APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT elements. Users can interact with such controls after activating their user interfaces. Basically, IE blocked flash from running right-away. A dot-border box with the phrase… Continue reading MS Vista “showcase site” has work-around for the IE ‘click to use flash’

Best Firefox extension for Web Programmers

FireBug is an extension for the Firefox web-browser. It is amazing for debugging XML, XHMTL, CSS, JS and just to generally inspect your code. Don’t take it too seriously though as IE bug-fixes and workarounds always generate errors. Get FireBug for Firefox.

XML vs. JSON

XML – Looks like this: <user> <name>tom</name> <last_name>jackson</last_name> <email>[email protected]</email> </user> vs. JSON – Looks like this: user{name:tom,last_name:jackson,email:[email protected]} JSON reminds me of how a lighttpd configuration file is able to hold script in it. Meaning the file that hold information, holds simple code so you have less info to process. JSON can send arrays. So instead… Continue reading XML vs. JSON