Using fonts with CFImage
One of the more useful bits of ColdFusion (version 8 and above) is the ability to dynamically write text as an image. As you can imagine, there are nearly...
SQL Data conundrum - please help!
So, I need to chart this "change over time" graph. And I feel like it should be really easy, but it's totally breaking my brain how to write the query to...
15 years of web development! (Bloor & Bedford)
I was reading Mark Pilgrim's Post on the history of the <img> tag & realized that yesterday (November 1st) marks the 15th anniversary of the...
Better redirection
For sites powered by the Pencilneck CMS, we've for ages and ages had what we called "Friendly URLs". These are common across CMS's, blogs, etc (some...
Installing root Certificates for ColdFusion
This another one of those post-this-here-so-I-don't-have-to-google-forever items. In May of this year, Verisign introduced a new intermediate root...
BCHydro Power Outage Alerts: A suggestion
Today, when the power went out at work, the first thing I did (after getting my laptop tethered to my phone) was to go to the BC Hydro Power Outages page,...
Greasemonkey VPL Catalogue Listings Script for Amazon
So David Eaves posted "5 Municipal apps I'd love to see". One of them was an extension of an existing Greasemonkey script to search local library...
The power of Twitter & the "Ellen Effect"
So, on Thursday, one of my clients, the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association (VOKRA) was linked to from the Ellen DeGeneres Show's Blog, after being...
French (and other) accents in Mac OS X
So I only just learned this, and so thought I'd pass it along for others, and also, as a handily searchable record for myself, so here's the list: Accent...
Women in tech I admire: Lauren & Emira
So today is "Ada Lovelace day", a brand-new thing, to celebrate women in Tech, something that is definitely an issue, as many have pointed out when...