QuackFuzed [ Ramblings of a Con..ColdFuzed Mind ] - General

Disabling the God-Awful "Emergency Alerts" on a Samsung Galaxy S2

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:53:00 -0700

I've had my Galaxy S2 for well over a year now, and until yesterday I had never even heard of an "emergency alert" on a phone. I was focused on something when suddenly the silence was pierced by my phone screaming at me and a message popping up about an AMBER Alert. [More]

cf.Objective() 2013 Call for Speakers

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:32:00 -0700

The cf.Objective() Content Advisory Board have just officially opened the Call for Speakers for the 2013 edition of The World's Only Enterprise ColdFusion Conference. Last year we had speakers from all around the world: USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Switzerland, France, Germany, Australia (and probably others that I'm not remembering) were all represented. This is the year for YOU to speak! [More]

XUbuntu: Setting Default "Open with..." Application

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:05:00 -0700

I want to use the various Libre Office products as my defaults. XUbuntu wants me to use something else. I win. [More]

jQuery next()/nextAll()/siblings() + dialog() Gotcha

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:31:00 -0700

So today I was writing up a simple little form hint with a jQuery UI dialog popup with more details on the hint. The code was actually quite simple: [More]

XStandard + jQuery

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:37:00 -0700

We have used XStandard for many years now, and always used a JavaScript-free setup. When Firefox 4 came out, everything stopped working; the editor content was no longer being posted back to the server. [More]

Firebug: "missing } after property list"

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:46:00 -0700

So I was doing some "quickie" JavaScript today, using jQuery, of course. I scribbled out some code. Then I decided to change the way I was going to handle it, so I commented out little bits and changed the code. I then decided to go back to my original idea, and uncommented everything that I had previously commented out. Or so I thought. [More]

I am Attending OpenCF Summit

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:18:00 -0700

Living here in West Texas is kind of remarkable in a lot of ways. The savage beauty of the desert plains is remarkable. But nothing is more remarkable than the fact that out here you are 6 hours from anywhere, yet 3 hours from absolutely nowhere. Albuquerque - 6 hours
El Paso - 6 hours
San Antonio - 6 hours
Austin - 6 hours
Dallas/Ft. Worth - 6 hours
Oklahoma City - 6 hours
But drive 3 hours in any direction, and you're still in the middle of absolutely nowhere. [More]

Getting Google Apps Calendar Events to Show Publicly

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:20:00 -0700

I have been struggling to get a Google Apps calendar to show the event details publicly. All I could ever get it to do was show up as "Busy". Thankfully I just found this post that gave me the secret ingredient that I was missing. Since it was such a huge help for me, I decided I would pass it along. Read the post

cfUniForm - Right-Aligned Labels and No Asterisk

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:16:00 -0700

I sometimes get asked questions like "hey, man, how can I right-align labels with cfUniForm?" or "how can I change colors?", etc. The answer is: override the CSS! That's the entire purpose of Cascading Style Sheets. Here's a quick example of how to override a couple of default behaviors with the Uni-Form specification (which is what cfUniForm is a wrapper for). [More]

Google Assists Me In Eradicating Internet Explorer

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:25:00 -0700

When I am elected President, the very first order of business on the agenda, to be established by Executive Order within 30 minutes of taking office, is to make ownership and/or use of Internet Explorer a crime, carrying a mandatory death sentence on the first offense. IE is one of the (if not *the*) biggest steaming piles of crap to ever make it to mass production. IE is, by my estimation, the single-most cause of web developer headaches on the planet. [More]

Google Apps: Too Many IMAP Connections

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:08:00 -0700

I recently moved all of my email over to Google Apps because I was sick and tired of fighting spam. Everything worked great for about a month. Now, however, I am perpetually locked out of my email - whether via a desktop client or via my iPhone. This is obviously utterly unacceptable. I have searched and searched and searched the Google forums and documentation, and cannot find a &*(&@^## solution. I can, however, find lots and lots of threads and posts of people having the exact same problem, with absolutely no solution being posted. So I now turn to you, my fellow CFers, in hopes of an answer. A) Do you use IMAP with Gmail (regular or Google Apps) and have found a solution to this issue? B) Do you use another IMAP mail service (free or not) that you can and will recommend? I look forward to your responses! UPDATE (10/6/09) It boggles my mind that Google is trying to get companies to pay them for email (and other) services when they refuse to even attempt to support their services. With so many people using both the free and paid Google Apps services experiencing the exact same problem, the issue is obviously a serious one and if Google intends to play in the corporate email/document world, then they had better get their act together and start servicing their offerings. After being held hostage by Google for five days, I decided that enough is enough. I am now quite happily paying Rackspace $34 per month for MS Exchange hosting. I no longer have any email headaches whatsoever. Spam? Gone. Lockouts? Gone. Google? Gone. :-)

Outlook and IMAP: Keep a Copy of Sent Messages on the Server

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:18:00 -0700

I have used POP ever since I got my first email account all of those years ago. It always served me well. Besides, I have always been somewhat of an email packrat and by utilizing POP I have been able to save essentially every email I ever received or sent dating back well over ten years.

Gee, maybe one day I will actually need to find something in one of these ancient emails.

Well, last week I got hooked on the Gateway Drug To All Things Apple, otherwise know as the iPhone. You see, prior to last week I had never even touched one. I refused to because of the exclusive agreement between Apple and AT&T. You know, the one that was signed seemingly the next day after I switched away from AT&T service (after being with them for many years). Anyways, I feared that if I stopped and played with an iPhone I would be hooked and could not settle for anything else. [More]

CSS Plugin for Eclipse?

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:44:00 -0700

I hate Aptana. The damn thing just takes over your Eclipse install and does everything that you tell it not to do. The only thing I ever used it for was CSS code coloring and insight, but today I had enough and uninstalled it. As a result, I am now looking for a CSS plugin again. Any recommendations? [More]

CF 7.02 + Apache 2.2 on Windows XP Pro

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:39:00 -0700

Okay, I admit it. I'm a WinDoze guy. I even have the property patch. Well, kinda. When it comes to me being the server administrator, it has to be WinDoze. Sorry boys and girls, but I don't come from a network background, or even a programming background, so I like point-and-click. I'm comfy in that realm. Start talking shells and all of those other "big words" that pertain to *nix, and I'm lost. That said, I am looking to justify the expense for my first MacBook Pro and/or iMac - but we'll save that for another time and post. Last night I suddenly realized that I *really* needed to either (a) upgrade my development machine to WinDoze Server, (b) purchase some sort of add-on software, or (c) load Apache. Since Apache is free, I opted for (c). Here is a (somewhat) quickie overview of why I needed to make a move, a couple of links that I followed to get it done, and a couple of "gotcha" notes. [More]

My Top 10 List of Favorite Songs

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:55:00 -0700

While there are literally hundreds of songs that you'll hear me say "this is one of my favorites!" about, and thousands more that I can be heard saying "I love this song!" about, there are only 10 that are good enough to make it on this list. [More]