June 29th, 2010 by Robert Radtke
Just a little heads up for all of you charging ahead on your (forced) upgrade path.
Blackberry and Outlook 2010 do not play nicely. If you’re using a Blackberry with the desktop manager software along with Outlook – upgrading to 2010 will break that setup. According to blackberry it’s a known issue but they have no resolution date as of yet. More info…
OS X Snow Leopard now has Exchange support. But only Exchange 2007 – so plan on an Exchange server upgrade if you want to make use of that functionality.
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April 29th, 2010 by kelly
If you get an e-mail with an attachment of a PDF with hints of having to change your e-mail settings, don’t open it as it has a virus payload.
Here is a good writeup on how it works for those that are curious:
http://blogs.iss.net/archive/maliciouspdfspam.html
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April 21st, 2010 by Robert Radtke
McAfee DAT 5958 Update Issues.
If you’re using McAfee and your machine is really acting up – you may have been affected by the DAT issue described in the above link. Included in the article are directions for a fix.
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February 26th, 2010 by Robert Radtke
If you run a windows domain in your office – you must use Windows 7 Business or Windows 7 Ultimate. If you’re purchasing new machines for your office, make sure you get one or the other or it will not work nicely with your office system.
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February 24th, 2010 by Robert Radtke
YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13
I got my notice from Google a few months ago with but it looks like they have a set date for dropping IE6 support – hooray!
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February 23rd, 2010 by Robert Radtke
Just to scratch an itch – here’s a quick and easy script to allow end users to edit content areas on a website. A lot of people end up with complex content management tools when all they really need is the ability to update a little bit of text on one or two pages of their site. This let’s that happen with a minimum of effort.
To install:
- download the script and unpack it in your website folder – or unpack and upload if you don’t have shell access.
- edit the conf.php file to change the default username and password
- make the content folder writeable by the web server process
- on pages where you wish to enable editing. Add the following lines of code to your php file:
<?php include “editor/include.php”; ?> – right at the top of your php file
<?php echo $headers; ?> – at the top of the <head> section of your site.
<?php make_block(‘blockname’); ?> add as many of these inline in your file whereever you’d like an editable block to appear.
- point your browser at http://www.mysite.com/myfile.php?auth=1 (the auth=1 part will authenticate you and enable the editor)
- click on the block to edit and make your change.
Couldn’t be simpler right? or – I can’t think of a way to make it simpler yet.
Shoot me an note or post a comment if you find it useful! – robert at hutman dot net
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February 17th, 2010 by Robert Radtke
Some calm after the storm finally. 2 big site launches this week!
First: A financial services site including a pile of fun jQuery stuff for managing tabbed content and keeping it searchable. We’re really happy to be working with EatonGolden on this one and pushing the envelope with what we can integrate into the HutCMS.
and
Second: http://www.agentedgetraining.com/ uses a subscription model similar to USA Sports Careers. Randy Smith with Synchronicity Web Designs worked through the details with us for building a system for capturing leads from feeder websites and automatically distributing them to website members. We also added special permissions managment to the system for granting access to content based on subscription level.
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December 4th, 2009 by kelly
We will be adding additional storage capacity to our mail server this weekend. There will be some minimal outages lasting just a few minutes at a time while we move to using the new storage from the old storage. Mail will continue to be received during the upgrade but may be slightly delayed during the weekend. Everything should be running smoothly by Monday.
Thanks -
Kelly
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November 23rd, 2009 by Robert Radtke
I’ve been working on a project recently which requires some fairly complex sql joins and calculation gyrations which had me tearing my hair out to get everything to come out right. For some I ended up having to add content to the results programatically. On top of it all, the table columns had to be adjusted based on the result set – so the html layout I was given to work with just wasn’t flexible enough to handle the big variation in results. I was able to solve the whole thing very nicely with the jQuery tablesorter plugin and this scrollable table tool. As long as the results aren’t too long – less than 5000 records or so – I can skip sorting on the server side entirely and leave it to the browser. It certainly simplified the code a ton and the click to sort functionality is much smoother – no resorting to page refreshes to make it happen.
jQuery plugin: Tablesorter 2.0.
http://www.webtoolkit.info/scrollable-html-table-plugin-for-jquery.html
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November 2nd, 2009 by Robert Radtke
Looks like font support might be pretty close which is great news. I can’t wait to start building CSS based navigation that can actually match a photoshop mockup without having to either wreck it with the same old fonts or spend a ton of time slicing images of text. Updating those image based navigation elements a few years down the road will get a ton easier as well. Woohoo!
Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries – Ars Technica.
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