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Give me GOOD HTML snippets please!

Colleen — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:26:39 +0000

Like many blog owners I have a few HTML snippets linking to other sites. For example, everyone and their dog seems to have their own EC drop page nowadays, and in order to be included on it, they want you to paste up a little banner. Topsites and bloglists also have little banners. It seems . . . → Read More: Give me GOOD HTML snippets please!

fb_xd_fragment Facebook Bugfix

Colleen — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:32:52 +0000

My server suddenly logged a rash of weird requests with something like ?fb_xd_fragment= in the URL. This is not good, because if you try this manually it renders a blank page, and blank pages are BAAAAAAAD! So upon googling I found it’s a bug with new Facebook API and (you guessed it) Internet Exploder. Here . . . → Read More: fb_xd_fragment Facebook Bugfix

Tech Support (if only)

Colleen — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:01:49 +0000

This XKCD was too good not to holler about. He just keeps crankin’ em out! And best of all, she’s a girl!

Google Voice “Call Me” Widget

Colleen — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:27:15 +0000

One number to rule them all I have just enabled Google Voice. So now you can call me without knowing my phone number. Now the benefits of being anonymous and invisible will truly come home to roost. Were I Scoble or somebody important, I could not post this widget in public because it would be . . . → Read More: Google Voice “Call Me” Widget

Ms. Burrows’ Mapworks WordPress Plugin

Colleen — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:26:39 +0000

My friend Jillian Burrows just released a MapWorks plugin for wordpress and this is just me trying it out. I think it is just a question of shortcode and perhaps it installs a graphic in the public page to enable you to get more information. You can read the README just as well as I . . . → Read More: Ms. Burrows’ Mapworks WordPress Plugin

Please Excuse our mess

Colleen — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:50:47 +0000

I upgraded from my own home brewed wordpress mu to 3.0 RC3 with multi. They implement multi in fundamentally differenent ways than I did, and I needed to also move some other non blog projects on the dorkage domain around. Needless to say, there will be a few glitches and I don’t have huge chunks . . . → Read More: Please Excuse our mess

How my jQuery Drag’n'Drop Jigsaw works

Colleen — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:17:23 +0000

I had a kind of implied request to talk about the code in this jquery jigsaw puzzle. I sort of figured you can Firebug it from hereif you like, but maybe a little expository prose will enable you to focus on the salient parts of the script. (Sorry the old link got broken when . . . → Read More: How my jQuery Drag’n'Drop Jigsaw works

ACH Fraud becoming ever more clever

Colleen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:57:35 +0000

Last week I saw Hal Pomeranz of the SANS institute give a talk on how ACH (Automated Clearing House) fraud has become increasingly more sophisticated. It is a serious problem and it’s beginning to have a non negligible economic impact on business here in the USA. In this blog post I will summarize the takeaway . . . → Read More: ACH Fraud becoming ever more clever

Random Fiber Arts Dorkage

Colleen — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:00:21 +0000

It’s funny how things confluence. A while back I did a post spreading the word about 2-D bar codes. Just recently I attended Beaver Bar Camp and went to an un-session titled Nerdlepoint by a woman from Portland OR named Julia (sorry, bar camps are so anarchistic that I couldn’t find her full name in . . . → Read More: Random Fiber Arts Dorkage

Adventures in Resource Mining

Colleen — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:14:37 +0000

In my previous post in this series, I described some ancient software that I wrote years ago that I would like to recycle for the web. This post focuses on massaging the existing resources so that they are web-ready. Boring, but critical, and not so easy, as it turned out!

Preparing the graphical . . . → Read More: Adventures in Resource Mining