Some of the design choices in Office 2007 really baffle me. Some simple tasks just cannot be completed without jumping through so many hoops. I can’t understand why this isn’t on every website in the entire world! But, I hope this helps some of you out: Go To: My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > File Types [...]
Author Archives: Donnie Bachan
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Be strong, The waves vibrate And message delivered. Fear abandoned, The source is I.
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IE 7/8 PNG-24 transparency issue
We came across an error today with our drop down menu system that uses a PNG-24 semi transparent drop shadow image around the border where the transparency would appear black in IE 7 and IE 8. After searching and trying all possible fixes we found the solution to the problem and it was quite simple. [...]
Posted in Browsers, ColdFusion, Design, Javascript, Programming Tagged Browsers, CSS, Development, Javascript, jQuery 2 Comments
Nandos, chicken and customer service excellence
I’m a big fan of Nandos, it’s comfort food that’s a little better on your arteries than KFC, what else could you ask for? A few weeks ago my wife as accidentally charged twice for our meal. She only discovered this after reviewing her bank statements which happened to be a week later. She promptly [...]
Memory leaks with Coldfusion 8
For the past few weeks I’ve been incognito due to some memory leak issues we’ve been having with our new app. It is essentially a rewrite of our existing web application using Object Oriented techniques and embraces the Model-View-Controller paradigm. It really is a pretty little thing but unfortunately she crumbled under the weight of [...]
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