Monthly Archives: July 2008

July 30, 2008
Latest Firefox breaks FarCry 3 context menu

If the following describes your environment, this a reminder to upgrade and use the latest Farcry:

Using Mac (OS X Leopard)
Using FarCry v3
Using Firefox and have recently upgraded to version 3.0 or 3.0.1

The reason? Well the new upgrade of Firefox 3 has broken the webtop context menu. You can see the menu, but none of the [...]

July 25, 2008
Wordpress for mobile devices

Wordpress is one of the most used blogging platforms around. One of the great things about it is the community support including the countless plugins you can use to enhance your blog/site.
Particularly with the iPhone and other smart devices, mobile web seems to be experiencing a surge in traffic and importance to businesses. Although a [...]

July 22, 2008
How do you lock your screen on a Mac?

Call me crazy, but it doesn’t seem like you can “natively” lock your screen on a Mac like you can on Windows. Very odd and annoying as it’s something I do everytime I leave my workstation, I’ve even had to agree to a policy that I will never leave my workstation open as I have [...]

July 21, 2008
InetAddressLocator problems with FarCry 3

Took me a little bit to find the solution for this across several different board posts so I thought I’d quickly write it up.
For those of us still using FarCry 3 (remember that FarCry 5 is out!) you may come across the following error:
“java init failed: net.sf.javainetloca­tor.InetAddressLocat­or”
The docs tell us:
Geolocator is a plugin that determines [...]

July 19, 2008
Another reminder of the importance of preventing SQL injection

Mark Kruger has another interesting and timely read about an ambitious SQL injection attack one of his clients recently experienced.
One things for sure, it’s certainly an *interesting* time to be a developer. Hackers and spammers make sure of that
SQL injection has been around for so long, it is truly a crime if developers [...]