Author Archives: Michael Sharman
- May 13, 2010
- Removing duplicate rows in Open Office (calc)
I needed to de-dupe a spreadsheet the other day and found a great how-to from google. Thought I’d post it here for my own future purposes: There is no automatic function to remove duplicate rows. Follow these steps to delete all rows that have duplicate values in column A: Select all cells of the current [...]
- May 9, 2010
- IE and underscores in domain names
Ok, a short warning to those who use underscores in their domain names. Underscores you say? Aren’t they illegal characters in domain names? Why yes they are (but I think they’re valid in sub-domains…not sure), but you may find yourself using them in development environments, particularly if you’re doing a re-design. Think something like http://mysite_v2.local/ [...]
- April 22, 2010
- Support Details – tech support management
Ever dealt with a client where you wanted to know their operating environment? Thinks like what operating system they are running (and version), which browser type and version, whether they have JavaScript enabled etc? Sounds easy but for some clients this is like being asked to provide a detailed analysis of early 7th century rock [...]
- March 3, 2010
- Detecting https across Railo and ColdFusion Server
Previously I had a way of detecting whether page requests were being made via ssl but today I came across a scenario where this doesn’t work. Let me explain… Right now we’re looking at developing across different ColdFusion engines, “ColdFusion” of course but also “Railo”. One of the applications we had detected whether a request [...]
- January 19, 2010
- cfhttp issues using “.local” on Max OSX
Ran into an interesting problem today doing something quite simple. Basically all I was doing was posting xml data to a URL, but I kept getting a 408 request timeout and I didn’t know why. We happen to use the “.local” domain name structure for local development. I was posting data from one local site [...]