Google adding Chrome Desktop Notification for Gmail

January 28th, 2011 - Cool Apps, In the News

This is pretty interesting, I was in my gmail this morning, and noticed a message that I can enable desktop alerts just by using Google Chrome. Now you can get chat / email alerts without popping back and forth from your work to your gmail account. To activate the feature, go to your Gmail settings [...]

Coldfusion and checking if a variable is Defined

January 26th, 2011 - Coldfusion, How To, PHP, Thoughts & Rants

As I work with Coldfusion 9, I can’t help but keep comparing it to PHP, and I get annoyed by some of the small differences. One thing that I really have been getting annoyed with lately is checking if a variable is defined.  In most cases you could do a simple check, is it empty? [...]

Really cool 404 page on GitHub

January 20th, 2011 - CSS, Javascript, Reviews, Thoughts & Rants

Well I happened to stumble over this fancy shmancy 404 page today at GitHub, and I must say it is simplistic, yet VERY impressive (maybe its the whole starwars thing) but I really like the simple 3D effect that is created by using layered images. Try it yourself, go to: https://github.com/thispagenotfound And move your mouse [...]

Webmojo.ca relaunched!

January 13th, 2011 - In the News, Thoughts & Rants

Woo, well I’m happy to announce that after slaving away on a few dark wintery nights, I have put enough time into building a new version for my consulting company — Webmojo.ca About Webmojo… Webmojo is a collaborative effort by skilled individuals, each with their own unique set of skills and area’s of expertise.  Our [...]

Need some icons for your next design? Grab Fugue Icons

January 10th, 2011 - CSS

Primarily I am a web developer and not much of a designer unless there is a critical need of it (just takes me longer than a standard designer), any who, I really appreciate complete icon packs (complete in the sense that it can be used for a LOT of applications) and not just for ‘desktop [...]

Disappointed with iPod Touch 4th generation camera

December 26th, 2010 - Apple, Thoughts & Rants

As you can guess I got an iPod 4th Generation for Christmas, Santa got me an upgrade from my 1st generation ipod touch (which was well needed). But after playing with it, and taking some photos I was quickly scratching my head. I was confused why a 5 MPX camera was constantly taking shitty photos, [...]

Updating Coldfusion 9 to 9.0.1 on Linux J2EE

December 17th, 2010 - Coldfusion, How To

So I have never done this before, and I figured for everyones benefit I would document the process from my end. I am faced with updating Coldfusion 9 to 9.0.1 for our production server. This server is running JBoss with CF9 running inside of it (J2EE WAR file). Here is the process I took: Downloaded [...]