This blog is an ongoing project by Mike Maddaloni, president of Dunkirk Systems, LLC, to archive the myriad of tech tips and resources he has collected along his 10+ years as a Web developer.
If you’re like me, you don’t want to put your personal photos up on a public photo sharing Web site, or even Facebook.
Allow me to recommend Gallery. It is an open source photo site where you can upload photos, organize them, and control who can see them. Check it out for yourself – it’s straightforward to install and use.
Easy Musicplayer For Flash, or EMFF, allows you to embed an MP3 file into a Web page to allow Web visitors to play the file without downloading it locally then playing it.
Twitter Counter offers free stats and widgets to track and promote your Twitter account. They also have paid services which build on these services. The button below is the count of followers for my account, @thehotiron.
CFLib.org is a ColdFusion common functions library project created by Raymond Camden. Its stated purpose is to create a set of user-defined function (UDF) libraries for ColdFusion 5.0 and higher.
Would you like to see all the fonts installed on your Windows PC? Use the AMP Font Viewer to list as well as preview them. It can also install and uninstall fonts among its features.
The Cost of Downtime Calculator is an interesting tool to calculate how much money your company could lose during system failures. For most of us, this would be Internet access. This will more than prove you should go to a coffee shop when your access fails!
If you ever encounter issues or errors when upgrading your version of Mozilla Thunderbird and you just happen to have a Logitech Quickcam, it may not be a coincidence. Try unplugging your camera and shutting down its software and retry the install and it should work. Trust me on this! I had looked up this issue in the past and cannot find the referencing documents when I was making this post, but I can verify it works!
BrowserHawk is a server-side (and now hosted) application for detecting everything about the visitor to your Web site – the platform, browser, resolution, etc. I have used this tool in the past and it is well worth the cost to learn everything about your users. You can use this detection information to determine what is presented to the Web visitor. It works with most all Web scripting languages.
