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.
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.
We heard from the folks at Broadband Speed Checker about their service and they asked us to check it out and if we would add it to sourcegate. After trying it out, we felt it would be well-worthy of this service to pass it along.
Do you need to know what your IP address is to the outside world? Here are a couple of tools to help. One is WhatIsMyIPAddress.com and the other is whatismyip.com. I know – how clever. Choose the one that works for you.
