Date: 10/27/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, software, web, linux

Note: This is commercial software, but I am not affiliated or paid for endorsing it.

A little bit ago I started using sshfs which is a open source system tool that mounts remote directories to a local directory via ssh (encrypted secure connection) and I thought it would be cool if there was something similar for the Windows world. After googling and asking a lot of people, the link below was the best I could find. Basically what it does is make a drive map to a remote ftp / sftp server and expose the files there to your machine. The only problem I have with it is the price $20+. It's not exactly cheap, but when your the only person in town with a really useful service, I guess you can set whatever price you want.

Why this is useful?
Before I would use Dream weaver to keep my files sync'd, even when I used 2+ other IDE's and file editing tools. It wasn't exactly perfect but it worked in a half-assed way. Now with webdrive, the files appear local to any tool (Komodo, php, eclipse, python) but when you change them, it updates the remote as well.

http://www.webdrive.com/

Otherwise, anyone know of something cheaper/similar?  The only other idea I had was to use sshfs on my linux server like so remote_files -> local_linux.sshfs -> remote_local.samba -> windows workstation.   If the last sentence didn't make sense, then just know that it would be tedious to do. 

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/365812.html

Date: 10/27/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, web

I just launched a site last week for a new set of web applications that the company I work for has developed. Everything was looking fine, CSS was working fine, things were spaced out. Today I was informed that it now looks all wonky. I haven't touched the code and it doesn't look like our other developer has either. But for some reason now the cellpadding in the table isn't working and the fonts and sizes I've set in the CSS file work in some places but not in others. I can't figure out what's wrong now, when it worked before.

This is one of the offending pages and this is a link to the CSS file.

x-posted to css_forum, webdev

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1182968.html

Date: 10/27/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: css, web

I just launched a site last week for a new set of web applications that the company I work for has developed. Everything was looking fine, CSS was working fine, things were spaced out. Today I was informed that it now looks all wonky. I haven't touched the code and it doesn't look like our other developer has either. But for some reason now the cellpadding in the table isn't working and the fonts and sizes I've set in the CSS file work in some places but not in others. I can't figure out what's wrong now, when it worked before.

This is one of the offending pages and this is a link to the CSS file.

x-posted to css_forum, webdesign

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/366079.html

Date: 10/27/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: browser, web

Texas man says Web browser's cookies prove he was at home online, not at his ex-wife's residence.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6129993.html

Date: 10/27/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: web

URL as found on the net that demonstrates this problem:
http://www.al.mt.gov.br/intranet/BancoImagens/991/Alinor-1.jpg

You'd probably have to have GIMP 2.0 installed to see this problem exactly, but in any case, the URL above sends a JPG image while the webserver sending it swears its an application, so you ought to get a dialog box nonetheless.

SeaMonkey gives me a choice to:
Open with the default application (TheGIMP20)
Open it with [FILLINBLANKBOX]
Save it to disk.

OK, so the webmaster screwed up the JPG filetype and technically seamonkey is acting correctly, I've run into that before, its just one of those things and I guess its better to have the application follow standards. What's odd, however, is that opening the file with the default application has the same results as clicking on a file: it opens in windows picture and fax previewer.

So where is SeaMonkey getting the string "TheGIMP20" from, anyways?

Last I checked, it was called gimp-win-remote or something besides.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/376389.html

Date: 10/28/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: html, web

Hey, any advice would be great.

I started making a powerpoint presentation for the web, but when I save it, it only saves the first frame and the photo on the first frame. I tried highlighting all the frames before I began saving it as HTML, but it didn't help.

Any advice?

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/994282.html

Date: 10/29/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

hi i just joined this group, I'm in my 5th year of architecture. i graduate this year (hopefully!) and know illustrator, photoshop, learning dreamweaver. I started webdesign first by working on my sorority's website, and I love it. I want to be more involved with websites and create more. However i don tknow anysort of scripting. eek!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/366355.html

Date: 10/30/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Hey there folks,

I've just launched my site, (ok a couple of months old)

CrazyBee Multimedia 2006

I'm a part time on the side multimedia designer in London. This is my first serious online portfolio.

Can u folks give me any tips, suggestions, likes, dislikes about it all please?

cross posted to web_design, webdesign, graphicdesign

--
~ B ~

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1183038.html

Date: 10/31/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, web

Student in FBI probe says he created Web site to underscore security problems with print-at-home airline boarding passes.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6130875.html

Date: 11/01/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, web

In the Web 2.0 world, a lack of traditional security alerts means companies have to find a new way to give credit where its due.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6131515.html

Date: 11/01/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, web

Posting it here because it starts to get fucking irritating.

First some stats about my PC
Fujitsu Siemens Computer
Intel Pentium 4 CPU
3.06 GHz
1,00 GB RAM
Window XP
Fritz Box SL
AOL DSL

1.) Fist of all, I still do have the problem that sometimes the host adresses get fucked up. I tried to manage that with someone from that community using hijackthis, we found the source, I deleted it and it worked again. I did that everytime the problem showed up and at some point it stopped working. Now I have to restart my PC every time when I wnat to it be working again (i.e. ebing able to visit webpages without the adresse sgetting fcuked up)

2.) Sometimes it works for the first 5 to 10 minutes after I started my PC, and then I can't open any website anymore, or rather, my PC acts as if I had no connection, but I have, actually. Also AIM and ever yother messenger still does work fine, just the websites won't open anymore. To get it fixed, I have to restart my PC. But isn't there any other way?

3.) Probably I do have a week connection or something (which shouldn't be since I own DSL wtf), but rather often when I want to visit a website firefox (and the aol browser, just tested it) shows me the usual thing, timeout, you know. What to do? It's extremely bothersome.

Help, anyone?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/703479.html

Date: 11/01/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: html, web

I'm looking for an idea to test a site on the cheap--namely without using the expensive testing suites like Mercury or IBM. Maybe if I describe you what I'm supposed to be able to do, you can give me some ideas about how I can go about doing that.

There is a site with 100s of pages in it. I have a word document that I need to check, and verify against this site, and it contains all the word content of the site. The only issue is the word document is not written in a "machine readable" format. It's not tagged, it's not categorized consistently. It's very clear for a human who reads it to get a sense of what page it's referring to, but for a machine it would be pretty difficult to figure that out.

I thought that maybe I can write a script to somehow scope through the contents of the word document (or a "saved as html" document...) and compare it against the pages in the site automatically, in a zip. But that could take time and I'm not really sure I have a good idea of how to go about that. (Maybe use regular expressions and cook up something that slurps up from one and then the other file, and compares them side by side--something of that sort?? But how to do that is the real adventure.)

As I'm so unclear about this now, I thought I'd ask you, great people, if you have found any solutions that might be useful to automatically slurp and test a website as I described.

Any ideas and suggestions, as long as they are about testing, would also be helpful.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/366779.html

Date: 11/02/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: software, web

Very part time designer here- I usually stick to projects that are relatively low-tech since I left my last job with lots of great hardware and software.

However, I just recently invested in a new iBook, CS2 and Macromedia Studio 8 (suuure, I'm a student). Before I was working on a 4 year old machine and doing all my images for the handful of web projects I have in Illustrator and hand coding the rest with a little help from source/layout views. Now I have all these great tools and I'm not sure where to start! I've never played with GoLive before and I'm wading through the tutorials now... It's been several years since I've used Dreamweaver and I haven't gotten a chance to look at this version.

I'm curious what you all are using... Is there any reason to even look at GoLive or should I concentrate my efforts on Dreamweaver? Plusses? Minusus? Good resources to find folks engaged in this dialogue?

Thanks in advance- Brook

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1183838.html

Date: 11/02/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, web

Hi everyone. I just joined the community. I'm still a semi-inexperienced web designer... I started out on Adobe GoLive and have since developed a knowledge of HTML and have started to move from GoLive towards straight coding or at least a mixture of both...

My own website is still rather haphazard, because I began it when I knew absolutely nothing about web design and now that I do, every update is less an update than "OMG let me correct this and make it more sensible."

In any event. A few people have asked me what I would charge to make a website for them. I would love to be getting some income from this, but I have no idea how or what to charge. For those of you who do freelance work, how do you set your pricing? As many details as possible would be helpful--I have no idea what the going rate for anything is.

I hope this post is appropriate to the community. If not, let me know, and I'll remove it. Thanks. : )

x-posted to web_design

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1184241.html

Date: 11/02/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

The Internet luminary and fellow researchers usher in a new project to study the Web's vast social and technological reach.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6132016.html

Date: 11/02/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, css, html, web

I'm working on a web-portfolio function that cycles through a lot of large images that, even optimized for the web, take longer to load than I would like. What is the most reliable/efficient method to preload images in the background?

I am working in php with CSS and (wherever possible) standards compliant XHTML 1.0 Transitional, but I'm relatively new to php. Does php offer any clever new tricks on preloading images?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/507566.html

Date: 11/03/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Company has been positioning itself to supply underlying computing, data storage and other services to Web businesses.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6132283.html

Date: 11/03/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: php, mysql, html, sql, web

I'm working on a Joomla web site project that will be getting national attention over the next two years (it is election-related, with a "test run" for the 2007 election, but the real fun will happen in 2008). I need to find a coder who can help create a Joomla component and module. We have designers for the layout, this is just the backend MySql coding and the front-end component/module code as well as HTML form code for interaction.

As such, I need someone who can hit the ground running with MySql, PHP and understands or can quickly come up to speed with the coding model of Joomla.

If this is you and you'd be interested in working on a high-profile project that will get much national attention, a load of traffic, likely become a reasonably well-known meme, and also actually make some small difference in the screwed-up political process we have here in the United States, please let me know.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/996690.html

Date: 11/04/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser, web

This is old news for most of us and yet when I wanted to quickly find it, it took some searching. So here is, in simple language, what you can do to prevent your web pages from being cached by browsers. Add in your head section (between <head> and </head> tags): <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1"> And then [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-prevent-browser-caching-of-html-pages/

Date: 11/04/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: php, web

We deployed an application on client site yesterday and we faced a really puzzling problem. Some data stored in session variable ( $_SESSION["messages"] ) was returning the data of a global array $messages. Before deploying we thoroughly tested the project on multiple PHP installations, both on out intranet and on the web. We never encountered [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nasty-php-44-bug-in-session-data/