Adobe’s products have received recent scrutiny from the security community. In fact, many have suggested that their products will be the main target for malware in 2010. Why? Well Adobe’s Acrobat Reader and Shockwave are very widely distributed and many vulnerabilities are being discovered which often remain unpatched for a while. Adobe has some improving to do.
In the meantime, you can protect yourself somewhat and still use Acrobat Reader. These steps do not guarantee your safety but do reduce your risk profile.
Occassionally, I need to load an unrealted model into a controller. There are a number of ways to do this but some are better than others. The following is taken from reply by gwoo to a discussion thread.
“You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here. . . .
I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn’t frighten me.”
A number of my clients use Remository within Joomla for document management. The QuickDown plugin, available from the same site, is used to insert document information within an article. While I have been very satified with Remository, I have not found that QuickDown matches my clients’ needs.
QuickDown basically creates a link to the Remository page along with a variety of document information formatted within a table. Instead, I am usually interested in having a direct download link inserted inline with the article’s content.
“Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgements can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.” — Richard Feynman
As part of a project I am working on, I have added a Sugar CRM help blog to dvector.com. This is specifically designed for my clients but you are welcome to peruse what is there and ask questions.
Every now and then, I recommit myself to actually writing something on a regular basis. Ideally, I would like to post once every two weeks. Sometimes this gets hard, especially when real life interrupts. Some upcoming posts to look forward to include:
Discussion of recent State of Wisconsin bills proposed by a joint legislative committee I participated on.
Various aspects of a Case Management web application I am working on in cakePHP.
Discussion of a Twitter application, I am developing.
Google is the leading search tool and its map service also ranks very highly. It is therefore important that your business appear in Google Maps searches. You may not know it, but your business likely already appears in Google Maps. Not only may it be listed, you also have the ability to adjust your Maps listing information.
It is really a simple process to either add your business or adjust the information that displays. In most cases, it will take you fewer than 15 minutes. This video goes step by step through the process.
In my role as a Red Cross representative, I work with a number of Public Health agencies. At a recent meeting, I mentioned Twitter and stated my opinion — that all public health Public Information Officers should be using Twitter. I got a bunch of blank stares and not because of disagreement or boredom but because out of about 30 representatives only one or two had any idea what Twitter was.
What follows is both a quick overview of Twitter and my reasons why I believe public health should be using twitter. The information is directed to public health agencies but others may find it useful as well.
I have thrown together a simple proof of concept (POC) in cakePHP for displaying cloud words. What are cloud words? Word frequencies displayed in a cloud similar to a tag cloud. A tag cloud may be found on right column of this blog site. The POC may be tested here.
What does it do?
Cloud Words allows for the upload and analysis of plain text and MS Word files. MS Word files are converted to plain text for the analysis. The analysis simply does a count total for each word in the file. A simple word count is actually not very useful since the most common words will dominate the count list. The most common words are generally not very useful for understanding the contents of a document. “THE” is the single word found most often in documents.
Joomla uses a MooToolslightbox in the administrative backend, called SqueezeBox. By default, SqueezeBox is not available to frontend sections, categories, and articles. It is a relatively simple matter to include squeezebox onto the frontend and improve your visitors’ experiences.
It is not required to understand what MooTools and Squeezebox are nor how they work in order to successfully create a wonderful lightbox effect. A lightbox may be used to display a large picture from a thumbnail or any link. Additionally, any web page may be displayed within the lightbox (a great way to display a map or directions).
This article has three parts:
Template setup (not required for GGIS clients)
Using SqueezeBox
Update:
See comment #6 and #7 for a patch to modal.js that makes this work for multiple images on the same page. Without the patch clicking on the next image displays the first image in the lightbox.
