I have recently had a client who complained to me that the site was broken in IE8 even though I had already checked it out. It turns out the issue was M$'s great "Compatibility Mode"

I know my way around CSS well enough but it felt wrong making any changes to keep this IE only mode happy when all other browsers were not complaining. Bing! I had an idea and went to Google and found this document on Defining Document Compatibility.

Turns out I can force the users browser to IE8 mode with the following

Hopefully this will help some other developer with their designing woes.

After all my years with computers this is still true

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From within the settings page of Gmail you can now create rich text signatures including changing font site, text align, style, colour, add images and links etc

Though this has been one (simple) feature missing from the product for a long time its not something I have missed. I know too many companies that abuse this feature and include un-needed images and just streams of multi-coloured text and links. Don't get me wrong, I am happy to see it, I am going to use it, but I am scared to see how some people will implement it.

I've been ill the last couple of days which meant I couldn't really focus on anything too heavy. So with being awake half the night I thought I should just play around CSS3 and it didn't take long till I came up with a pure CSS3 Post-it note made with no images. The only extra library I have used in this demo is Google Fonts for the script text. Code after the note:

Back soon!

Quick discaimer - I have no ideas which browsers this works in. All I can tell you is that it looks good in Chrome and Safari!

A thanks for @bigmadkev for this little on topic gem!

Man walking along kicks a tin can and out pops a genie.

"I will grant you one wish" says the genie.

"I want to live forever" says the man.

"I can't grant wishes like that" the genie replies.

"Ok, I want to live until England win the World Cup" says the man.

"You crafty sod". replied the genie.

Which also reminds me of one other joke
What do you call an Englishman at the World Cup Final? The ref.

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I thought I had posted this one already, but I can't reference to it though that might be because I've been up since 4:20am with my brain ticking over like mad? Enjoy!

Patrick O'Malley hoisted his beer and said: "Here's to spending the rest of me life between the legs of me wife!" - and he took home the top prize for the best toast of the night.

In bed later that night, he told his wife: "Mary, I won the prize for the best toast of the night." She said, "Aye, Paddy, what was your toast?"

So he told her: "Here's to spending the rest of me life sitting in church beside me wife."

"Oh," she said, "that is very nice, dear."

The next day, Mary ran into one of Paddy's drinking partners in the street. Mischievously, the man said: "Did you hear about your husband winning a prize in the pub the other night for a toast about you, Mary?"

She replied: "Aye - and I was a bit surprised. Till now, he's only been down there twice. Once he fell asleep, and the other time I had to pull him by the ears to make him come".

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I had a weird error this morning.

Named Sql parameter 'state ORDER' used in the query not found in the queryparams

Below is the code I had and it look fine to me:

After staring at my code for a while and realising that doing that wouldn't fix anything I butchered played around with the syntax and found that after the WHERE clause you need to keep your SQL on one line. Making the following change to setSQL() fixed the problem:

I can't seem to find a reference as to how your SQL should be formatted but it seems the new line plays around with the deliminators and the way the named params are found.

I'm posting this now but will hopefully later find time to look in on query.cfc in the com/adobe/coldfusion folder under customtags to find the actual reason

There are a ton of ways to stop spam on blogs. This is my dirty (and not pretty) solution that I am adding to stop the recent wave of crap that is getting through the front end checks.

The long term plan is to put a back-end on this but for now here is v.00001

n.b. If you are on BlogCFC then this is for addcomment.cfm

I never seem to remember that GetTickCount() gets the unix epoch time which is the number of seconds elapsed since midnight proleptic Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970 (from wiki