Eagle owl

Eagle owl

Really excited to have seen this eagle owl yesterday and today (it’s in the wild, somewhere in the South West of England).

It was too dark to get a decent photo last night, but we did see it fly off at dusk – a pretty impressive sight. So we went back this morning to get a photo in daylight.

No comments Posted on 2 November, 2008, under Photos

IE6 gzip bug: solved using ISAPI_Rewrite

I've recently turned on gzip compression for all static pages on my web server running IIS6, and am now enjoying faster speeds and lower bandwidth.

However, in my investigations I came across a number of bugs in pre-SP2 IE6 (no surprises there) which means that gzipped CSS and Javascript files can be improperly cached and so intermittently mangled.

Not wanting to turn compression off just because of problems with this (thankfully declining) travesty of a browser, I hit on a way of bypassing compression for the affected browsers.

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No comments Posted on 31 October, 2008, under Miscellaneous

Woopra plugin for Mango

I've created another plugin for Mango - this time to integrate Woopra tracking and analytics.

Woopra logoWoopra's currently in beta, but I've been using it for some months now and it looks great; and with an API due to be opened up soon, there are lots of groovy features to come...

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No comments Posted on 17 October, 2008, under ColdFusion, Mango Blog

Back with a new design…

It’s been an embarrassingly long time since my last post, but I’m back now and have finally got around to building a custom skin for Mango.

I expect the design may be tweaked here and there over the coming weeks; but I just wanted to get it out there to see how it looks…

I also hope to devote more time to developing for Mango now, so watch this space!

2 comments Posted on 14 October, 2008, under Miscellaneous, Mango Blog

ColdFusion 8 CAPTCHA plugin for Mango

Another plugin for Mango Blog...

If you've got ColdFusion 8, you might like to use its built-in CAPTCHA generation instead of using LylaCaptcha (Mango's default). You can see it in action on this blog.

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5 comments Posted on 16 January, 2008, under ColdFusion, Mango Blog