- Author: Bryon J. Noel
Debugging a website can be a difficult thing, especially if it is complicated in layout and function. Fortunately, there are tools that help greatly with this. Firefox is an excellent web browser, included in it are the options for "Add-ons". These add-ons are written by other users to be able to do things that the web browser does not do by itself. Today I will show off a web development Add-on called "Firebug".
Firebug is designed to help web developers and designers debug their sites. As a tool Firebug is very powerful and I will only brush the surface of this Add-on.
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- Author: Bryon J. Noel
I would like to announce a New Feature! Not a new feature some of us grew used to going to the drive-in or movie theater to see the latest and greatest horror or sci-fi movie. No this new feature (we hope) will blow your socks off and is what everyone has been waiting for. At least all those with Sitebuilder sites! Oooh, the first clue! Now that your fingers are all tingling with the excitement of anticipation. I would like to take a moment to say this would not be possible without Dave and Karl who also work on Sitebulder to make it happen. So what is this new fandangled feature? It's a mix of two flavors. In one hand take the blog you are reading right now, in the other hand take Sitebuilder (some of you may have...
- Author: Karl Krist
Well, yesterday we ran some security scans...with varied results. One result was that we found some more vulnerabilities- the new scanner is thorough! But unfortunately, we also sent out some email from the Portal, due to the scanner being pretty darn aggressive.
My goal for next week is to run the scan against a few 'private' sites: http://nursing-home.info and http://simplestuff.info/mpg . The goal is to run stress tests, and try to crash the sites. I would like to compare the ANR servers/connection against what is commercially available. I think we will be in pretty good shape.
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
Well folks it's 4:00pm on a Friday afternoon and the office is eerily silent. Come to find out there is only three of us left from Communications Services in the Office. Dave is at some trainings, Karl is out on vacation, Alex is being artistic somewhere, and the 3 of us from the IT group are slaving away at our jobs. Or are we??? We could be playing games or goofing around. But why would we stay here and do that? This is ludicrous to think about. As for me I've been working away at a new grant system for the Center for Produce Safety who cant wait to give away millions of dollars to willing researchers (don't quote me on the millions of dollars... I'm just a programmer, and don't know all the gory details). Anyways Blaine and I simply...
- Author: Dave Krause
Tomorrow, the ANR Web Action Team will attend a unit retreat for staff of Communication Services. The theme of the retreat is "green." Not green as in great big piles of money. Green as in taking care of our environment.
We decided to conduct some case studies on how converting to web-based systems impacts the environment. Bryon and Karl came up with solid data for their studies. I pulled some numbers out of a bag for mine.
We then created a flyer with our case studies. Realizing that this was a slightly absurd maneuver, bringing unnecessary handouts to a gathering meant to celebrate being Green, Karl and Alex whipped up an activity sheet for the back of the flyer. This gives the...