Author Archives: Joseph

Adobe Software Hacked

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Joseph

Good grief, this is the first I’ve heard of this. (I have an Adobe account…) 38 million Adobe users’ accounts compromised. Credit card information also appears to have been stolen.

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Print-O-Matic Plugin Added

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Joseph

[Update (May 24/14): Print-O-Matic has ceased working. It has therefore been deactivated & deleted from this site.] Update (June 8/14): The Print-Friendly & PDF Settings plugin has been installed in Print-O-Matic’s place, and seems to be working well. Just added … Continue reading →

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Excel 2010 Tutorial

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Joseph

From GCF Learn Free. Looks pretty good.

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Google vs. Bing

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Joseph

Currently, Google’s search engine finds 110 links related to this site. Bing’s search engine can only find 10. Granted, sitemaps were submitted to Google a few months earlier than Bing last year, so it’s had a head-start. Nonetheless, Bing has … Continue reading →

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Strange Text Scrolling In AS 2 SWF File

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Joseph

An introduction to a translation in ancient Greek was online on this site for a few years before a peculiar error was discovered. Before scrolling, the text displays correctly: After scrolling, the top line of English text disappears: Upon entering the … Continue reading →

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Copyright Year For Flash Pages

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Joseph

Generating a copyright notice on a Flash page is a relatively straightforward matter. I. Print the Current Year A. ActionScript 2 Regardless of whether one is using AS 2 or AS 3, a textbox needs to be created somewhere on … Continue reading →

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Copyright Year Range For Static XHTML Pages

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Joseph

UPDATE (June 22/14): The conditional Server Side Includes in this code no longer appear to work on GoDaddy. Some permission may have been changed on their server… This simplified code does work for XHTML-Transitional, however: <div id=”copyright”>© Chou Seh-fu <script … Continue reading →

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Current Copyright Year For Static XHTML Pages

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Joseph

I. With Hard-Coding Originally, the current copyright year for the entry page on this site was hard-coded in XHTML. This worked fine, except it was always necessary to remember to change the current year every January 1st: <div id=”copyright”>© Chou … Continue reading →

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Add Outer Stroke To XHTML Text

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Joseph

The blog title on the entry page was looking a little bland, so it was punched up a bit with additional stroke around the XHTML text. Here’s what it originally looked like: And here’s what it looked like with additional … Continue reading →

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Embed A SWF Video In XHTML

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Joseph

I took a 640px X 480px video of snow falling in Calgary recently and embedded it into XHTML. Here’s how it was done: First, the .AVI file was imported into Flash. The height of this Flash file was set a … Continue reading →

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