http://www.abilityweb.us/blog Small things that help me out Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:24:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I came across a great video that covers the basics of scrum in about eight minutes.  Check it out for yourself. Or use the direct link: Scrum in under 10 minutes http://www.abilityweb.us/blog/2009/09/cool-video-scrum-in-under-10-minutes/ Just today I came across a javascript hack that was sending information for website users to a third party location. The way I found this out - other than getting malware notices from Google, was to do a wireshark trace on the offending website. From there I saw ... http://www.abilityweb.us/blog/2009/08/javascript-hack-advquery/ I've noticed that when I run Elluminate on my new 64 bit Windows Vista machine I have problems with the explorer and other programs hanging. It really makes the session terrible. I thought it was a problem with Windows Vista, but later discovered it had to do with the 64 ... http://www.abilityweb.us/blog/2009/08/elluminate-and-64-bit-java-problems/ The GROW model of coaching helps a leader to get a team or group started down the right path on a new assignment: G: Goals - Agree on goals and objectives.  Set long-term goals and reach a consensus with the team.  Ensure that you have their buy-in. R: Reality - Assess the ... http://www.abilityweb.us/blog/2009/05/the-grow-model-in-coaching/ Google's current translation service has just gone a step further.  Not only can you translate text, or a web page, but now you can translate PDF files that are on the internet.  Simply enter in the URL for the PDF file and google will use it's PDF->HTML conversion tools to ... http://www.abilityweb.us/blog/2009/03/como-pdf-translation-via-google/ I often let files sit around on servers that contain logs and other automatically updated information. I want to clean these up every once in a while. Linux, of course, offers a great way to do this. find $directory_to_clean -mtime +$days_old -exec rm {} \; This bash command will look ... http://www.abilityweb.us/blog/2009/03/spring-cleaning-dejunking-old-files-on-linux/ Many of us have websites that look great on the computer monitor, yet wreak havoc on printers. CSS has a great way to make your content more printer friendly when it is needed. Take the following CSS code for example: <style type="text/css"> @media print { #menubar, #navbar, #searchbar {display: none;} #wrap, #content, #comments {width: ... http://www.abilityweb.us/blog/2009/03/nothing-like-paper-css-for-print/ I few months ago I published my solution for the various wireless problems I had with my laptop when I upgraded from Windows XP SP2 to SP3.  Back then I used a batch file to resolve the problems that I was consistently seeing when coming back out of standby or ... http://www.abilityweb.us/blog/2009/02/update-easier-solution-to-windows-xp-sp3-wireless-issues/ For those who follow news and information from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there is a new widget out there that allows you track news of the church on any of your blogs or other websites. First you go to the LDS News Widget Page and select the ... http://www.abilityweb.us/blog/2008/12/lds-church-news-widget/ On Saturday, I had received an email-advertisement for an online e-card generator hosted by jibjab.com.  It is a holiday ecard named "elf-yourself". You upload photos of you and family and friends. You then stick your uploaded faces onto their website and they transfer them to a bunch of dancing elves. ... http://www.abilityweb.us/blog/2008/11/watch-out-for-elf-yourself-ecards/