Microsoft actively urges IE 6 users to upgrade,and I certainly agree! Continuing to support IE 6 in any modern web application can be a major headache. I have seen a number of display, JavaScript and other issues that will only occur on IE 6. My company currently tests our software on IE 6-8, Firefo... [More]

I know it's been said a million times but really it is incredibly annoying! I can overlook the emails. All those stupid ones with the dollar signs in place of s' in order to try to sneak "penis enlargement" through the spam filters. Yeah they're annoying but I have to say that most spam filters seem... [More]

I just added my first new item to this site for your enjoyment. I created a new widget to display random entries from the FMyLife.com website. This widget was incredibly easy to create. FMyLife has an API that simply presents the data as XML. Using the .Net Framework's System.Xml namespace I wa... [More]

Now that Qualtrax version 4.1 SP1 has been released we have begun development of the next release of Qualtrax. Version 4.2 will include Active Directory integration, a WYSIWYG workflow designer tool, and many enhancements to the testing and training features. This is of course subject to change with... [More]

Although I had a blog with blogger previously I had completely neglected it for 2 1/2 years. I recently purchased my own domain name and I have decided to put it to good use. First with this new blog and later for some more content although I'm not sure what just yet. All the posts from my old ... [More]

I have an excel spreadsheet with a custom vba function that will simply return the document property with the name given in the parameter. This function works wonderfully. I can enter it as the formula for a particular cell in the worksheet (such as =DocProperty("MyVariable")) and that cell will now... [More]

Disney recently released it's latest animated film "The Wild" on video and DVD. My wife and I decided to rent it last night and watch it with our one and a half year old daughter. Did Disney fire all of their talented writers? This was the worst Disney movie I have ever seen. It was so incredibly bo... [More]

Over the weekend my wife, daughter and I went to the annual CCS company picnic. On our way home we decided to stop by Brusters for some ice cream. We had never been to a Brusters before (and only knew about it by having driven by the week before) so we had no idea what to expect. I ordered a single ... [More]

The following restaurants have agreed to donate a portion of their sales for a certain night to Ian's campaign--so if you are in the area, let's get the crowds out! Hey--people have to eat anyway, right, so they may as well eat and contribute? Mark your calendars and foward to all your friends!Sept ... [More]

When Qualtrax inserts dates fields into Word documents the entire date and time is displayed, such as "Monday, July 17, 2006 2:59:44 PM". In some cases you may want to show the short date format instead, such as "7/17/06". Here are some simple instructions on how to format your Qualtrax dates in Wor... [More]