Viewing by month: May 2008

FireFox in Search of Guinness World Record

Thats right. When FireFox 3 goes live sometime in June they are hoping to declare a "download day" and set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours. You can check out their FireFox Download Day Headquarters where you can pledge your allegence to the rebel forces, I mean FF.

I have to say, I've been using FF3 since beta 2 and I think it is a huge improvment over FF2 and for the first time a huge improvement over IE7. I have to admit I couldn't get on the FireFox bandwagon until this release came out. Now I can't wait for it to go live so the rest of these small bugs can go away and more plugin developers update to the new version campatability.

0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 7:35 AM - Categories: Development

Motorcycle Road Racing Update

This past weekend brough fantasic weather to the Summit Point Motorsports Park in West Virginia. The holiday weekend race was 4 days long with 2 days of track practice and 2 days of racing. Unfortunently for team EmpireGP we showed up a bit too late for the absolutly jammed packed weekend and ended up getting a less than ideal pit spot in the paddock. On the plus side though, our area was much more relaxed.

Testing on Saturday went well but resulted in some so-so lap times maxing out in the upper 1:21's. However the bike was performing well and I wasn't feeling the need to destroy the machine before the weekend really kicked off. With a sold out event I was entered into 5 races: the GTU ,GTO, Unlimted GP (trophy dash), Middeweight GP and middleweight Superbike.

more details and pictures after the jump

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0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 7:39 PM - Categories: Motorcycles | Racing | General News

My new family addition (5wk old Boxer)

This past weekend I picked up a 5 week old Boxer puppy from a rescue (Ella). Her mom had stopped feeding the puppies, but she was already doing very well on her own anyway. We already have an almost 2 year old Lhasapoo (Buster) who up until the afternnon of the day when this video was shot, was being extremly snobish and doing his best to ignoring the new pup.

I'm not normally a guy to post pictures of my pets, or even take video... But last night I captured a couple really funny scenes on my pocket camera and thought this one was worth posting. Whats amazing is that the MIC on the camera was actualy on. These two will now play for 15-20 minutes like this all out and not make a SINGLE sound.... This is a welcome change from her hound-esque howl she can get going at night...

 

0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 3:22 PM - Categories: General News | Friends / Family

Running Multiple Versions of Firefox

Having recently switched to using Firefox and having always complained about Microsoft's PIA move by making it so difficult to run multiple version of IE at one, I was suprised to find that FireFox has the same stupid issue. Fire fox uses the same default non segrated profile path for every version.

The Fix (same idea for win and mac I believe):

Run c:\{your Firefox path}\firefox -profilemanager -no-remote

Create a 2 new profiles, I called mine FireFox3Rc1 and Firefox2. Use alpha-numeric and stay away from spaces. Once you've created them go ahead and exit.

Now you must modify the shortcuts for firefox, respectfully.

c:\{FF2 Path}firefox.exe -P FireFox3 -no-remote
c:\{FF3 Path}firefox.exe -P FireFox3RC1 -no-remote

Technically there is no need to change profiles for both FF version. But I'm assuming I'll even have a 3rd version here of FF3 soon and I hate using default profile paths...

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1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 3:06 PM - Categories: Debugging | Development

Wow, sorry for the feed dump!

Due to server and software changes my blog paths were no longer the same and I stopped getting aggregated by Adobe Feed/MXNA. I ignored this aside from an email that didn't get me anywhere; until this afternoon. With the new feeds software the feeds list actualy worked and I found out what URL Adobe was looking for my feed at. A quick 301 error inside a cfif tag fixed my problems...

Unfortunetly the result was ALL of my posts showing up in Adobe feeds at the top all at once. For this I apologize, I had figuered it would go off my modified or posted date, not when it read it for the first time...

<cfif url.event EQ "showBlogRss">
    <cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved Permanently">
    <cfheader
          name="Location"
          value="http://www.EmpireGPServices.com/blog/feeds/rss.cfm"
    />
    <cfabort>
</cfif>

1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 4:27 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | Debugging | Development | General News

Sitemap awareness from Robots.txt

In writig a plugin for Mango Blog, I found out that the big leaguers for search engines have gotten together and decided that sitemap awareness from robots.txt was a good idea. This was news to me despite that this has been out there for more than a year now.

To add your sitemaps to your robots.txt simply add this line:
Sitemap: http://www.YourWebsite.com/sitemap.xml

In my case i used:
Sitemap: http://www.empiregpservices.com/blog/sitemap.xml

Further information:
http://www.sitemaps.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000437.html

0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 2:03 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | Mango Blog

Site Map Generator: Mango Blog Plugin

I've created yet another plugin for the ColdFusion Mango Blog package. Last night I was suppose to be doing one thing and my ADD kicked in and I did this for some reason.

This new Site Map Generator Plugin will create a sitemap.xml document in your blog's root directory. Sitemaps are supported by search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Ask.com and Moreover.com and a few more I'm sure at least.

More info after the jump or
Download the ZIP file or view my SVN repository

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13 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 1:37 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | Mango Blog | My Projects