Holiday Cheer on Forums

Seems like Google has made it popular to change the logo of a website for holidays.  My question is how many of y’all do the same, and more importantly do your members like it?  Over on my photography forum I switched out the default logo with a winter themed one for Christmas.  It’s scheduled to [...]

Why blocking right-clicks is a waste of time

There’s another forum I’m on where the discussion of blocking right-clicks comes up every few days it seems.  People put up their first website and are terrified when they find out how easy it is to right-click on an image and save it. The problem is that it’s trivial for anyone with a moderate amount [...]

IIS Error Message – “The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers”

A user of one of my web applications reported that he was getting the error “The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers” after logging in. After spending several hours Googling for answers I logged in and went to work with the intent of trying each of the few [...]

Coppermine 1.4.13 released

The Coppermine team has announced that version 1.4.13, a security release to fix a potential XSS vulnerability, has been released.

Content aware image resizing

The technology seems pretty slick, although I don’t really understand everything that’s said. This video explains a technique where an image is resized based on what’s in the image rather than simply cropping or scaling. [gv data="vIFCV2spKtg"][/gv]