http://nmpconsulting.com/blog Solutions to your technology issues. Tue, 25 May 2010 15:18:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've become a convert to a new programmers' tool called JQuery --a library of user-friendly javascript functions that allow for some very advanced effects that overlay seamlessly over a standard HTML page.  However, I did encounter an issue when using the UI widgets --a set of effects such as a ... http://nmpconsulting.com/blog/2010/05/25/jquery-ui-widget-size/ With all of the news about the the privacy changes at Facebook, the Untangle team has create SaveFace to help you get your privacy set back to more restrictive settings, so that all your information is not available to everyone.  It will set your privacy settings so that only your ... http://nmpconsulting.com/blog/2010/05/18/get-your-facebook-privacy-back/ It was released today on several sites that PDF files, and their corresponding readers have a critical vulnerability that would allow an attacker to compromise a computer, even with many of the normal protections in place that block things such as Javascript. Foxit Reader (NMP Recommended) and Adobe Reader both have ... http://nmpconsulting.com/blog/2010/04/06/pdf-files-have-critical-security-vulnerability/ A problem with the Bitfender virus scanner mislabeled Windows system files as viruses and quarantined them.  Therefore, without these files being available during the boot process, the computers fail to boot.  This only seems to affect 64bit versions of Windows and they have made a patch available, which should be ... http://nmpconsulting.com/blog/2010/03/23/bitdefender-update-causes-a-boot-failure-for-some-windows-users/ When setting up a office/corporate network environment, users may complain that it is frustrating to have to change their password every so often, or have to come up with difficult passwords. Despise the user's arguments, although valid, remember the security risk that it poses. If you have simple ... http://nmpconsulting.com/blog/2010/02/20/corporate-password-policy/ This may seem like a no brainer, but it is often done wrong. Set your parameters once and once only.  In other words, if you have ANY value that will be used more than once in your program, set a variable to that value and use the variable in the body ... http://nmpconsulting.com/blog/2010/01/28/best-programming-practices-2-parameters/ Don't throw your old electronics in the trash. Many electronics contain substances that can be harmful to the environment, and they should be recycled and disposed of properly. In the Columbus area, your company can use a service with free pickup and recycling services such as Possitivity (http://www.possitivitygreen.com/), or ... http://nmpconsulting.com/blog/2010/01/13/go-green-with-computer-recycling/ When I first started out as a programmer, I didn't have much of a concept of best programming practices. If anything, I saw them as barriers in the way of doing what I really wanted to do. And although there are plenty of people on the web willing ... http://nmpconsulting.com/blog/2009/12/29/best-programming-practices-1-multiple-files/ I searched all over for this information, and never found it in a easy-to-use format: Here's the situation.  You have php access to a MySQL --or other SQL variant-- server.  You don't have phpMyAdmin, you don't have command line access.  You would like to export some of the data, but not ... http://nmpconsulting.com/blog/2009/11/03/php-mysql-dump-or-export/ There is a rash of news recently about an old virus, the Clampi virus. It is designed to run and do little until the user logs into an online banking site. It then captures the username and password of the person logging in and sends it off to the malware ... http://nmpconsulting.com/blog/2009/09/22/clampi/