Welcome to the US

Tonight my mother-in-law arrived from Shanghai.? Yeah, uber fun eh?? LOL!? She is visiting and?here to celebrate the arrival of our son.? Lucky me I know about a dozen words in Chinese and she knows about a dozen words in English.? Ha!? Kidding aside, she’s kewl.? Hey, here is a pic of her and Crystale taken tonight at the airport.? Just need to find her a majhong partner now….


Shanghai pics are up!

Yours truly finally got around to putting the pics on the web.? Y’all enjoy now, ‘hear??

peas…


Tables, borders, and empty cells

As many of you have noticed, if a TD has no data its borders are not displayed. One way to deal with this is to place a non-breaking space in the TD to force the border to appear. When building a report based on a query result, you may have to code like this

<cfif queryname.columnname IS “” >

&nbsp;

<cfelse>

#queryname.columnname#

</cfif>

While this does work wonderfully, this takes extra processing time. It also adds to the size of the resultant HTML page, in otherwords increasing bandwidth.

Enter CSS!! All you need is a CSS setting for your table, inline or external, like this

table {

border-collapse: collapse;
empty-cells: show;
}


empty-cells: show;
}

This will cause your TDs to display the border empty or not, plus it seperats your content from your display, a Good Thing. Further, your boss will be real impressed and send you cookies. ;) LOL!


howdy folks!

Ok, so I have been a lazy ass bastard, yeah I agree.? I really need to get in the habit of actually using this blog thing, eh?? Well, anyoo, update!!!!? We are about 7 weeks away from seeing our little boy come into this world.? Both of us soon to be parents are busy taking birhting classes and such.? Me, I’m abit nervous about it all, I mean think about it, a tiny little life!! WOW!? It’ll all be good I know.? Ok, off to work.? peas y’all!