As a Web-Programmer, your biggest obstacle is cross-browser support. Making sure that everything looks the same across different browsers is tricky, especially with Internet Explorer. For some reason, IE seems to be the source of all problems. Whether its expanding-select inputs or JavaScript action calls, IE just can’t keep up with web standards. My theory: In the beginning, IE dominated the browser market because Internet Explorer came bundled with Windows. This made Microsoft lazy and now (web designers) are taking the consequences. If you haven’t already, visit www.gefirefox.com to Get FireFox. FireFox is faster, easier to use, and comes with addon-support like no other browser. I’m glad that over 80% of my visitors use Firefox compared to around 40% of all users. Support the transition away from Internet Explorer and switch today. For further reference, my first priority is making sure that RogerHub works… more →

I added a RSS feed to RogerHub. If you don’t know what it is, you should watch this: There’s a link on the sidebar and also one that’s embedded in this HTML page. So, subscribe :D -Roger EDIT: Fixed time stamp on posts.

So, after about two months, someone else figured out that Confiker had infected our school computers. Sadly, it wasn’t Walnut... In their post about Confiker, they mentioned some security packages from Microsoft and AVG. Yes, these are free and will work to protect your computer, but that’s not what most people are looking for. If you look at any FRY’s or Best Buy commercial, you’ll see that Norton and Kaspersky dominates most of the commercial market with their ties to major manufacturing companies. If you buy a pre-built computer, chances are it’ll have a 60 day trial of some sort of security suite. It’s great that OEM’s are trying to protect you from viruses, but hard-to-uninstall trial programs do more harm than good. IMO, ESET Smart Security 4 is one of the latest and greatest security suites available. When I look for computer… more →

Today, I saw this random guy go up to a girl and pop one of the balloons that was tied to her backpack. How sad In memory of the lost balloon, here’s an awesome red-orange one. I also switched out my wireless mouse today. It kept freezing for some reason, so I’m using a wired one now. Even though my wired mouse is optical and my wireless is laser, they feel exactly the same. In a mouse, I’m only looking for looks and design. Any modern mouse probably has more accuracy than you can feel. Mechanical ball mice are an exception, but they aren’t exactly modern. Macintosh mice look awesome. I’d get one if it had a right-click button. Alright -Roger

I added some new songs to the Moosic thing on the side. I hope you like em. I don’t like how Nickelback named their song "If Today was Your Last Day". It should be "If Today were Your Last Day". -Roger Speaking of naziis, Happy Armistice day. Wait, that was WWI wasn’t it? Nevermind..

When you right click something, whether it be a game, a Word Document, your new harddrive, or your boring-looking desktop, a menu pops out. This fact has been hard-wired into the brains of all the world’s Windows-slaves. Located inside the fancy menu that pops up, are myriads of choices, collectively called Context Menus. As a rule of thumb, every program that weighs more than a hundred megabytes must carry its own Context Menu. (Not really) These shortcuts are handy for getting things done faster, but often times, they can pile up and transform a simple right-click-menu into a junkyard of unwanted options. Not only is a clutter of context menus visually distracting, but performance can suffer greatly as well. So, what’s the point of telling you all this? Well there’s a solution, obviously. There’s a great freeware called ShellExView. ShellExView will generate a list… more →

I added a music player to the sidebar. It’s just a cutdown version of Youtube’s video player. If you have any songs that you think should go there, leave a comment. -Roger EDIT: Edited song list. Added playlist options. Added song-repeating. More edits: Alphabetized song list. Added a link to this thread. Added some full IE support for the Mooosic player More and more edits: Switched from YouTube Player to JWPlayer.. still based off of YouTube though More Edits: -Mooosic HD Impelented.

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) has always been notorious for bundling ads and unwanted programs with their instant messaging program, AIM. Because AIM is so widely used and accepted today, most people just ignore the ads, but I find it very annoying to have all of AIM’s bloatware installed on my computer. Cuban-Aftermath Software has released a program (AIM Ad Hack) to remove ads and bloatware from AIM. Instead of acting as an AIM add-on, AIM Ad Hack gets rid of ads and bloatware when you initially install AIM on your computer. AIM Ad Hack Homepage AIM Ad Hack Downloads -Roger My computer’s power supply has been down lately. Once I get it fixed, I will be adding a "Latest Comments" section to the sidebar on the right. EDITT:: I got my new PSU and I put in the "Recent Comments" section. Orion, stop leaving retarded comments.

I’ve replaced the header image with some winter-related ones. Tell me what you think . There’s one for daytime and one for nighttime. They change at 7:00AM and 5:00PM PST respectively. If you haven’t noticed already, I also put in comments. Click the "X Comments" thing at the bottom of each post to go to the comment page. -Roger