The feedback and press have started to come in for the She Says, She Says campaign created by Gencia Media which used ColdFuson and the framework ColdBox to power a mobile application to help awareness of teen sexual violence and rape. Read the full article on the BBC here

I tried, I really did! I didn't want to get pulled into the world of Twitter but I was just missing too much within the CF community. I mean who is really interested in reading my random crap, but I am now finding other peoples random crap strangely addictive!

Anyway, if you DO want to read 'my random crap' then you now can. My user name is glynjackson see you there!

Are you in the UK and still waiting for your OTA update from version 1.1 to 1.5?

If you are and don't want to wait, like me, then you can download the official update and manually install it yourself [LINK BROKEN]. I know I am impatient but if you're still reading this so are you.

Warning I recommend you have full battery if you do this!

• First download the file above to your desktop and rename the zip file to 'update' and place the file in the root of your phones Micro SD card. You can do this by mounthing your SD card while its attached to the computer.
• After the files are copied, unmount your phone and turn it off.
• Restart the phone by holding the Home+End keys down together.
• Wait and an icon screen will appear, nothing will happen, you now need to open your keypad and to view options hit Alt+L. This will display the log
• Now press Alt+S to begin the update.
• Rename it from signed-kila-ota-115247-prereq.TC4-RC19+RC28.zip to update.zip, and place it in the root of your Micro SD card.
• Once it finishes, just follow the onscreen instructions and press Home+Back to finish.

Enjoy cupcake

Cross browser compatibility has always been a pain for me, I spend hours at the end of every project tweaking and writing hacks to combat IE6's lack of support for current standards in HTML markup and CSS etc.

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Protx, the UK's leading payment gateway provider as you may well be aware was purchased by Sage last year. Well another change, as of the 21st of April Protx will be rebranded as 'Sage Pay'. Since the buyout I must comment that Sage Pay (Protx) support and their services have improved significantly.

As we are Sage Pay partners we will still be offering the same services as before and customers who use our services will not have to do a thing! Your API and SalesMaxx Cart will be updated for you. For anyone who is not with us or is a developer remember to change your logos. No news yet about the VSP Direct URL's, I assume they will still work and they will let us know if they change them also.

Hopefully this change means in the future we could have closer integration with Sage itself, although you can now use Sage Pay within Sage, the other way, in as always has been a little more tricky.

This week I found a gem and cannot put it down, I want to tell everyone! Justin Carter just made my use of the EXTJS library a lot clearer with his ColdExt tags. Everyone else seems to know about this already, but I didn't and just wanted to sing its praises.

I have a current application that uses EXT 1 and over the next 2 months I will be making major updates using EXT 2.0+ and this will really come in handy.

You cannot do everything with these tags and I have hit a few limitations but from what I can tell it's still a work in progress and if something is missing, you can use script directly within the tags so it does not really matter.

For me ColdExt looks like it will help me keep consistency with EXT 2.0 a little better than before, keep up the great work Justin Carter and if you read this, thanks for sharing!

SalesMaxx v4 screen shots using a mix of ColdExt

Long waiting and much overdue but it finally looks like the RC9 update for the G1 is being rolled out for the UK market. So far only a hand full of UK G1 users seem to of had the update and T-Mobile tech support have stated this is because of testing but everyone should have it over the next few weeks.

However Germany had the same RC9 EU update we are due to get for weeks now with no reported problems so I don't understand the logic behind it.

You may be looking forward to the improvement and bug fixes the update will bring such as finally being allowed to empty the trash! However don't get to excited we are still not equal with the RC33 USA counterpart, we will not be having the voice dial functions it has been taken out due to it not understanding the Queens English!

Having recently posted about PageRank I wanted to expand on it a little here, not the recent update but the confusion and myths often associated with PR. I had a few emails after the post, asking questions about PageRank most making over exaggerate claims and misleading assumptions on its impact in relation to their search engine rankings.

The truth is many Webmasters often obsess over the importance of PageRank in relation to their Page Rank. Note two words, "Page Rank" not PageRank (PR), two different things. PR is just one of the many factors that Google uses to determine a page's actual Page Rank on their search result page (SERP) for a given search query.

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Just wanted to wish the CF community Happy Christmas.