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30Jul/090

Internet Explorer – 500 internal server error, even on localhost

Posted by Joey

In response to the following post I found on the net…

IE suddenly stops being able to connect to URL where plone server lives, even using localhost, IP and port#’s. (win32 2.0.5 stable, on XP sp2 with all the latest everythings, running a LAN cable connection)

Netscape and Firefox see the server just fine. The connection fails (timeout) or returns an http 500 error… Continue reading

30Jul/090

FF3 and FF2 different

Posted by Joey

Today coding up a site I noticed a huge difference between styles in FF3 and FF2 – I did a bit of research and found out that in FF3 they’ve rewritten the box flow component – which basically means some flawed css in FF2 will look like shit!

A list of all the changes can be found here:

30Jul/090

Moving WordPress to subfolder

Posted by Joey

Okay, I did a dud thing and moved my wordpress into a sub-folder and forgot to re-configure it. Totally messed up all the stylesheets and the login and everything.

Anyway I found out how to fix it. So firstly, move all your wordpress files from your root level to a sub folder like ‘wordpress’ – move the index.php file as well!

in /wordpress/wp-config.php

add the following lines… Continue reading

26Jul/092

XAMPP running very slow on localhost…

Posted by Joey

I had this problem yesterday when trying to work on a project at home using XAMPP (Incase you don’t know what XAMPP is, it’s a portable web server… I’ll write another entry about it soon)

Anyway to my problem… so basically you start up XAMPP and load http://localhost/ and it takes foreeverr to load… eventually it will load.

I googled around for solutions and eventually found out what… Continue reading

23Jul/090

CleanMem

Posted by Joey

Found a program that actually works! CleanMem

It’s an exe that runs in 5 secs to free up memory it uses some windows API to clean up processes. It’s really good for people like me that have Eclipse, Outlook, VSS, SQLServer and Firefox all open… and I’m only using maybe Eclipse for the majority of the time the others are just open doing sfa

When u install it… Continue reading

16Jul/090

Coldfusion 9

Posted by Joey

Having a look at Coldfusion 9 and it looks sweet as!

I’m going to do some more testing before I want to try introduce it into the company… but I’m loving the ORM feature!

ALREADY found a great resource centre –

Can’t wait to see what other developers can come up with when using CF9

16Jul/090

Server.MapPath() error ‘ASP 0173 : 80004005′

Posted by Joey

I had a problem today with Server.MapPath() while trying to check for images using a relative path. I got the following error:

Server.MapPath() error ‘ASP 0173 : 80004005′

My code being;

Dim fs
Set fs = Server.CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
If fs.FileExists(Server.MapPath(“http://localhost/images/myimage.jpg”)) Then
‘do something
Else
‘do something else
End If

Basically I needed to pass virtual path in my app. So I had to… Continue reading