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Hey, thought I’d just post this one incase anybody else sees it and thinks it’s funny.
This is not really a very helpful post like most …
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In-depth guides, insights, and best practices for modern software engineering
Test IE versions on any machine!
Do you do web development and are unable to test your software in old shitty versions of Internet Explorer?
If so then you may want to read on a …
Error 500 php_value .htaccess
I noticed on some server setups I could not do the following inside a .htacess file:
<br> php_value upload_max_filesize 250M<br> php_value …
Windows Directory Tree Never Finishes Loading?
I am running Windows 7 64-bit and since yesterday whenever I open “My Computer”/“Windows Explorer” (-Windows+E) the initial …
Read Article →CSS background image data: base64?
What the heck is all that Gobbledygook in the CSS?
So you have noticed that bit of css that says something like this in the CSS source-code and you …
Read Article →WordPress remove Subscribe to my RSS feed after posts
If you are running WordPress and have noticed a line under all your posts that says:
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! …
Read Article →And then there was Google Instant!
If you have visited the Google.co.uk homepage (Yes, that’s Google UK) recently – since about the 8th of September 2010 then you would have …
Read Article →[Solved] PHP’s typeof – gettype()
Quite often you may need the ability to check what type of data type a variable is.
In most programming languages this is possible to do and is …
Read Article →When to use SSL?
There has always been quite a lot of heated discussion around the question of when to use SSL and when to avoid it while building websites.
I have …
Read Article →IE6 PngFix in Javascript
As a web developer you will know just how much we all love hate Internet Explorer 6 – one of the most dreaded browsers and browser versions that still …
Read Article →MSSQL Select Not Null
I mainly use MySQL these days, so get screwed over for a few minutes when I have to do something in MSSQL that is slightly different when it comes to …
Read Article →What is __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz ?
If you’ve ever looked at your browser cookies and wondered what all those __utm entries are, they come from Google Analytics. Each one tracks …
How to Close Bandmix Account
If you want to close a Bandmix account, then:
- Login to bandmix.co.uk
- Go to Options – http://www.bandmix.co.uk/account/options/
- Click Decline Service …
Google Redirect Virus Fix!
Now this is an annoying one.
You go to any of google’s sites including any site that has google-analytics.com javascript included in it’s …
Chromium Operating System
As many of you may know, Chromium is an opensource project that is basically an Operating System built on Linux and is just like working in …
Read Article →Super Easy Email Validation AS2
I needed a quick and easy way to check for the basics of an email address.
Does it contain “@” and “.” symbols.
This is by no …
Read Article →VLC Cache Rant
The first time this ran it took for freakin’ ages!
This should take less than a few minutes
What the hell is that supposed to mean? Less than …
Read Article →ODBC SQL Server Memory General Network Error
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error ‘80004005’
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]General network error. Check your …
XML cannot be the whole program
What the hell does that mean?
You can get this error thrown up in your good old trusty Firebug console.
It expects a script to be returned as an ajax …
Mocha Java Decompiler Download
Mocha is a Java Decompiler and is 100% FREE to use.
The readme.txt file in the Mocha distribution offers the free usage license:
The distribution …
EAI_NODATA
Error message: Connection attempt failed with “EAI_NODATA – No address associated with nodename”.
The above error occured while using …
Read Article →1180 Call to a possibly undefined method navigateToURL
1180 Call to a possibly undefined method navigateToURL
If you get the above error when trying to run your flash actionscript 3 file, you are obviously …
Read Article →Test Your Password Strength
I came across this site today and it’s quite an interesting one as it works out the approximate time it would take a desktop pc to crack the …
Read Article →How to use a Timer in Actionscript 3
It is really easy to create a Timer in Actionscript 3.
Instantiate the Timer Class and pass a time in millions of 1000 to it to work in seconds.
var …