Archive for the ‘Web Dev’ Category

Well, you’re not going to believe this, but I fixed it. I took a look at wp-config, and found two things — first, the domain was listed without the www prefix (leftover from dev) so I added that. Then, found that my base was listed as ‘/’, so I changed that to ‘/blog’ and FTP’ed/overwrote [...]

Remove the bad IE icon from desktop, either delete or right click desktop -> Properties->Desktop->customize desktop-> uncheck Internet Explorer Go to http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/ie_fix.reg – Restore IE Desktop Shortcut Icon Functions Download that. Open registry, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} Delete that key {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} + all sub keys Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} Delete that key {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} + all sub keys [...]

Top 10 fonts of 2009

Posted: January 10, 2010 in Web Dev
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Champion Script Pro Based in Athens, Greece, the Parachute foundry joined MyFonts in April 2009 and immediately got the attention of our quality-conscious customers. Sophisticated, original text families such as Beau Sans andCentro became great sellers. The icing on the cake was Champion Script Pro, the year’s most successful formal script font. Based on the manuscripts of the [...]

I recently solved this problem simple as this if you try to search a URL on the address bar of your internet explorer and it comes up as this ‘the requested look up key was not found in any activation content, follow the simple instructions below to solve this problem 1. right-click on internet explorer [...]

Replace all instances of FINDTHIS with REPLACEWITHTHIS in columns COLUMN1 and COLUMN2 of table TABLE where those substrings are in fact found update TABLE set COLUMN1=REPLACE(COLUMN1,’FINDTHIS’,’REPLACEWITHTHIS’), COLUMN2=REPLACE(COLUMN2,’FINDTHIS’,’REPLACEWITHTHIS’) from TABLE where COLUMN1 like ‘%SUBSTRINGPIECE%’ or COLUMN2 like ‘%SUBSTRINGPIECE%’

Happy Birthday Firefox

Posted: November 12, 2009 in Web Dev
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November 9th 2009 is Firefox’s fifth birthday. Firefox and WordPress have grown up next to each other so we’ve always felt a brethren spirit with their team as we work toward the same goal, making the web a better place, from opposite ends of the spectrum. Just out of curiosity, I wondered how Firefox was doing [...]

Well, someone had to find one eventually…:-) IE8 Standards-Mode Only: .test { color /*\**/: blue\9 } All IE versions, including IE8 Standards Mode: .test { color: blue\9 } You should probably use conditional comments instead, but sometimes a good old-fashioned CSS hack can get you out of a bind (especially when you don’t want to [...]

I used DreamWeaver CS4 to install a flash swf animation into a asp page. I have html pages on the site the swf plays no problem. I received the following error. Active Server Pages error ‘ASP 0139′ Nested Object /index.asp, line 86 An object tag cannot be placed inside another object tag. Here’s CS4 code: <object id=”FlashID” [...]

I think your router’s Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) is too large for the Web sites or e-mail servers you’re trying to communicate with. The MTU is the largest size packet or frame, specified in octets (eight-bit bytes), that can be sent in a packet or frame-based network such as the Internet. The Internet4s Transmission Control [...]

Contact sheets let you easily preview and cataloug groups of images by displaying a series of thumbnails on a single page. You can automatically create and place thumbnails on a page using the Contact Sheet II command. This feature is very popular with photographers and has been widely used since CS2 Photoshop. Regrettably, it’s been [...]