by Andrew Johnstone
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19 Dec 2005Everyone has their own way of doing things, whether its through one short cut or another, anyway heres some quick tips. If you have any submit them below, i’m sure I we all still have plenty to learn. Minimise Outlook to Systray… Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Preferences] “MinToTray”=dword:00000001 MAP Network drives, including Samba from […]
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17 Dec 2005I was browsing through google for any new information on large scale PHP deployments, and to my surprise I got a message telling me my machine had been infected! Considering I am very careful what I run on my machine, and haven’t had a virus on my computer in over two or more years I […]
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28 Nov 2005I have come across a few Ajax applications or implentations of Ajax that has impressed me due to their simplicity and clean designs, what Ajax implementations have impressed you lately? tracker.jot.com meebo.com sidebyside.ning.com openrico.org Tibco.com writeboard.com reader.google.com fluxiom.com orbeon.com backbase.com kiko.com webui30.componentart.com
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8 Nov 2005I was playing around trying to bind Multiple Websites in IIS5.1 on Windows XP, however after trying to find information on why trying to start up both services resulted in the following error “The request is not supported”, despite being bound to different IP addresses. I finally came across Kristofer Gäfvert site, which states this […]
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5 Nov 2005i18n & Flash system.useCodepage = true; Unicode or the traditional code page of the operating system running the Player to interpret external text files. The default value of system.useCodepage is false . Text that you include or load as an external file (using the #include command, the loadVariables or getURL actions, or the LoadVars or […]
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24 Oct 2005After few weeks, into launch of a global application, I received word that a couple of employees have been unable to gain access to their internal networks in Europe, and are outside the realm of the global corporate intranet. A system is also in place to allow members to gain access to the corporate intranet, […]
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17 Oct 2005Whilst developing with Apache, and IIS over a number of years, I have always found it frustrating to have to type and use a seperate port for the different web servers as you cannot bind to an IP Address with a single port, such as port 80. If you have tried to add multiple IPs, […]
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17 Oct 2005When adding an application mapping for aspnet_isapi.dll, I noticed when invoking an webservice IIS would throw a 404. This is due to a flag being set to 5, which is the default. Either by editing the MetaBases XML in IIS6 or modifying the MetaBase in IIS5 with MetaEdit. You can alleviate this by setting the […]
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17 Oct 2005A colleague recently asked me, how he could Change the Drive Letter of a Mounted Device, when he removed a Device. I’m not sure of a reason to do this, however for future reference, i’ll leave a note here… HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\DosDevices\C: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\DosDevices\D: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\DosDevices\E: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\DosDevices\F: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\DosDevices\G: Simply rename the Value Name of each Key in the registry […]
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17 Oct 2005Lately, I have been having a few problems with a very strange quirk, and have not been able to find the source of the problem as of yet. Currently I am authenticating over Netilla and also through Swivel implementation . All of this works correctly, however when NT Auth is enabled IE either hangs or […]
I have been a developer for roughly 10 years and have worked with an extensive range of technologies. Whilst working for relatively small companies, I have worked with all aspects of the development life cycle, which has given me a broad and in-depth experience.