Archive for May, 2009

Visual Basic Cheat Sheets?

Friday, May 22nd, 2009
I found this great little website that displays cheat sheets for different languages. Recently I've been working on a VB project and it's come very handy. If your a developer like me know knows the basic concepts of programming all you need is the syntax of a different language then this is the reference guide you need: http://www.cheat-sheets.org/…
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Bloody PNGs not working in IE?

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
This has always been a common problem for developers but now days with IE7+ and other browsers following the trends of Mozilla are able to comply with transparencyissues. Here's an old post of mine from HTMLForums in regards to this problem. Posted by nas-t1 Hi Ok, I made design where I had to use transparent image. I decide to go with .png file instead of .gif image because it looks much better. As… Continue reading
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Replacement for CFExecute

Monday, May 4th, 2009
Recently while working on a project that requires shell scripting (running a program that returns a log) I had a problem with cfexecute not returning correct output information that I was expecting. Doing the same command in prompt I got the correct output, but cfexecute was giving me only the first line of my log. Continue reading
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XAMPP for Windows

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
I recently started using this program its fantastic! It's like Uniform Server yet slightly better. XAMPP is a type of WAMP (Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP) that runs straight off your computer. http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html Uniform Server on the other can run off a single usb - simply by running the app it mounts a virtual drive for your web server and off you go. When your done, simply stop and the drive is unmounted. On the other Continue reading
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\\computername is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource…Access is denied.

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
I recently got this problem after we moved houses. I googled all over the net to work out what the problem could be, but no solutions worked. I tried turning off the firewall, pinging the computers etc.. etc.. Eventually the problem was indeed the firewall, but which one? Windows Firewall was turned off - no probelms. But I also have AVG - this was the cause. When you turn off AVG's Continue reading
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