PHP On IIS & My Epic Battle (Failed to write session data)
Always make sure that you modify the session.save_path to somewhere meaningful and ensure the directory has the correct file permissions.
Open Source Week 2009
I am so excited to say that I finally booked everything I need to attend the Toronto Open Source Week. In a couple of weeks time, I will be spending a couple of days in Toronto while attending the many conferences, workshops and presentations on open source software (GNU Linux, PHP, etc.) I am hoping…
I support Canadian Net Neutrality
I believe that internet service providers need to be treated as “dumb” utilities like hydro, water, and sewage are.
Difference between HTTP Methods (Get & Post)
It has been quite a while since I have used Yahoo! Answers. I often find many of the answers to questions are blatantly wrong or that the person answering doesn’t really provide a link to additional information. This blog post is designed to include additional information on the Get & Post methods of HTTP and…
Questions to Ask In An Interview
I’ve been involved in interviewing people, and like everyone I have also been interviewed. I believe that when you are interviewing for a company, it is a time for both parties to determine if you will fit into the corporate culture so everyone should ask questions. I strongly believe that if something really bothers you…
Books I’ve Read
Sometimes, when I have applied for full time employment in the past I have seen job ads or received responses from companies asking what books I’ve read. Nearly every time, I have heard this question I was so shocked because I didn’t ever keep track of what I had read or where I had gleamed…
Sending Emails from C#.NET
Emails are incredibly easy to send from .NET especially your typical plaintext email. We will be making use of the System.Net.Mail namespace along with an smtp server you should already have setup or you could use a free one like Gmail.
Read a Whole Textfile Into a String
At work, I’ve been working on an auto html emailer. I’ve been receiving files from our Latin American office that are completely in spanish and trying to sift through the HTML and recreate the email taking into account size and the fact that Outlook 2007 still doesn’t accept background images and most CSS. Anyway, one…
How do I check if Ubuntu is 32 bit?
1. Open up the terminal
2. Type uname -m
Open Web Tools Directory
Not too long ago, Mozilla launched an extreme pleasent and fairly easy to use Web Tools directory which includes many easy to use and sometimes hard to remember names of frameworks, debugging tools, and et cetera.Open Web Tools Directory
Thoughts on Linux
Almost a year later, and I don’t think I would ever consider going back to any of the Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.
How To Stop A .NET Form from Closing
How to stop a form from closing in the .NET Framework
Becoming a Super User In Ubuntu
In Ubuntu, by default, the root user’s password is locked. This means that we don’t know it and we can’t always sign in as root or unfortunately use the normal linux su command either.
Mouse Overs For ASP.NET
Have you ever wanted to have the ability for the colour of a row to change when your user moves the mouse over top of a particular row, and then change the colour back whenever the cursor is moved back off? Well, this process isn’t very difficult in fact using some knowledge of JavaScript &…
Creating a Simple RSS Feed
RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and is an XML specification published by the W3C. RSS became a standardized specification around June 2000. This is meant to be a very simple primer on developing an RSS feed. Please note that this is not meant to replace a detailed book or the specification created…
Programming Excel Using Visual Basic 6
Microsoft provides the ability to programmatically created spreadsheets using Excel. The process isn’t overly complex, but the twist is that the intelisense is almost nonexistent in Visual Studio 6.0.
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Welcome
Greetings Visitor! Wow, that sounded like a corny greeting from a science fiction movie. And, wow that totally wasn’t funny either! This blog will serve as an interesting location for computer programming tutorials and articles as I learn and discover many new things on my journey to provide excellent software on schedule and…