Month: July 2009

Beginning Eclipse CVS – Basics 2: Create a new project from scratch

Posted on July 31, 2009November 19, 2013 by ellen

<= Back to previous section “Getting Started”

Eclipse Terminology-“Perspective”

The word “Perspective” is used to denote a window panel in Eclipse with a specific purpose. There are Eclipse perspectives for different functions, like the Resources perspective for viewing workspace assets or resources, the Team Synchronization perspective for viewing CVS synchronization information, and the CVS perspective for viewing CVS Repositories, to name a few.

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Error: “Partition size not a multiple of 4k” on formatting a new drive

Posted on July 30, 2009 by ellen

New Iomega drives ship with NTFS filesystems, formatted for MSDOS. They must be reformatted to work with Mac OS X. However when attempting to format these drives you may get this error: “Partition size not

Beginning Eclipse CVS – Basics 1: Getting Started

Posted on July 28, 2009 by ellen

Eclipse is an open-source software development platform or IDE that has CVS (version control) functions built-in. Although Eclipse was originally built for Java development, it is very useful for working in other languages as well because of it’s open plugin-based architecture. It is often used as the foundation for new applications because it is so easily extended. This series will focus on the basics of using Eclipse for for version control, for web designers or beginning developers.

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Keyboard stops working but only in Finder

Posted on July 26, 2009 by ellen

A new problem that’s been plaguing my Mac these days is that the keyboard sometimes stops working, but only in the Finder. In all the other applications, it remains functional. I use a Wacom tablet,

Drupal: Use Taxonomy Access Control Lite to protect content areas for each course

Posted on July 26, 2009 by ellen

Drupal is often used in education these days, and a common requirement for course sites is to create protected areas for each course. You could simply have a separate Drupal site for each course, but sometimes that is not an option, or not efficient, particularly if you want to have some common areas, and other areas which are restricted by course.

There are many approaches you could take to do this using various Drupal modules, but one relatively simple method is to use the Taxonomy Access Control Lite module. This tutorial will help you get started with managing rights in Drupal course sites. In a later tutorial, I’ll cover forums, wikis and and blogs.

Downloaded dmg files and codec overrun errors on Mac

Posted on July 16, 2009 by ellen

I’ve been downloading disk image files (.dmg) containing Mac utilities and applications with no problem for years, but all of a sudden, a particular update .dmg always downloads in a corrupted form. I’ve been trying

ASP contact form for use on GoDaddy sites

Posted on July 15, 2009 by ellen

UPDATE

The form described below works, but if the user’s email address is from hotmail, yahoo or gmail, GoDaddy will still block submission of the form. So here is the solution:

Make the following changes.

You will no longer need “formproc.asp”. GoDaddy will not release the code for their working form but you can use theirs.

In contact.htm, replace everything within the FORM tags with the following HTML code. This sends the user’s data to GoDaddy’s ASP form processor, _gdForm/webformmailer.asp

<form action="_gdForm/webformmailer.asp" method="post" id="form">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value=&quot;Submission" />
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value=&quot;thankyou.htm" />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contact form">
<tr>
<th><label for="name">*  Full Name: </label></th>
<td><input type="text" name="name" id="name" size="25" maxlength="255" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><label for="email">*  Email Address: </label></th>
<td><input type="text" name="email" id="email" size="25" maxlength="255" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><label for="subject">Subject: </label></th>
<td><input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" size="38" maxlength="75" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><label for="message">Message: </label></th>
<td><textarea cols="30" rows="6" name="message" id="message"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" id="button"><input type="submit" value="Send Email" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Next, create a “thankyou.htm” page, which can contain any message you want. This is going to be the page they get redirected to after the form has been processed.

GoDaddy made some changes to their smtp email server settings such that old ASP mail forms no longer work.

iPhone won’t sync to iTunes: disconnects during sync.

Posted on July 5, 2009 by ellen

A few days ago, my iTunes started giving me messages like “iTunes could not sync contacts to the iPhone “My iPhone” because the iPhone disconnected.” It wasn’t syncing anything to the iPhone anymore.

After reading this forum thread I tried resetting the sync history in the iSync application preferences. This did not help and instead caused iSync reminder messages to come up every few minutes.

I also tried syncing the iPhone with all the “info” selections unchecked, and then finally replacing all info on the iPhone by checking “Replace with information from this computer” in the Info tab in iTunes. This last change seemed to work, but I realized later that something else had probably helped fix it:

I’d had a USB hard drive plugged into the same USB hub as my iPhone for the last few days, and when nothing else was working, I finally shut it down and unplugged it. So there was more power for the iPhone coming from the hub. It is a power issue.