Windows Journal crashing on Windows 7
If Windows Journal starts crashing every time you try to open it, these instructions might just fix it (thanks to David Bradley):
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Captivate external links that don’t work on imported Powerpoint slides
The other day a Captivate author showed me a new problem: on one slide, resource links she had put into a slide imported from Powerpoint were not working.
Continue readingFlash Firebug: No SWF files with AS3 detected on this page. You could try reloading the page.
Flash Firebug is a great tool for debugging Actionscript 3 SWF files, similar to the way regular Firebug helps debug Javascript and CSS when using Firefox.
But the current version of Flash Firebug, 3.0.3, has a bug that causes it to display this error:
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No SWF files with AS3 detected on this page. You could try reloading the page.
Safari error: Web pages are not responding.
Since the last update of Safari, I’ve been seeing way too much of this error:
"Webpages are not responding. To visit the selected webpage, all webpages in other tabs and windows must be force reloaded. Do you want to visit this page?"
Once this error shows up, usually several windows will start reloading on their own. The error seems to happen only when I have a lot of tabs and windows open in Safari, but since I almost always do, it’s hard to pin that down as a contributing cause.
Continue readingPrevent float drop in IE
Internet Explorer’s propensity to drop floated elements adds time to site development, and sometimes causes a page to appear blank if the floated content drops below the window “fold”. Ignoring the problem and designing only for standards-adhering browsers is not always possible, particularly in enterprise environments where IE (and not always the latest version) is the only officially supported standard. Of course, other browsers are being used as well.
I’ve finally came across a fix that appears to work well cross-platform, thanks to Thierry Koblentz in the YUIblog.
Continue readingODBC Driver Error: [ODBC Driver Manager] Driver’s SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed
If you try to connect to an Oracle Database using the Test Connection button in the Data Sources (ODBC) Control Panel, and get the error [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver’s SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed, try the following suggestions:
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Movable Type comment error: “Text entered was wrong. Try again”
After I added some new commenting features to this blog, this error started to appear when comments were submitted:
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Comment Submission Error
Your comment submission failed for the following reasons:
Text entered was wrong. Try again."
OS X: Manually index a drive with Spotlight
By default, Spotlight indexes local drives. However it is possible to force it to index networked AFP (Apple File Protocol) volumes as well.
Open Terminal, and type
sudo bash
It will ask for your password.
Continue readingTips on getting PHP to work on Windows/IIS
Trying to set up php on a Windows server running IIS from scratch can be a challenge. I would recommend first trying out the Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer because it is so easy to use, but sometimes that doesn’t set things up correctly. In my experience it usually works, but occasionally the installation fails to create a working environment. In such cases it may be easier to do the installation from scratch by downloading and running the correct PHP installer for your system from php.net.
If you decide to install from scratch, the following tips may help you resolve problems you are likely to encounter along the way.
Continue readingHow to find Directory Utility in Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6)
I used to use Directory Utility occasionally, and was surprised not to be able to find it anymore in the Utilities folder in Snow Leopard. It turns out it’s been moved to the SystemLibraryCore Services folder, but the best way to access it is now through System Preferences.
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