Most people know they should back up their data, but not everyone does. If you’re one of those people, just take this as a reminder that your hard drive will fail at some point, and you need to get all your stuff backed up right away! Go to the store and pick up an external ...
If you have your Waypoint site hosted with Twin Harbor and you need to increase the maximum file upload size, you just need to contact us. But if you are hosting your own, you will need to make a change to the web.config file. Waypoint uses the standard maximum upload size attributes of ASP.Net. In ...
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It’s possible. CSS only. No javascript. No funny-business. Most of the time I do this for a footer on a website. (See www.weissauctions.com, or our own site even, www.twinharbor.com). The footer should stick to the bottom of the page (or the parent element). If you resize the window and the content doesn’t fill the screen, ...
Today I copied a parallels image (Windows Server 2008) from my imac to my macbook. For some reason, I got the following error message when I tried to start it up: The virtual machine cannot be used because its files are corrupted. A bad file copy on the network? It turns out no. This message ...
The default setting in Parallels makes one annoyance that is easily fixed, once you can find how to set it! When clicking and dragging files in windows, you can press shift, ctrl or alt to modify the action. Copy, Move, make a shortcut; each are indicated in the icon when you press the key while ...
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Mac OSX caches DNS data to enhance performance, which is nice, however sometimes when you’re moving a website or server, you want to see the new DNS data. Here’s a quick little fix to clear the DNS cache in OSX. Open terminal and enter: (Max OSX 10.5 Leopord and up) dscacheutil -flushcache
As it turns out, configuring SMTP for asp.net applications to send simple email messages in Windows Server 2008 is not exactly straight forward. I think Microsoft is focussed on organizations with exchange servers ready to go, and as a result they have left us web hosting types out in the cold. How disappointing! But alas, ...
* Featured Lower Section, * News, .NET Programming, Windows Server ManagementWe often debug against w3wp.exe (the IIS worker process) when building web apps. Visual studio 2010 adds an annoying quirk though, a warning states: “Attaching to this process can potentially harm your computer. If the information below looks suspicious or your are unsure, do not attach to this process.” This pops up every time. How ...
* Featured Lower Section, * News, .NET ProgrammingI’ve been grappling with this one for a while now, and I finally came up with a solution, so I figured I better post this someplace because when it comes time for me to do it again, I need to remember how! Sometimes you want to get a list of records, and join them with ...
* Featured, * News, TSQL ProgrammingGoogle maps has made it incredibly easy to add an interactive map to your website. The video below shows how easy it can be. If you have a Waypoint site, we show how you can add it there, but it can be easily added to any HTML page.
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This week I had to send my iMac in for repair. Normally I program using Windows Server 2008 running...
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In my previous post I thought I had found a way to maintain some of the functionality that we...
I was a happy user of Spaces in OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard. You could assign certain applications to certain...