Web technology and server tips
Apple’s ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ keynote is underway today. And in typical Apple fashion, they are starting with statistics. The big stat that caught my attention was the ‘Year over Year Growth’ chart showing PC at 4% and Mac at 23%. So I thought I would come up with a list of a few things Microsoft can do to improve PC growth.
Allow PC’s to run 360 games, this …
More+YouTube has been building an HTML 5 mobile version of their site which offers videos in native H.264 format, which if you have paid any recent attention to Apple are both technologies that will render Adobe Flash obsolete. Not a chance mister Jobs, but it is a cool and very clean technology, and very useful especially if you have an iPhone. Check out http://m.youtube.com on your smartphone. I have been testing …
More+We all know that iPhones are for people who just think they need one to be cool, am I right?* Does an iPhone scream “DROID!” at you everytime you get a text though? No, it doesn’t. Therefore a lot of people are making the correct change to the open source and lovable phone, the Motorolla Droid. How hard is it to set up your email though? It’s as easy as …
More+Ever searched around looking for the mime-type for the newer Microsoft Word .docx file type? Search no more. It comes in handy for web development when you have an uploader app in PHP or ASP and need to determine the file type. Tested in PHP and works perfect. Hope this saves someone some time searching.
.docx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
.doc (old school word)
application/msword
If you work with MS SQL server and have databases that handle lots of transactions then you no doubt have encountered the .ldf file growing to insane sizes if left unchecked. A large LDF file will result in the web application running extremely slow or most likely just timing out, not to mention affecting the performance of other databases setup on that same server. We used to manually detach the database rename the .ldf, once you …
More+You might wonder how a windows script host app like this could possibly be of use. Well it has many uses like checking a mail server queue and restarting a service that may have hung. Or a web development application that allows clients to upload files for print projects but no body ever goes out and cleans off the files. With a little modification to this you could pull off many …
More+If you do alot of web developmentyou may have come across a project that required reports or emails that need to run on a schedule. You could do it all with web code by tracking the intervals your routine should run but that has one major flaw, it requires a visitor to trigger the event. If no one visits the web site the routine gets skipped and so much for your schedule. If …
More+So in a earlier post I mentioned that I bought a Macintosh 7100 in college. Do you know all the Apple products you have owned or used in the past years? The other night I found this image of Apple Form Factor Evolution 1976 through 2007. Lets see how many I have owed and used over the years. How many have you had…
Heres mine going down the list.
1) I …
It’s not really a shocker that Microsoft doesn’t want you using your iphone to get MSN Messenger, they want to keep some exclusivity for their mobile OS. Unfortunately the Apple iPhone is leaps and bounds ahead of the mobile tech of the much larger Microsoft has been able to develop. I personally have owned and used every version to date of the windows mobile OS on a myriad of the latest …
More+I was having a hell of a time getting the spellchecker in WordPress 2.2.2 to work properly and could not find a solution online anywhere so I decided to post what worked for me. Two hours of searching online resulted in nothing so when all else fails you are left to your own devices. To preface this post I am using IIS6 and PHP5. Everytime you click the spell check icon you get …
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