One major problem I've been having is on my 2nd PC - where each time I shut down/restart it always runs a CHKDSK! So annoying! I found this great article that resolves this issue using command prompt to modify registry settings on start up. Disable or Stop Auto CHKDSK During Windows Startup

Had a big problem the other week when one of our databases was throwing heaps of exception email errors on scheduled tasks. After debugging for a few hours I worked out that the transaction log was completely full! Check out this useful article; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175495.aspx A useful tool is running the following command; backup log with no_log It's also suggested you do a Maintenance Plan Wizard - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189036.aspx I'll post more in this… Continue reading

I've been looking into SVN to replace our existing source control. It's bloody fantastic here's a link to the SVN Book - http://svnbook.red-bean.com…

Join the fun! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fusebox5 Currently there's no lead developer, and no real on-going plans for future versions as the FuseNG Project was stopped. Although FB will live on! The community has hit back with heaps of responses it looks like there will only be patches applied to the 5.5 version. See what the latest is by joining the group…

Fusebox is a great web application framework, our company has been using this framework since version 3. Currently fb5 has the ability to use Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern or Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) which is fantastic for new developers. XML is used for configuration of the application settings and circuits/fuseactions. Circuits correspond to directories used in your application. Fuseactions are child elements of a circuit which executes some code. For more information visit… Continue reading

In response to the following post I found on the net... IE suddenly stops being able to connect to URL where plone server lives, even using localhost, IP and port#'s. (win32 2.0.5 stable, on XP sp2 with all the latest everythings, running a LAN cable connection) Netscape and Firefox see the server just fine. The connection fails (timeout) or returns an http 500 error. Google search on this turns up a LOT of… Continue reading

Today coding up a site I noticed a huge difference between styles in FF3 and FF2 - I did a bit of research and found out that in FF3 they've rewritten the box flow component - which basically means some flawed css in FF2 will look like shit! A list of all the changes can be found here:

Okay, I did a dud thing and moved my wordpress into a sub-folder and forgot to re-configure it. Totally messed up all the stylesheets and the login and everything. Anyway I found out how to fix it. So firstly, move all your wordpress files from your root level to a sub folder like 'wordpress' - move the index.php file as well! in /wordpress/wp-config.php add the following lines with your own site and this… Continue reading

I had this problem yesterday when trying to work on a project at home using XAMPP (Incase you don't know what XAMPP is, it's a portable web server... I'll write another entry about it soon) Anyway to my problem... so basically you start up XAMPP and load http://localhost/ and it takes foreeverr to load... eventually it will load. I googled around for solutions and eventually found out what the problem was: Most cases… Continue reading

Found a program that actually works! CleanMem It’s an exe that runs in 5 secs to free up memory it uses some windows API to clean up processes. It’s really good for people like me that have Eclipse, Outlook, VSS, SQLServer and Firefox all open... and I’m only using maybe Eclipse for the majority of the time the others are just open doing sfa When u install it, it automatically sets a… Continue reading