Just a bit of a plug here for you to check out a site that I’ve been working on for a client. It’s called Collision Guard, and it’s a safe driving and auto discount website. I joined the team after the site had been live for a few months on a feverishly hacked together infrastructure [...]

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Quick post here since I see a lot of questions about this out there. If you’re trying to upload photos via Facebook’s Graph API and you’re getting an OAuthException with a message of “(#324) Requires upload file”, I can help you out. Something seems to have changed with facebook.php recently – if you’re going to [...]

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There are a number of things that can cause an Excel spreadsheet to slow down. Sometimes, the spreadsheet can become unusable, requiring up to a minute for saving or even the most basic of changes. Here’s a brief checklist of the most frequent causes of Excel slowdowns. (Have a spreadsheet slow-down that I haven’t described [...]

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jQuery whines incessantly Real helpful error. I’ve verified that $.widget() is a function and has been included. So, why am I getting this error? (In fact, now that I think of it, Javascript/jQuery has the most obtuse and misleading error messages of any language I have ever programmed in. However, it’s also one of the [...]

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Having trouble removing a symlink from your POSIX compliant (Linux/Unix/OSX/MyDogSamix) system?  A quick Google yields some interesting results, which may or may not be helpful. Most likely, you’ll find a bunch of condescending links highlighting the fact that you can just ‘rm <symlink>’ the symbolic link.  Silly newb. However, if this is a directory, you [...]

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For a while now, I’ve been using FlashDevelop and CS3 exclusively for all of my AS3 development.  However, as my project became more and more complex, CS3 crashes became more frequent.  A few days ago, in fact, CS3 was crashing on every single compilation.  Very strange. So, I looked into migrating my compilation to the [...]

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Hello Googlers – Are you getting the following mind-boggling error on your web app as well? Here it is in its expanded form within Firebug: ‘Security error” code: “1000′ ? Real helpful, prototype. Thanks. So, first of all, it will likely take you a very long time to realize that these errors stem from an [...]

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Installing WordPress on OS X Tiger and getting the ambiguous ”error establishing a database connection” error?  Fixing this problem was easy for me, once I knew what to do. The problem is with your php.ini file.  The default socket value is initially blank: mysql.default_socket = To get WordPress to work, you need to set a default [...]

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Just a bit of Google-fodder here. One of my Drupal-based sites started generating weird errors in IE recently. “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site, Operation aborted”. Whaaa? The error prevented the page from loading and made the page unusable. Lame. Don’t we love IE? Anyway, I thought I’d add my solution to the hive. [...]

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Screen scraping. It’s one of those techniques that can be loads of fun and also heaps of frustration. On a recent project, I was charged with scraping some pages from Yahoo! Shopping. I Hate Screen Scraping After coding up a quick skeleton, I was surprised to see that none of my initial tests were working [...]

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