Problem Recently, I was working on a website that needed to display a temporary home page, while an installation of WordPress was being worked on. The custom home page was being displayed as index.html. WordPress uses index.php, combined with mod_rewrite, to handle all requests coming into the site. The server I was using would show […]
22
Oct
WordPress Permalink Page is Blank
Problem This problems comes up with various versions of WordPress; in this case, it applied to version 3.2.1. Sometimes, after an installation of WordPress on certain servers, the Permalink Settings page, in the site administration, comes up blank. The menu displays, as well as the site name at the top of the page, but nothing […]
23
Sep
Microsoft Access “ID is not an index in this table”
Microsoft Access Problem Recently I got a call from a client that was having issues with their Microsoft Access database. They told me that every time they opened the application, it would tell them that there was an error/problem with the database and that it had to back itself up and attempt to repair itself. […]
17
Sep
Google Syntax Highlighter Languages/Aliases
Here’s a quick reference to the WordPress “Google Syntax Highlighter” plugin. I’ve included it here since I alway have to go looking for it. The reference page can be found here: http://code.google.com. Language [Aliases] C++ [cpp, c, c++] C# [c#, c-sharp, csharp] CSS [css] Delphi [delphi, pascal] Java [java] Java Script [js, jscript, javascript] PHP […]
13
Sep
WordPress 3.0 Admin Issues (CSS/Javascript)
Recently I moved a WordPress web site from one server to another. The “move-from” server was running an older version of php than the “move-to” server. After logging into the WordPress administration, I noticed that the css was all messed up. Part of the css was working (displaying some icons, colors, etc.), but the majority […]
08
Sep
ColdFusion CFGrid Modifies Date and Time
I ran into a strange error with ColdFusion and CFGrid recently. It seems that when using timestamps, loaded from a database, within the CFGrid, CFGrid will modify the time so that it displays based on the time zone of the computer that is running the application (e.g. if the time is saved as 08:00 on […]
07
Sep
WordPress Blank Media Upload Window on Mac
There appears to be an issue with WordPress and Macintosh when using the “Media Upload” tool. Most of the time it works just fine, but in some situations the media upload screen is blank; both in the media area and when trying to add images to posts. At first, I thought this might be an […]
01
Sep
Common OpenSSL Commands
These are some common commands that can be used with OpenSSL. Much of this information can be found in the related blog: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In addition, some good documentation can be found at madboa.com/geek/openssl/. Certificate Generation and Signing Generate a new private key and matching Certificate Signing Request (eg to send to a commercial […]
01
Sep
How to setup SSL on WAMP
Alright. I Just finished setting up a WAMP server (wampserver) on Windows 7 using virtual hosts and SSL. I’m going to try and outline the steps in this post. This tutorial should apply if wampserver has already been installed and virtual hosting has been enabled (The “LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so” has been uncommented in the http.conf […]