I first came across modules while learning visual basic 6 a few years ago and the same concept applies in the newer visual studios versions as well (2003, 2005, 2008). The explanation and example of what a module is below (by Madboy of VBForums) is perhaps the easiest to understand.
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WordPress 2.3.1 Released
The wordpress team are really a bunch of smart and hardworking people. No longer than 2 days afeter they releaed the release candiidate 1 for worpress 2.3.1, they have now made an official release for a stable release of WordPress 2.3.1
Apparently, there was a major security issue with XSS with WordPress 2.3.
An XSS problem that can be exploited if your php setup has register_globals enabled. For this reason, upgrading to 2.3.1 is advised.
An Error Occurred While Processing This Directive
If you are using Apache/PHP/MySQL, this is an error message which you can often see and can occur for a couple of reason.
1. The error is generated by the Apache server. The SSI module in the Apache is activated and you have into your page something that resemble to a directive for the SSI. In this situation the Apache will try to interpret that part of your page but fails with the reported error message.
Read more at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/ssi.html#config
2. In my personal experience, you are trying to send an email using your own scripting language (like php mail function), and there is a default timeout set in php.ini. Usually, when you have a huge amount of emails to send (for example, sending emails to all forum members), you may get this message since the timeout has been reached and no more emails will be sent. It may also be due to the fact that your webhost has set a limit on how many emails you are able to send in an hour.
In most cases, you should seek help from your webhost as they know more about what to do. Let them know what you were trying to do when you got this error message. I’ve had luck with my webhost and they were able to increase my initially 50 emails per hour to 500 emails per hour.
A Little Bit Of CSS Conditional Comments
Came across Apple Support website source code and found the following CSS conditional comments in it.
The code section might mislead some people to believe that the CSS code was supposed to be used for IE8 (nope, IE8 isn’t available yet). What the code really says is that the CSS will only apply for IE which have version number lt (means Lower Then). In essence, it’s covering all major IE version up till version 7 (or 7.xx if there will be any)
* Conditional comments are only tailored for Internet Explorer on Windows and are supported from Explorer 5 onwards.
WordPress 2.3.1 Release Canditate 1
It was almost a month ago since WordPress 2.3 was released and now they are going forward with introducing their latest release candidate for 1 WordPress 2.3.1. This blog has been running on wordpress 2.3 from start and so far it has proved to be stable and I’m pretty happy with no complaints here. But yet, according to the wordpres team, they managed to fix over twenty bugs.
Some of the notable fixes are:
– Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
– A login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than their WordPress Address is fixed
– Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
– Link importer fixes
Installing Microsot Loopback Adapter Before Installing Oracle or SQL Server
If you’re going to use Oracle Database or SQL Server in a local environment or in virtual machines, make sure you install Microsfot Loopback Adapter first before you even try to install Oracle and SQL Server. Typically, the computer on which you want to install Oracle Database is connected to the network. While doing an installation, both Oracle and SQL Server will check what the current IP of the current computer is, and use this IP in several places in its installation. While this itself isn’t a problem, it might still cause *some* trouble after installation if:
1. You had DHCP dynamically assign new IP for your computer
2. You want to run database server locally in a non-networked computer but was connected to the network while you were installing Oracle or SQL Server.
What you need is the Microsoft Loopback adapter. The Microsoft Loopback adapter is a tool that can be used for:
1. Virtual network environment where network access is not available
2. Assigning a fake constant IP to be used by Oracle or SQL Server installation
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Programming Games for Nintendo Wii A New Challenge
There’s no doubt that Nintendo Wii has gained the number one spot in the market of next generation video console gaming. In just nine months, the Nintendo Wii has turned the video game industry upside-down. Sales of the console, whose players use their bodies as much as their fingers and thumbs, are far above even the most optimistic projections — the Wii has sold 9.3 million units worldwide, and is expected to hit 22.3 million units by next March, almost twice the sales (11.6 million) that rival Xbox 360, from Microsoft, will have generated in two years. [Read more…]
Concatenate Operators in Different Programming Languages
In programming languages, concatenate operators are used to add/append/bring two strings together. For example, in vb.net, you can assign two strings as such:
Dim helloStr as string = “Hello”
Dim worldStr as string = “World”
To bring them together, you have to use a concatenate operator. As in vb.net, you will use “&”
Dim HWStr = helloStr & worldStr
VB.NET = &
C#.NET = +
C = +
PHP = .
Domain Central Registries Raising Domain Prices?
I’ve received the following email from my domain registrar dynadot notifying me about a domain price increase
The central registries for COM, NET, ORG, INFO, and BIZ are raising prices this month. Because our margins are so low, we are forced to raise prices as well.
Starting midnight Oct 15 2007 EST, the price of COM, NET, ORG, INFO, and BIZ domains is going from $7.99 to $8.99. To save money, we recommend you renew your domains at the current price before Oct 15.
We work hard to keep prices low. This is our first price increase since we went into business in 2002.
Best Regards,
Dynadot Staff
I’m a bit sceptical about whether the central registries had really raise the prices on October 2007. Why do I think so?
1. No one likes a price rise right?
2. There wasn’t a link to any offical newspage/sources quoting this is true
One way or another, I have no problem with their domain registration service as they usually get a new domain registered within a day, and I’ve several domains registered through them.
Do you know of any other quality domain name registrars where you can register domain names for a cheaper price?
How to Generate Incoming Links Graph from Technorati
Technorati is one of the biggest blog search engine online and it’s always good to have some traffic coming from Technorati. It shows that people are searching and visited your site for what you’ve written. Technorati now can generate a graph that shows how many incoming links they have sent to your site. [Read more…]