I was working recently on an import script that would allow the end user upload an excel file, read it and import the data. Everything worked great on my own computer but when I ran the project on our Windows Server 2003 the project would fail when attempting to open...
By default you can import a sql file up to 2mb in size. Most of the time you will have a larger filesize due to all the content your website will be storing. There are 2 ways you can overcome this limitation. Either use the mysql command line (it really...
At present if you install Wordpress as part of the Web Platform Installer it does not install PHPMyAdmin for you. Luckily this install is very easy to do. Head over to http://www.phpmyadmin.net and download the latest installer to your server. Once downloaded unzip the contents of the...
I recently had to install and setup a few Wordpress blogs onto Windows Server 2008. No biggy I thought. I'll just install Wordpress using the Web Platform Installer and away I go. Unfortunately it's never that easy! Below are the steps I took, the pitfalls I...
I've been very busy over the last few weeks working on some interesting MVC 3 projects but one of the things I was meaning to get around to was redoing my own RichardReddy.ie website. I had let the domain just sit there for about 12months but thankfully...
We recently had an issue of a page not loading of us once we integrated it with Facebook. This was a simple html page with nothing special on it so I was a bit confused that it would not load in Facebook for me. We were hosting the webpage on...
I've used GoDaddy.com for a number of years but recently noticed that their pricing was not as good as some of the competition. I also had my domains "protected" by DomainsByProxy.com which meant that I was locked into paying an extra $8.99 per...
Since I've been running Firebug 1.5.x I've noticed these weird error messages from a javascript file called nslivemarkservice.js. I did a bit of digging around and it looks like this is a leak is happening for some other people as well. The solution...
<shamelessPlug>I've been meaning to setup my own domain name for a while now. During December last year Blacknight.com were offering .ie domain names for only €2.99 so I couldn't resist and bought richardreddy.ie. The site design is using BCProducties'...