Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Web Test Tools
This site lists some of the great web testing tools available.
My favourite is Microsoft's web application stress tool, and Badboy.
Internet Explorer weirdness: How do I adjust my browser settings to avoid the following message: "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?"

The Fix is: Tools > Internet Options > Security Tab > Custom Level Button > Display Mixed Content = Enable.

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Change the IE message "Script is taking a long time to run"

Monday, November 24, 2003

java.coldfusion.Factory
Explains the java.cf.Factory class.

Friday, November 21, 2003

Monday, November 17, 2003

CFX tags in CF for J2EE

You must restart the server if you tinker with dropping CFX tags into the C:\WebSphere\AppServer\installedApps\cfusion.ear\cfusion.war\WEB-INF\classes
directory. Even renaming a CFX and changing it back appears to require a restart of the server.
Yahoo! Instant Messenging Web Service
Here is a web service to send an IM message. No client needed.

Friday, November 14, 2003

This article explains what to do if you get ORA-00313: open failed for members of log group 1 of thread 1.

Fix it with alter database clear logfile group 1

Thursday, November 13, 2003

IBM HTTP Server - no graphics.
If you find that you don't get graphics when you have apache up and running, and the apache error log has lots of "file not founds", check the admin console and set
- the server name, and the document root directory name.
This interesting article on use of Indian software firms makes me thing it would be a good idea to list all the Indian software companies.
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Windows XP Administrator Account
In Windows XP, the username "Administrator" does not show up in the list of accounts that can be used to log in. This can be baffling if you are looking for that account. You can't rename an account to Administrator (because there is one already) nor can you create the Administrator account. Trying to do so gives the error "An account named 'Administrator' already exists"

The solution is to go to My Computer, right click, and choose Manage. Then look at Local Users and Groups, and you can see and modify the Administrator account.

Wednesday, November 05, 2003

Getting Rid of the Web Toolbar in Microsoft Word
Disable the web toolbar in word.

Monday, November 03, 2003

262090 - Synchronizing Offline Folders Does Not Synchronize Subfolders
Here is how to synchronise offline files in Windows 2000, including subfolders. For some reason, sub-folders are not set up to be synchronised. So if you choose to synchronise the folder "MyProject" you would never know (by default) that subfolders had been added.
The only weird thing about setting up subfolder synchronisation is that the files are synchronised, but you don't see the subfolders - you have to look at the "location" field to see which folder each file is in; the list is flat.