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How To Create a Stored Procedure using C#, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 is amazing. It truly is an integrated development environment, because EVERYTHING is integrated. I just learnt about stored procedures today and how creating stored procedures is so easy in Visual Studio. Here’s the steps that you need. In Visual Studio, create a solution if you haven’t, and to that solution, add [...]
Continue reading...Edit .htaccess to increase PHP’s max file upload
8. April 2008
To increase the upload file size limit on your website, you need to edit PHP’s configuration settings. Unfortunately, not everyone has their own web server, so most of the time people are constrained by the limits of shared hosting. But you can still modify your base php.ini file by creating your own php.ini with the [...]
Continue reading...How To Edit .htaccess So That SSI Include Code Will Run
21. February 2008
If you have tried adding in SSI include codes into your HTML files, but find that it doesn’t work, the problem may be that you might not have enabled SSI yet. The easier way to do so is to edit your .htaccess file to have these lines of code: AddHandler server-parsed .html Options Indexes FollowSymLinks [...]
Continue reading...Best Free PHP Forum Script
9. February 2008
The best PHP forum software has got to be vBulletin, because it has unparalleled features and support. The only problem is it costs over a hundred dollars. So that may be a problem if you’re just starting out. It used to be that the single largest competitor to vBulletin was phpBB, but it’s no longer [...]
Continue reading...How to Learn and Use Regular Expressions (Regex)
1. February 2008
Whoever would have thought that something that looks like gibberish would actually have such powerful usages. Look at this example: \d\d[/]\d\d[/]\d\d[ ][-][ ] Would you believe that it’s actually an expression that matches anything of the format of “12/06/08″? Amazing. I’ve been putting off learning about regular expressions (regex) for the longest time because it [...]
Continue reading...How do I create and remove a symbolic link?
16. January 2008
I was fiddling around with symbolic links in my unix box and realised how cool they were. Basically symbolic links (or symlinks) create a virtual copy of the master file. This virtual copy has almost 100% of the master’s functionalities and characteristics (you’ll need to play around with the owner and file permissions sometimes though), [...]
Continue reading...How To Resolve 500 Internal Server Error
12. January 2008
The part about developing applications that I hate most is the troubleshooting part because it is the most tedious and the largest timesink. Unhelpful error messages and a lack of logs make it worse. If you develop applications then one of the first things you’d want to do is to have a proper logging system [...]
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24. July 2008
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