Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

Open Blue Dragon has come a long way in a short period of time. They now offer a super fast way to get ColdFusion up and running on pretty much any machine for developement. On top of that it comes with a nice GUI. So how easy is it? Just download the package, unzip it, [...]

A while back I discussed how to use the new sqlsrv extension for php to retrieve multiple result sets at a time from stored proceedures. This was indeed helpful when you need to retrieve related data and avoid multiple calls to stored proceedures. The down side is this was using a rather expensive (but good) [...]

Everyone needs to test emails for web applications, but it turns your inbox into a mess. Not to mention constantly refreshing your web mail and clicking Send/Receive. You struggle to find the broken html, and viewing your text and html alternate versions just takes too much time. This is where Email Dissector comes in to [...]

Recently I had an annoying little bug. Of course against the golden rule of php I was developing with SQL Server and using php’s mssql functions. All was working well except there were a few records which had special characters within the returned result which php complained about: Some character(s) could not be converted into [...]

I was curious to see just how many people are still using IE6. To find out this answer I simply explored my statistics for my website. I’m 99% sure these stats are a little biased since it’s a tech related website. And also I was told 90% of all statistics are made up on the [...]