What have I been up to? It's been rather quiet on my blog recently, if you're wondering why (and don't chat to me on/off-line) I thought I would share with you what we've been working on recently. For the past month or so The Site Doctor has
The Controls collection cannot be modified because the control contains code blocks Server Error in '/' Application. The Controls collection cannot be modified because the control contains code blocks (i.e. <% ... %>).Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated
String.Format- Exception of type System.Web.HttpUnhandledException was thrown. TypeSystem.FormatExceptionMessageException of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown. StackTraceat System.Text.StringBuilder.FormatError() at System.Text.StringBuilder.AppendFormat(IFormatProvider provider, String format, Object[] args) at System.String.Format(IFormatProvider provider, String format, Object[] args) Error Line0 Just got that message (or at most "Exception of type
OS Commerce error: 1062 - Duplicate entry '' for key x What am I doing messing with OS Commerce I hear you cry? Well one of our SEO clients (Florame Organic Aromatherapy) uses a very hacked version of OS Commerce as it's engine and as dire as it is, if it ain't broke don't fix
'debug' is undefined with Microsoft AJAX release and TextChangedBehavior.js As with my previous post, we upgraded the AJAX framework on the weekend which broke a few things, but one control in particular that broke was our TextChangedTextBox which is based on Pete Kellner's timed postback control. Since updating we were receiving a "'debug' is
Identify IIS Sites and Log File locations for WWW and FTP When we got our own dedicated server we needed to start working out a fair number of processes and decide upon a structure that was replicable, scaleable and manageable on a large scale, although the solution we've ended up adopting may not be the best, it certainly works
Microsoft Expression Web and CSS -is it all it's cracked up to be? After a number of months of hearing how great Microsoft's latest web development environment is -Microsoft Expression Web- I thought I would install it in place of Dreamweaver on my new laptop. I was -until today- pretty impressed with some of it's features, how well it
Server management 101 -part 1: Website directory structures and Identifying folder sizes Since getting our own dedicated server a couple of years ago we’ve had a fairly step learning curve which a lot of the time has been a tad hit-and-miss (never at the detriment of our customers I might add). Luckily we’ve had the superb support of Rackspace behind
The use and abuse of AccessKeys I’ve been meaning to post about the use of AccessKeys on websites now for some time (I wrote the post but never completed the list at the end). Then, this morning I saw a post from Tony Crockford on the WAUK list along similar lines so thought it was
FREE BEER -and the chance to chat to like minded media types This has to be my laziest post yet, it's just a paste of the press release but I'm to excited at the thought of free beer to re-write it ;) -Hope to see you there, shout if you're going. Chinwag Joins Forces With Top Software