Date: 11/17/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: database, sql, web, linux

Second post today, I knew there was something else. I just wondered how does everyone go about managing there projects? I've been given the task of redoing my companies database delivery system (wow such an impressive title) basically converting all the Access databases we have into webbased sql databases and front ends, but this project is going to be huge (with a team of around 3 of us, for a 3000user base, yes, this isn't going to work) and I thought my current system of a folder and dropping scripts into just wont cut it, esp for revision control so is it possible or does anyone use cvs or svn for revision control or something simular. I would like something easy but at the end of the day whatever works. I could use a linux box but it's all windows servers so something that can work on windows would be better, which is a shame.
Any ideas is greatly appreciated.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/368626.html

Date: 11/17/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, web, microsoft

Three more companies will provide lists of confirmed phishing Web sites for Microsoft's security tools.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5958832.html

Date: 11/18/05 (C Sharp)    Keywords: database, asp, sql, web

I am converting a web app from ASP to ASP.net and have stumbled on an annoying problem.

1. ASP code accepts user input and stores value in the database
SQL field type is nvarchar(200).
BUT the query does not use N'' to specify that the string is unicode.

2. Value stored in the database is '陳小春'

3. Value displayed on web page (utf8 encoding, no server side changes) is '陳小春'

4. Actual UTF data in the database is displayed on screen as ???
(database value: 人, display value: ?)

5. ASP.net application using the EXACT same queries results in point 4 being displayed correctly (as japanese) but the values that were displayed correctly in the ASP app are now exactly as they are in the database.

Please Help ... My only guess was that the ADO connection was converting the UTF in the database to Non-UTF for display in ASP and the ADO connection in .Net is preserving the Unicodeness of it.

But i did a simple test in ASP where i selected the data, stored it in a variable and then inserted back into the database (non using N'')
and well ... i got the exact same .... japanese was japanese the rest was garbage.


Anyone have any ideas???

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/csharp/41546.html

Date: 11/19/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Hello, new here... need some advise. I need a new web host and the only one I can afford is those for free. My current one only allows 15 MB of daily downloads. I only need about 10-20 MB of space for my current website but i need a place that allows more daily downloads, I would prefer no limit. Anyone got any suggestions?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1018575.html

Date: 11/18/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Bush administration protests Tunisia's crackdown on physical meetings and Web sites at a U.N. summit.
Photo: Annan defends U.N. summit

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5960120.html

Date: 11/18/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, google

Google is launching a new feature Friday that lets publishers of AdSense partner Web sites sign up advertisers on their own. Under the new Onsite Advertiser Sign-up, marketers can create site-targeted ads and submit cost-per-impression bids on the targeted site. Previously, advertisers had to go to Google's Web site to do that. With AdSense, Web [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-starts-competing-with-blogads/

Date: 11/19/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, html, java, web

hey guys,

I've been doing webdesign for a while, and have a pretty good knowledge of html. i am currently working on website for me and some friends of mine which will involve a photogallery with a lot of different subcatergories and seperate pages for each image, and it seems kind of pointless to go and create each seperate page for each picture, as well as keeping them under different catergories, photographers etc. i'd also like to have a very simple login and upload type thing so people can post pictures, define the catergory or subject, title, etc. maybe even something so that it automatically resizes the pictures to a set size. either way, this is beyond the realm of my web knowledge, and probably would involve php or something.

so, what i'm asking is, if anybody has a good knowledge of creating photo galleries with posting and sorting, etc (like a way paired down deviant art or something) i'd be willing to exchange some free web space and a subdomain (the website is polaroidbandits.com, so it'd be a totally hip domain to be hosted on haha) in exchange for helping me build this photogallery.

i'm pretty clueless when it comes to anything other than html and real basic javascript, so if you can help me out either leave me a comment or send me an email at tay@polaroidbandits.com

thanks!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1019118.html

Date: 11/21/05 (HTML Help)    Keywords: web

this has nothing to do with livejournal layouts, it has to do with website designing, but i didn't know where else to go to ask this question.

okay so:
i understand image maps.
i understand iframes.

but, what i DON'T understand is how to link the two together.


i am making a band's website.

the background is image mapped (news, shows, band info, media, contact). there is a space in the background for iframes to go.
how do i link each of those separately into the space where iframes is suppoed to go?
i know how to get iframes into the page, but not so that every time i press a new link, all that changes is what's in the space for iframes, and not the entire page.

what i want: one main page. iframes inside of it. each time a link is pressed, only what is inside the iframes box changes.
what i do NOT want: several pages that look the same but with different information inside the iframes box. (i.e. if you start off on "news" and click on "shows" it brings you to another page entirely instead of just having what's inside of the iframes box change)

(i didn't know how to write that coherently... i hope at least someone understood it).


please help?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/htmlhelp/2199816.html

Date: 11/21/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: database, web

I'm working on grabbing data from a database and putting it into a DataGridView. My program starts off with 1 DGV, and I want the program to then go to another page that has 3 DGVs on it, all referencing the "id" field from the previous form. Thing is I don't know how I can grab the id value from the DGV. I cant' find a .SelectedValue or .Value of the selected cell.. also this isnt' for a web form, so I don't think I can just do the hyperlink column with a query string on the end of it/passed value. Does anyone know of a way to grab the value of a selected cell? thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/aspdotnet/48644.html

Date: 11/21/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web

Hello all.

I was routing round in the loft the other day, and I found a box literally full of old 6502 processors and old 8k ram chips. I personally don't have much use for them anymore, but I know there are loads of people on the internet who restore old computers, like the oric etc, to whome a box of old processors is a godsend.

My question is, how would I go about selling them? Do I just post in every forum I can find, or is there a website that would be ideal for this? Also, I have no idea what the asking price would be. It probably isn't much.

Thankyou greatly

sam

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/819384.html

Date: 11/21/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: rss, browser, security, web

Has anyone tried out Flock yet? It is still quite beta, if not alpha, based on Mozilla Firefox, but incorporating some very nice little innovations indeed.
1. All of your Favourites/Bookmarks/Whatever you call them are stored online, by default on del.icio.us . There is even a little star button on the toolbar to bag and tag any page you are on quickly and easily.
2. You can use your Favourites Manager in the normal, everyday boring way. Or you can also use it as an RSS feed reader. Blow me down with a feather.
3. "Flock comes with the open source Clucene search engine built in. Each time you visit a web page, it indexes all the content on that page so you can easily retrace your steps later." Exactly what that means I don't quite know yet. Any techno-babble people want to help me out here?
4. Most frequently visited sites tracking from within favourites. Real, intelligent Favourite Favourites?
5. When you bookmark a page that has a feed, the browser automatically becomes a feed reader and updates every hour.
6. Flock has a built in blog editor that works with WordPress, Movable Type, Typepad, and Blogger. Unfortunately LJ support is expected "shortly".
7. The blog editor integration looks pretty good. You can highlight something on a webpage, right click and choose "Blog this". It will automagically open the editor, with the selection already inserted and formatted.
8. The Blog Editor comes with Flickr integration. Press a button and get a topbar with all your Flickr photos. Assuming you have Flickr of course.
9. An intriguing, very alpha feature, called "The Shelf". Basically if you want to blog about something cool, but you're too busy reading other stuff, you drag stuff onto the shelf so you can drag it into the editor later. It's 'Ron for the net.

Definitely not ready for prime time yet, but with the news from this (badly in need of a spell-checker) article that Firefox are going to be slower at innovating, whilst maintaining speedy responses to security threats and aiming for the most intuitive interface possible, COMBINED with the fact that this is built off of Firefox, and therefore should be able to tap into the wealth of extensions out there quite easily, it is well worth a look.

EDIT: Not quite alpha, not quite beta. That weird stage of in between. Public Beta is slated for December.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/337865.html

Date: 11/22/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, google

I reported previously that Google is about to unveil a new program that lets publishers of AdSense partner Web sites sign up advertisers on their own. It is already operational and it has opted you in (if you are AdSense publisher) by default. I have some concerns about this program. I don't like the fact that [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-silently-opts-in-publishers-to-online-advertiser-sign-up-program/

Date: 11/23/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web, hosting

now i know every 10th entry posted here is in regards to hosting, but i would like to request that we compile a complete list of free and paid webhosts for personal and business use to commit to the community memories. that way anyone visiting the community can get the help they need without posting repeated requests for hosting suggestions, and we can constantly update it with new listings as we come across them. =) would anyone else find this helpful, or is it just me?

to start;

i'm currently looking for an affordable host for my .com domain (based in canada if possible). right now i pay $50 USD/year for 5gb of monthly transfer and 100mb of space, and i'm finding myself in need of more. i'd like to stay under $70 USD if possible since my domain is little more than a place to store images and movie files.

so far i've been eyeballing the following plans:

canaca.com (BRONZE PLAN)
domain registration - $10/year
domain transfer - $10/year
domain renewal - $20/year
hosting - $3.95/month (provided you sign up for a 24-month plan)
disk space - 10gb
bandwidth traffic - 200gb

directnic.com (BRONZE PLAN)
domain registration/transfer/renewal - $15/year
hosting - $3.95/month
disk space - 800mb
monthly transfer - 100gb

any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1020539.html

Date: 11/23/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: asp, web, microsoft

I have a couple questions about Hotmail.

First, my mother uses Hotmail's web interface, and she often gets message delay notifications containing the text "Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed." From the messages that I've been able to find in her inbox, this has happened only when she's emailing AOL users. That leads me to assume that it's a problem on AOL's end (especially since my mother uses Hotmail's pay service), but if anyone has any input or solutions, I'd be appreciative.

Second, my mother, like I said, got a paid Hotmail account so that she could use Outlook Express to send and receive her Hotmail email. However, even though I've tried everything I can think of, I can't get OE to send mail via Hotmail's outgoing server. I get the error message "The server does not support the required HTTP methods (I'm using http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp and have checked multiple times to ensure that I have her account configured per Microsoft's instructions). Can anyone give me any suggestions? Would she do better just to have her Hotmail email forwarded to her Gmail account, which, presumably, would work just fine with OE?

Thank you very much, in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/533997.html

Date: 11/23/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web

Hello guys,

I was wondering if you could help me out here - soon I will be proving a service on my website for some friends so that they can have their own pop3 email addresses. But I want them to be able to access their email from a webmail PHP script - reason being I want it to use certain sessions with my website, and I can't be bothered to code my own webmail system :D

Does anyone know of a good, easy to install, customisable webmail system?

I've already tried a couple, and had no luck, I'm seriously looking for something quite simple, without all the frills (like address books, etc).

Cheers,

Xanni

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/370597.html

Date: 11/24/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: rss, css, web

Using Rudy Rucker's FeedBurner as an example ... I thought I had at least a basic understanding of what's what, but how do those background images get in there?

I have a workable version of his page on disk ... looks fine ... but it's still fetching the images from the Feedburner site and I can't see why.

see feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/rss2enclosuresfull.xsl and feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css

I /know/ I'm missing something simple ...

X-posted to web_design and webtech

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1021188.html

Date: 11/27/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: asp, web

I'm working on a calendaring web application for photo shoots. One thing I'd like to add is the ability for a photographer to put in the zip code where his/her shoot is going to be, and get the weather forecast (as available) for that day and zip code.

Anyone know of any SOAP web services (preferably digested for ASP.NET) for weather? I heard that MSNBC had one, but I can't seem to find it.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/825068.html

Date: 11/27/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

This isn't, strictly speaking, about web design. But I'm hoping someone here will know the answer to this.

A week ago on Friday I initiated transfer of a client's domain from EasySpace to 123-reg. I requested transfer in with 123-reg and then logged into the client's EasySpace account to initiate transfer out. As I'm sure everyone's aware, EasySpace charge an incredible £49 to transfer out, so I had to pay for this on the spot. The following day I get an email from TuCows telling me to go input the transfer key, which I do, and get the usual "transfer confirmed" message.

Four days later and the domain still hadn't transferred. As far as the client's EasySpace account goes, everything looked normal. The domain says it's pending transfer but, then - surprise! - suddenly the domain is a dead link and I can't log into the site by FTP. EasySpace say this is because the domain is in the final stages of transfer but - another surprise - 123-reg now say the transfer is cancelled because no-one responded to the admin email (the one containing the transfer key). I say I did. They say they have no record of it. Meanwhile the site has been down for four days and no-one seems to have control over the domain. My client by this time is furious. I told him that it would be an almost instantaneous process, because well - it always has been in the past - but now I feel like a prize idiot.

So on Friday the domain finally appears in my 123-reg management list. I thank the gods and go in to set up the web-forwarding to the new site. Check again an hour later. Nope, still not redirecting. Check again, three hours later. Still nothing. I ring them:

"The web-forwarding isn't working?"
"When did you set it up?"
"10am."
"It can take up to twenty-four hours..."
"I know that, but it never DOES!!! Can you check to see if everything's ok?"
"If you wait until the twenty-four hours is up..."
::sound of me slamming down phone::

The next day - oops - still not redirecting. I ring customer support and - surprise no.3 - they're shut all weekend!!! Meanwhile the client rings me at home on my mobile asking what the hell is going on, and all I can say is I'm trying sir, I'm really really trying.

And then today I check again and - lo - the domain is now working. And what explanation do I get?

Hi,
The domain name was missing a zonefile. I have now rebuilt this and the domain name will be working in 24 hours.

So can anyone tell me who I can blame for this??!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1022632.html

Date: 11/28/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, html, web

I just got done designing a small website for a client. Everything looks good on my PC platform using all major browsers. However, he uses a Mac and just sent me an email saying some of the images aren't loading and some of them are being cut-off on the right hand side. This is the page in question: http://www.michaelhargrave.com/gallery.html

I have two questions:
1. As a PC user, is there any way to see what a website will look like on a MAC platform, i.e. a virtual website or something?
2. If you're on MAC and can see the problem can you recommend how to fix it since I can't see for myself?

Thanks in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1022840.html

Date: 11/28/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

We just completed the first phase of re-designing the The Complete Book of Eye Care book website. We publish the famous eye care book by Dr. M.S. Agarwal and make it available for free to everyone in compliance with the authors wish. The site lists some of the opinions of famous people and publications about this [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/redesigned-the-complete-book-of-eye-care-book-website/