Increasing VM Hard Drive Partition Size
I had an old Windows 7 VM that I upgraded to Windows 10 some time ago. Recently I needed to use it and ran out of space on the VM’s drive. It’s simple enough to use Parallels’ tools to increase the volume size, but in some circumstances this doesn’t actually work. Instead it tacks a […]
Enabling GZIP Compression on IIS 7/8.5 for use with Umbraco 7
Part of website optimization includes compressing website contents where possible. Here are some steps to get GZIP compression up and running on IIS for Umbraco.
Gravity Forms Filter Example
RocketGenius’s Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress is arguably one of the best form builder plugins around. Support is great, licensing is simple, and the tool itself is exemplary. It’s GUI form builder is second to none, and even allows management of contact dropdowns, so notifications can be sent dynamically to the right person based on user choice […]
Modern.ie site helps with virtualized browser testing
I’ve been using VMs for browser testing since the ’90s when Connectix still owned Virtual PC. Recently, Chris Morris introduced me to Microsoft’s own Modern.ie project. It’s an effort to help developers test against IE’s rendering issues, and a big part of that comes by way of provided pre-built VMs for common host platforms. The […]
Heartbleed OpenSSL Issue Description and Remediation
Great article over at StackExchange.com on the recently announced Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL. The bug allows any client who can connect to your SSL server to retrieve about 64kB of memory from the server at a time. The client doesn’t need to be authenticated in any way. By repeating the attack, the client can dump different parts […]
Coda 2 Hangs on Launch with Large File Open
So you made the mistake of opening a giant text file (probably SQL) in Coda 2. The program has hung up and you have the friendly spinning Beach Ball of Unresponsiveness, and it won’t go away. So, eventually you decide to kill the program and start over. Aha, but Coda 2 is helpful and opens […]
Some great ideas on web development workflow
Check out Paul Irish’s talk at the HTML5 Dev Conference from November 2012. Maybe there’s a little more Yeoman in our futures?
Joomla 2.5.x Versions Module (mod_version) Not Showing Up in Administrator Modules List
Have run into a couple of times recently and finally found the solution. The problem: The Joomla version isn’t being displayed in the admin footer while logged into the backend. The module also isn’t showing up in the admin’s list of admin modules. The issue: In one or more Joomla 2.5.x updates, the SQL to […]
Using MAMP with SQL Workbench
After various partial successes getting MAMP and SQL Workbench to work in peace and harmony, I found this HOWTO from Chance Garcia at phpprotip.com. Someone might also find this helpful from Frankie Inguanez.
Joomla Changes from 1.5 to 1.6, 1.7, and 2.5: $mainframe and jos_components
Was looking to convert one of my Joomla 1.5 components into a Joomla 2.5 component and ran into a couple of show-stopping changes. 1) The jos_components table is gone. Just gone. This is the table that among many other varied purposes used to hold the admin component’s menu hierarchy. It’s now been rolled into jos_menu, […]
