Kaweb Blog
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22nd September, 2008 — Written by Inky
Windows-based email accounts rejecting emails
As you may know, we recently had an issue with Windows-based email accounts (Hotmail, MSN, and Live) which were immediately rejecting emails sent from our mail servers.
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18th September, 2008 — Written by Inky
Gene6 FTP Server will not restart after installing licence
This was on a Windows Server 2008 machine.
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Used the trial - great, like it, and after trying to get my head around Windows Server 2008 IIS 7 and it’s reworked FTP service, Gene6 FTP Server was a breeze.
But hey, nearly fell at the first - the service would not start up after installing the licence.
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17th September, 2008 — Written by neil.paterson
FileZilla will not load after force quit
FileZilla for the Mac is a gem of a program for those needing a free “traditional” FTP client (alternatives being the sleek Cyberduck and the Firefox add-on FireFTP).
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Recently, however, I had a problem. I created a new site with a default local directory that had over a thousand subdirectories. Upon connecting, the program began pinwheeling, [...] -
23rd July, 2008 — Written by Jon
MSSQL Server 2005 and CodeIgniter
During development work on one of our larger projects, we uncovered some rather alarming problems when using php_mssql.dll in conjunction with SQL Server 2005 Express. Just by perusing some of the comments over at the PHP manual, you can see that we weren’t alone.
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Refreshing the page would cause the mssql_connect function to fail. A further [...] -
11th July, 2008 — Written by jason.taylor
Here at Kaweb, we have a variety of servers - both Windows and Linux based. If it wasn’t for the takeover of River Internet, we would have probably have stuck with Linux based servers for all our hosting. That said, we do think that having some Windows based servers has meant more flexibility in the [...]
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11th July, 2008 — Written by Kaweb
Sites still in Classic ASP, why?
Classic ASP is not to be confused with ASP used in the .NET framework, the two are very different, I’m talking about Classic ASP here. Classic ASP, was first distributed with IIS (Microsoft’s Internet Information Services) back in 1996, two further releases followed in 1997 and 2000. It was Microsoft’s first server-side script that was [...]
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2nd July, 2008 — Written by Jon
Five Mac applications web development companies shouldn’t live without
Quicksilver
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The motto behind Blacktree’s Quicksilver application is “act without doing”. Whilst the technology to move the mouse pointer with out minds and write application code via telekinesis is still science fiction, Quicksilver brings this concept closer to reality. Quicksilver is a productivity tool. It allows me to find what I want, and [...] -
1st July, 2008 — Written by Inky
As someone who loves good looking, user friendly sites, why oh why do people still have the Skip Intro button on their site?
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If it’s there, what’s it saying? “Click here if you’re bored, while we throw a few logos at you from a file that has been so badly actionscripted that it’s eating your bandwidth?”.
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1st July, 2008 — Written by Inky
What is Flash?
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Flash is a programme that creates a file (called an swf file) containing graphics and text that can provide far more movement, interactivity and sound than a standard HTML page.
In order for a Flash (swf) file to be shown within a browser it must have the correct plug-in installed on the users computer. [...] -
30th June, 2008 — Written by Inky
HTML Validator (based on Tidy and OpenSP) for Firefox / Mozilla
This plug-in (we all use Firefox 3.0 on Macs here, except for the token PCs we have to have of course) has helped our company set a benchmark for our coding practices.
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At a glance (the icon for this plug-in sits in the status bar of the browser), I can see if the source is up [...]
