David Wang writes about troubleshooting 400.x “Access Denied” errors in IIS. The first step is to pull the substatus code out of the logs, which will give you more information on what’s going wrong and narrow down the list of causes.
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Automated FTP Uploads/Downloads
ISINC has a writeup on how to pass a batch file of commands to Window’s command line FTP client. You can then create a Scheduled Task to automate them.
Troubleshooting htaccess
If you’re troubleshooting an htaccess file and aren’t seeing any changes, no matter what you put in the file, make sure that you have permissions to execute the directives you’re using. Check Apache’s conf file to see if AllowOverride None is set for your site or directory. If it is, add the directives that you […]
Making Coding Mistakes Obvious
Joel Spolsky wrote an interesting article on ways to make coding mistakes obvious, like using semantic prefixes on variable names. If you have unfiltered data from the user, you can make the variable something like $usFoo so that you always remember that the data is unsafe, and won’t output it unfiltered (therefore preventing malicious code injection).
URL Parameters for Google Maps
Mapki has a detailed list of URL parameters for Google Maps. Setting daddr is useful when you want to create a link for a user to get directions. You can also control the zoom level, type of map (normal, satellite, terrain, etc), overlay information and lots of other things.
CMSMS Skeleton Module
Skeleton is a CMS Made Simple module you can use as the base for writing a new module. It has all the basic code in place already.
Blogging as Narcissism
WordPress’s creator, Matt Mullenweg, expresses my sentiments on blogging exactly: “I used to think constantly about building an audience for my blog but now my attitude is that if I’m not blogging for myself it’s not worth it. I don’t force myself to post once a day, I just do it when it feels natural. Sometimes people […]
Free Icon Sets
These are some of the better free icon sets I’ve seen:
How to Build a Template in CMS Made Simple While Maintaining Sanity
I’m not a big fan of CMS Made Simple, but I end up doing a lot of sites in it by request. It’s taken me awhile, but I think I’ve found a way to structure templates that doesn’t make me want to club baby seals out of frustration. First, what I don’t like about it. […]
Domain Name Expiration and Renewal
Mike Davidson has written a good article detailing the sleazy underworld of domain name expiration and renewal.
Photoshop Button Styles
Copy the .asl file to the Photoshop’s \Presets\Styles directory.
Comparing E-mail Address Validating Regular Expressions
I wanted to find a regular expression to validate e-mail addresses, but when I searched I found dozens of slightly different versions of the same expression. Almost all of them had people leaving comments about how it failed to validate or invalidate some rare but completely valid/invalid address syntax. But dispite all the criticism, I […]