myisamchk Error 22 on Windows

If you want to repair tables in a MySQL database, the docs say that you can just run myisamchk –silent –force */*.MYI. That doesn’t work under all version of MySQL for Windows, though, so you may get an error saying, “Error: 22 when opening MyISAM-table ‘*.MYI’. ” If you do, you can run this command […]

MySQL Service Crashes After Drive Failure

If a hard drive fails while MySQL is trying to write to the disk, the database could get corrupted. If that happens then you might see the MySQL service crashing every time when the first request is made after it starts. The error log might display something like this: InnoDB: Database was not shut down […]

Associative Arrays in JavaScript

JavaScript doesn’t support true associative arrays, but because data types are defined as objects, the common syntax works. This is a bad practice, though. You should just create a new object.

Conflict Between Comodo Firewall and Cisco VPN Client

There’s a conflict between Comodo Firewall and the built-in firewall in Cisco’s VPN client which can cause blue screens. You’ll see a DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error caused by inspect.sys or vsdatant.sys. One way to work around it is to install the VPN client without the built-in firewall: msiexec.exe /i vpnclient_setup.msi DONTINSTALLFIREWALL=1 The other way is to remove vsdata.dll, vsinit.dll and vsdatant.sys […]

IE Pixelates Text During Javascript Animations

If you’re performing a JavaScript animation effect on an element (e.g., jQuery’s fadeIn/fadeOut), you may notice that the text briefly pixelates in IE. You can fix that by setting a background color on the element.

404 After Saving Custom Post Type

There’s an active bug related to custom post types and permalinks in WordPress 3.0.3. Here are the conditions that it exists under: Permalinks include %postname% A custom post type exists with an empty value for the slug key on the rewrite array A post/page/etc has been saved after the custom post type was installed You’ll […]

Sub-pixel letter-spacing in CSS

There’s a thread on the Sitepoint forums about the smallest amount of letter-spacing you can use. Most of the responses are useless, annoying and wrong, but #36 finally gives a good answer. Most browsers only support integer pixel values for letter-spacing. This is a problem because, when it comes to letter-spacing, there’s a big difference between […]

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myisamchk Error 22 on Windows

MySQL Service Crashes After Drive Failure

Associative Arrays in JavaScript

Conflict Between Comodo Firewall and Cisco VPN Client

IE Pixelates Text During Javascript Animations

404 After Saving Custom Post Type

Sub-pixel letter-spacing in CSS