webdevThanks to some people on the DNN Forums, I discovered that the Windows login error “Login Failed. Please remember that passwords are case sensitive” can also mean “you typed your Windows password correctly, but it’s shorter than the DNN default minimum password length of 7″. The situation was confusing, because some people could log in [...]
I’ve been wanting to change some things about how our DotNetNuke Intranet site’s login page works, so here’s my record of what I did. I’m mainly writing this so that I’ll be able to reproduce it when I need to. The default login page is shown at left. I don’t like how the buttons are [...]
Here’s a great video from Jonathan Stark, showing how you can turn a web app into a native iPhone app with the free tool PhoneGap. When combined with jQTouch, the jQuery plugin for mobile web development, you have a complete system for building native apps for various mobile platforms, all from html, css, and javascript. [...]
The May issue of Communications of the ACM contained a very interesting article called “Why Cloud Computing Will Never Be Free”. It sometimes reads like an ad for the service that the author’s company offers, but it’s still an in-depth presentation of why the cloud computing price war has resulted in services that cut corners. [...]
If you’ve tried running WordPress on Bluehost, you may have run into this: you change your Permalink Settings, and the site no longer works. You get “403 Permission Denied”. The fix is pretty simple. Just edit the .htaccess file in the blog’s root directory and add the line Options +FollowSymlinks. I put it after <IfModule [...]
I was trying to use Akeeba Backup (formerly “JoomlaPack”) to move a Joomla site from a temporary location under my personal site to its own hosting account. The site packed up fine, but I got the error “Could not open logs/index.html for writing” when unpacking with kickstart.php. A little research revealed that you sometimes get [...]
