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Posted By : Dan Wilson
December 12, 2006 9:49 PM
Ok, so the site is pretty much wireframed out. I was very tempted to make the wireframe look better. You know, the little details, formatting and other bits that make a site look nice. Big waste of time at this point, in my opinion. I was still tempted though.
Step 1. Wireframe the site flow
Posted By : Dan Wilson
November 27, 2006 9:02 PM
In my scant spare time, I am working on a side project. I get a few hours here and there to work on it and haven't been too pleased with my progress to date.
There is no customer for this project, really. I have no deadlines apart from the ones I set for myself. As a result, i've been a little disorganized about getting underweigh.
The Ever Lovely Java 500 NULL error
Posted By : Dan Wilson
October 10, 2006 8:24 PM
While refactoring today, I got a dreaded Java 500 NULL error. This is by far my least favorite error because ColdFusion gives ABSOLUTELY no helpful information at all as to where the error occurred.
I am not sure why this error happens outside of the coldfusion error handler, you know, the one with the nice pretty information. Apparently it happens during a part of the process where coldfusion has no control, because coldfusion is usually tops on giving proper information onError.
After staring blankly at my screen for a few minutes, I tracked it down to the following section of code:
Apache, Directory Aliases and Virtual Directories
Posted By : Dan Wilson
October 10, 2006 8:22 PM
I realized I misconfigured Apache the other day. Apache wasn't serving files from my virtual directory, rather from the root folder named the same. After looking at my Apache configuration, I noted I was missing a leading slash in my Alias directive. Sort of hard to spot, so I hope this helps someone else.
CFMX 6.1 versus CFMX 7: War of the Arrays
Posted By : Dan Wilson
October 1, 2006 4:16 PM
Arrays in 6.1 are passed differently than in CFMX 7. I know this to be true.
What does that mean?
There are at least two ways to pass the contents of a memory address. Let's look at each:
My Travels with Apache, Subversion and Windows XP Pro 64bit
Posted By : Dan Wilson
September 29, 2006 7:41 PM
A few days I completed an installation of Subversion on Windows XP Pro 64. Subversion usually a pretty easy set up. In this case I was setting up subversion on an XP Pro 64 bit OS and there was an annoying wrinkle to the process.
I didn't know much about 64 bit windows, just that it could supposedly run 32 bit applications with no problem. (You know backward compatibility and all that bollocks). At this point, I wasn't much worried about incompatibilities, seemed like a piece of cake.
I'm warning you Vongo
Posted By : Dan Wilson
September 22, 2006 9:21 PM
Vongo.
Ok. What is Vongo? More importantly, who do these Vongo people think they are? Check out http://www.ihatevongo.com/ the site to learn about and share stories about Vongo.
I bought a new HP laptop a few weeks ago. It is quite a nice laptop with some very well laid out features. The laptop model is HP dv5000 series. It has some fun features, like the integrated 6 in 1 card reader, which have come in real handy as well as It has a 15.4" widescreen display, DVD writer, an Intel Core Duo processor, Windows XP Pro and preloaded with 1.5 GB of Ram. It was exactly what I was looking for. Not to mention when was the last time you saw a laptop from the factory with 1.5GB of RAM? Seems like an odd number, doesn't it? I think that kept rolling around in my head (1.5 GB? 1.5GB? ) until I bought it just to keep the noise from rattling around my corpus collosum any further.
No Dans?
Posted By : Dan Wilson
September 17, 2006 12:05 PM
I personally have nothing against people named 'Dan'. I promise...
My name happens to be Dan and coupled with my last name 'Wilson', this makes for the second most common name in the english speaking world. The first, is John Smith.
I picked this name for my blog after the No Homers Simpsons episode so if your name happens to be 'dan' don't worry, if they let me in here, they'll allow you as well.
There might be others named Dan, but I am the only Dan Wilson in existance. The others are merely alter egos. You can see from Google I keep quite busy...
Some of my alter ego accomplishments:
And of course, I have my own Wikipedia page
It is quite exhausting keeping up with myself as you can see.
My Lucky Day
Posted By : Dan Wilson
September 16, 2006 1:13 PM
Wow, this is exciting.
2selected
3from a batch of
4fifty thousand international Emails. Your email address emerged
5alongside nine
6others
7as category two Winners
8in this year's Annual luckyday Lotto Draw.
9Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
105oo,ooo.oo(five hundred thousand euros) only.
Normally, I would RUSH to email these guys so I can make sure I get my half a million euros. In this case I have a feeling that Macintosh will pull their sponsorship once they notice the mispelling 'Mackintosh'.
Of course, the clowns probably mean Apple - makers of the Macintosh computer.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:
(Batch # UML010/C2) (Ref. # 428/77/UML)
We are pleased to announce you as one of the ten lucky winners in the luckyday Lotto draw held yesterday 15-09-2006.All ten winning Addresses were randomly selected from a batch of fifty thousand international Emails. Your email address emerged alongside nine others as category two Winners in this year's Annual luckyday Lotto Draw. Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of 5oo,ooo.oo(five hundred thousand euros) only.
Contact the under listed claim officer via email as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings.
Mr.willson hillary
Complete Solutions Ltd
Email- willsonhillary@netscape.net
NB: Your ref and batch number is the key to your winning.Please keep it safe and handy as you make conact to claim your prize
Winners are adviced also to keep this award confidential until prize are claimed to avert incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements. Once again on behalf of all our staff,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely, Paul Green Promotions Manager The Luckyday Lotto Company
The Luckyday Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers,Mackintosh and a Conglomeration of other international IT companies.
The Luckyday lotto Internet Draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of The Internet and computers worldwide.
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