thoughts from an /engineer(ing manager)?/g
The new design for a website I’m working on calls for the ability to style bullets and the following list-item text with different colors, which isn’t an easy task for your plain-Jane CSS unless you use images for your bullets. This is not desirable because each section of the site has a different theme color, […]
But your cookies are turned on, you’ve cleared them along with the rest of your cache, and the problem exists in every browser!
A typical scenario is when you’ve copied your website from it’s test URL to production, or maybe you’re even just syncing down your prod data to your dev environment, as I do every once in a while to make sure I’m writing code against realistic data sets. After restoring the copied site files and importing your MySQL database dumb into your dev db, you innocently try to navigate to your /wp-admin page and log in. And you can’t log in because of some weird errors like “Cookies are blocked” on your system … frustrating.
Today is the last day to vote for proposals for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival (though if history precedes itself, it could be extended), and I’ve spent a good amount of time promoting what I think should be a killer topic for attendees. “Deploying WordPress: From Zero to Ninja” will cover business-oriented subjects like developing in […]
This issue has been floating around for a while, but I only ran up against it a couple of weeks ago. The short of it is that if you have Internet Explorer users complaining that they are unable to download usable zip files from your WordPress or otherwise LAMP website, this may be the fix […]
Try uninstalling Web Deploy 2.0. I’ve had IIS and Apache running smoothly for months on a new machine, and suddenly after installing SQL Server 2008 R2 and some Silverlight (yuck) tools to maintain an existing app, Apache reported that port 80 was already taken by “Microsoft HTTPAPI/2.0”. I think it snuck in, along with an unwanted […]