IE 9 Developer Tools – Inspecting elements might need an F5 key press
This has happened to me enough times now that I would think of publishing the issue and its resolution in a blog post. And the issue relates to inspecting elements on a web-page using Internat Explorer 9's Developer Tools.Every now and then when I need to debug a Html...
Sql Server – The log for database ‘CRC1’ is not available. Check the event log for related error messages.
This week 2-3 days back, I got a really strange Sql Server error when browsing to one of my ASP.NET applications in the brower on my development server. As soon as I opened the app, the following error greeted me: M8ZWJBN5J8RV The log for database 'CRC1' is...
Javascript – Some quick javascript utility methods for XSS filtering
I often find myself needing to "eval" some content in javascript, where the content happens to be the name of a callback method (sometimes from another iframe on the same web page, e.g. parent.Portal.onWallRendered). You see I create a lot of frameworks that can be...
ExtJs – An ExtJs Ticker Component supporting adding items dynamically
Tickers used to be an essential part of any website during the earlier days of web, but are no longer considered that much useful today, right? Well I atleast thought so until a few days back, when I received a feature request for a scrolling ticker in a corporate...
Drupal 7 – Handling file uploads and moving files to the public file system
This was the most time consuming aspect for the recent port of my Document module for Drupal 7.You would be knowing that File system API underwent a complete revamp in Drupal 7 (see this and this link, a very good introduction of the changes and new concepts is...
SharpSvn – Connecting and fetching logs from Remote repositories
In continuation to my pevious blog post on defining configuration path to connect to remote repos using SharpSvn, I present quick sample code for connecting to and fetching logs from a remote svn repo requiring authentication.The topic as such should not need much...
SharpSvn – SharpSvn.SvnFormatException: Can’t determine the user’s config path
Till the beginning of this month, I was a regular SVN user using SVN as my Version Control System for many projects. But then, somewhere in the second week of this month, I have turned a SVN developer (not writing code for SVN itself, but providing solutions off...
Drupal 7 – Creating arbitrary ANDed/ORed database queries using the DBTNG abstraction layer
While working on the 7.x port for my Document module for Drupal day before yesterday, I had a pretty anxious moment. As you would know, the new DBTNG database abstraction layer in Drupal 7 fundamentally changes the way your module code interacts with the db. Now...
ASP.NET – A complete translation framework through Powershell and Google Translate
In this blog post, I present a complete framework for automatic localization in ASP.NET, ability to customize what is produced by this framework and a completely functional ASP.NET app demonstrating the features and process.In February this year, I published my...
Ext.Net – Invoking DirectMethods across .aspx pages
Yesterday night, I had a very interesting scenario. One of our apps has a normal ASP.NET page that is used exclusively for rendering Crystal Reports to the browser. The page provides a comprehensive Ajax framework for rendering Crystal Reports and we normally host...
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