ndARTS.CA Blog : Internet, computers and other IT stuff

A client of ours was seeing a bug but we were not able to catch it. It was happening on a link for us and my developers and i were unclear on why this was happening. What was happening was we were looking at a page that was available after login in the admin, for example members.php. On this page there was a link called “Username” and its called looked like…

<a href=”">Username</a>

If you would click on the link from Firefox, it would load the members.php page again. If you had clicked the link from Internet Explorer 7 it was loading the root folder which was “admin/” causing it to look like we were getting logged out. After seeing this we relized its happening because Firefox and Internet Explorer have their own rules on what empty link tags should be doing and that just makes our job as developers even harder.

Adobe and all the mobile companies should be pushing for flash to be more available on the phone devices. Flash right now has a penetration of 99 percent. If developers make games for web, and if a cell phone user comes to the online game. If they don’t have flash they wont be able to play it. Also more and more IT experts are noticing phones are increasingly being more used as game consoles.

I installed few months back Flash CS4 and i realized it looks allot like Premiere and 3d studio max together. Its starting to look like Adobe is trying to make the flash also a game development platform now because if you bring 3d into flash then sky is the limit. Now if they can just use OpenGL or DirectX we will really be talking.

After more then a month of trying to figure out why the ads were not coming on one of our sites. We finally found out. We had done, everything from updating the robots.txt file to google adsense requirements and everything but with little progress. Then we finally found it, if your site is in NON-english language and the adsense bot sees this, they try to load ads in that language. Try to remove or try to only show the other language for human visitors of the site. The adsense bot should only see english. If it sees allot of other language characters, it tries to load ads in that language, and if it can’t it shows charity ads or any other option you have selected to show if no ads are present. I hope that helps, cause it did the job for us.

I just tried to install a theme on a new joomla install. I got a error…

The Parameter-File /templates/siteground89/params.ini is Unwritable!

I looked around online and found out that the reason this error is coming because there is no params.ini file in the template folder. So i created a file params.ini from notepad and uploaded. Its important to change the rights on the file. So any FTP software your using should allow you to right click the file and change the rights to 777.

This worked for me and hopefully will work for you too.

We have launched a property forum for Canada too now, PropertyForum.ca. Here we will be able to talk about property market of Canada.

PropertyForum.ca

PropertyTalk.pk is a forum for pakistani real estate community and general people to talk about property buying, selling, renting and more.

PropertyTalk.pk

HotSpots.pk is a site for Pakistan to know where to go and what to do. It also has info on events happening everywhere in Pakistan and abroad.

HotSpots.pk

We have launched a forum for the Latvian Community called LatvianClub.com. Here Latvians will be able to interact with other Latvians around the world. The forum will have posts on whats happening in clubs around the world. Events happening in Latvian community and more. This will also be useful for people who are interested in visiting Latvia as a vacation. As its a very beautiful place and has allot to do.

LatvianClub.com

Today i was going through on of our forums we are trying to setup. And i noticed i had forgotten my password. Got worried for a sec and then i realized everything is in MD5 encrypted format now a days so we just need to put new password. I still googled it up and found a very simple way to reset the password for admin or any user.

Simply open up your phpBB DB, go to user table.

Find the user you want to change password of.

Find the column by the name of “user_password”, and simply put…

e10adc3949ba59abbe56e057f20f883e

This will reset your password to “123456″, without the quotes.

Hope this little tip helps!