Archives for August 2007

Checking the Version of IIS

To check the version of IIS on your Windows machine, click Start -> Run and type inetmgr.
The IIS version number will be in the right pane (e.g., IIS V6.0).

10 August 2007 | Windows XP | No Comments

Do You Work in a Real Software Company?

This is my third week in my new job as .NET Software Engineer. Finally I feel that I’m in a real software company.
Er … hold on, what do I mean by “real”?
I’ll start by defining not real.

A dotcom startup is not a real software company because its primary purpose is to make as much money […]

9 August 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Went to GoDaddy

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but this site had been going down regularly for the past couple of days. According to my (now previous) webhosting company it was due to DNS issues which they said they would sort out. Then last night there was a hard disk failure. Even the homepage of the webhosting […]

8 August 2007 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

IE Progress Bar Loading Forever for Iframe

IE’s progress bar sometimes makes it seem that the page is loading forever when you load a page in an iframe. The following is a workaround for it:

Create a blank.html file in the root web directory. This file need not contain anything.
Create an invisible iframe in your page by setting frameborder=”0″ and style=”height: 0; width: […]

6 August 2007 | Software engineering, HTML, Javascript | No Comments

PHP Training

If you’re looking for PHP training my friend Ady Romantika might be able to help. I can’t vouch for his training ability, but he says he likes to teach, and in most cases we’re pretty good at what we love to do. He’s been doing PHP since the year 2000 (PHP 3). You can also […]

5 August 2007 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment