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Handling MySQL Errors Using The $wpdb Class
When you write a WordPress plugin, there is almost no way around executing queries to the WordPress database. The $wpdb class provides all the necessary tools to do so. Now, I wondered how one could figure out if there was a MySQL error while executing a query – be it a typo in the actual query, an error while establishing a connection to the database or a missing table. … Read entire article »
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ActiveSync Troubleshooting
Today, I seemed to have disconnected my PocketPC too early. After this, I couldn’t get it to sync with Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 on my XP SP3 installation any longer: it said that the USB device could not be recognized. If this happens to you, try the following: deinstall ActiveSync, restart your PC, reinstall ActiveSync, restart your PC again (important!), reconnect the PocketPC. It should work fine again now. The first time, I forgot to restart the PC after reinstalling ActiveSync – which ended up with the same USB device failure, so be sure to restart your PC before reconnecting your device. … Read entire article »
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Image Manipulation: Marco/Bruce
Just found this one inside my “My Pictures” folder… … Read entire article »
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Thnkx, Kid, but…
Image courtesy of icanhascheezburger.com. … Read entire article »
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How To Rearrange The Tabs Order In iGoogle
I have always been wondering how I could change the order of my iGoogle tabs – before, I was manually doing this by creating a new tab, copying the content of the desired tab to the new one and then deleting the old tab until I finally had the order I wanted: Google provided no other way. Well, it is easy now: click the title of the tab, then the down arrow, select “edit this tab” – and you can then rearrange the order… nice. … Read entire article »
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Staring Contest On ibeatyou.com Featuring Jessica Alba
I stumbled across these videos when I was visiting Google to login and check my emails. So, there is this guy with the nick Kevjumba who got challenged by BoomDizzle on ibeatyou.com – and at the end of that challenge (which was a staring contest), he then challenged none other than Jessica Alba: –> www.youtube.com/watch?v=CguCyEX51Gc Guess what? She accpeted the challenge! … Read entire article »
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Harley Davidson “Swedish” Chopper
Taken at a Shell petrol station in Hannover on May 17th, 2008. … Read entire article »
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Website Under Attack
I just recently took a look at my “Blog Info” stats page and saw the following: I opened the hits table page of the FireStats WordPress plugin and saw a lot of traffic coming from the IPs starting with 83.190.___.___ (click here to see a screenshot from that “hits table” which grew really large because of those IP hit entries). … Read entire article »
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About A Dawn
About A Boy and Dawn Of The Dead becomes About A Dawn… or maybe Boy Of The Dead. … Read entire article »
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