Strictly Software

The Strictly iPhone Console - Debugging on iPhones

2012-06-02T19:53:00.000+01:00

The Strictly iPhone Console - Increasing real debugging without simulators #logger a{ color:navy; } #logger a:hover{ color:blue; } StrictlyDebug = { c:1, AddMsg:function(){ var m = "Message " + StrictlyDebug.c; StrictlyDebug.c++; if(typeof(window.console)!="undefined"){console.log(m)} } } Yesterday I blogged about debugging on iPhones and how useful the Debugger console was which

C# Betfair API Code for identifying WIN only markets

2012-06-02T00:47:00.000+01:00

Identifying WIN only markets on the BETFAIR API Updated 02-JUN-2012 As it's Derby day again I ran into the same problem as last year with this article except that the wrong market identified as WIN ONLY was the FAV SP market. One in which you bet on the favourites starting price. Therefore I have updated the BOT code for identifying a market from the Betfair API from HorseName, Racedatetime

Overcoming the Demand 5 TV Catchup Performance Problem

2012-05-30T06:30:00.000+01:00

Solving the Demand 5, Flash Movie problem - and other Catch Up TV website issues If you are from the UK then you may often like to catch up on missed TV programmes by watching the online TV catch up services such as BBC iPlayer, Channel Four's 4OD and Channel 5's TV Catch Up service called Demand 5. The past few nights I have been trying to catch up on a number of programmes shown on

Debugging Regular Expressions

2012-05-25T07:15:00.000+01:00

Regular Expressions - A guide to debugging Regular expressions are a powerful tool to master and a great skill to learn as a good expression can save many lines of procedural code. They can be used for many tasks and are especially great for validating user input such as form validation as well as great for cleaning content such as HTML entered from a content management system. When used with

Websites For Sale - Buy Now

2012-05-18T09:09:00.002+01:00

I am in the process of selling a number of domains and if you are interested please contact me to discuss a price. Most of these domains also have either code associated with them, Twitter accounts and automatic TweetBots that post to those accounts or post articles to the website. If you are interested in purchasing this code as well as the domain name then obviously this will cost you more.

Update to the Twitter Hash Tag Scanner Application

2012-05-17T14:46:00.001+01:00

This is just a note to anyone who has already bought or thinking of buying my Twitter Hash Tag Scanner application from my www.strictly-software.com site. I have just updated the code so that it gets round the new Twitter follower blocking actions they have implemented. If you have purchased it you might have noticed lately that you were getting the value 0 for all the accounts followers. This

Simple JavaScript EU Cookie Compliance Code

2012-04-30T06:40:00.003+01:00

JavaScript code to comply with EU law on Cookies and Privacy whilst browsing. Something I quickly did at work the other day was useful enough to put up on my site for people to download and use. I have just updated it to make it more customisable and even more useful so I thought I would update the blog as well. If you live in the European Union you might have been aware of a recent rule

Start Up Menu

2012-04-26T08:19:00.000+01:00

Cleaning up items from your Startup folder Yesterday I noticed on my new Windows 7 machine at work that I had an McAfee anti virus tool in my Startup directory. As I already have a company installed Kaspersky anti-virus tool (not my choice) I wondered how the hell it had got there (my memory is not as it used to be). Therefore I went searching for ways to clean up my Startup menu as having

Troubleshooting Internet Wireless Connectivity Problems

2012-04-26T07:43:00.000+01:00

Quickly diagnosing Network Issues on your Windows XP PC If you are like me and have a WinXP laptop at home then you will miss some of the nice diagnostic features Windows 7 comes with (we will skip Vista for obvious reasons) - By the way I have finally got a Windows 7 machine at home and at work! I like WinXP purely because it lets you do what you want without all those annoying pop ups

2012-04-19T06:32:00.001+01:00

I was recently asked how much I think I am worth in monetary value to a company and this got me to thinking that in this global economy in which India and China are churning out IT developers at factory rates all willing to put bids in for huge pieces of work on vworker.com for $200 and then spend their whole time on sites like this asking for help I wonder what my readers think someone with a

Fixing The Postie Plugin for Wordpress to use Categories in the Subject line

2012-03-27T18:30:00.001+01:00

Fixing the Postie WordPress plugin problem with categories in the Subject line I needed a way of sending posts into a Wordpress site by email and I was looking at their default POP3 email format for email publishing but I soon realised that this wasn't good enough as I wanted to add categories to my article at the same time. The default way didn't seem to offer a solution so I looked for some

Logging and Suppressing JavaScript errors

2012-03-24T19:31:00.000Z

Logging JavaScript errors to a file by overwriting the window.onerror method Sometimes you may have intermittent JavaScript errors that you cannot re-produce or maybe you just want to be able to log JavaScript errors for later viewing. Or maybe you just want to suppress them so that end users don't see them. By using the useful and also dangerous feature of being able to overwrite core

WordPress - New Post page not loading and missing category list

2012-03-16T11:24:00.000Z

Missing Categories and slow load time for New Post on Wordpress I just had a weird issue with Wordpress in that everytime I tried to open a new post to write an article the page would hang forever and when it eventually loaded no categories would appear in the list on the right. The categories were definitley there so I don't know why they weren't loading. However I went through all my

Another MySQL Tuning Tool

2012-03-08T00:06:00.000Z

MySQL Configuration and Tuning One thing I really don't like about MySQL compared to MS SQL is the number of configurable options and the lack of data management views to help you diagnose performance issues. Yes there are tools available but I haven not come across anything as good as the Activity Monitor for an overview of your servers performance in MySQL. Being able to quickly see the

The Wordpress Survival Guide Part 3 - Security

2012-03-03T18:10:00.002Z

This is the 3rd part of the Wordpress Survival Guide which looks at security measures. The other two guides which cover basics for people new to Linux, Apache and Wordpress and Performance can be found here: The Wordpress Survival Guide Part 1 - Linux, Apache and Wordpress The Wordpress Survival Guide Part 2 - Performance If you have an under powered or busy server then security and performance

How to delete a Virtual Server using Virtualmin

2012-02-27T09:00:00.000Z

Deleting a Virtual Server from your server - Replacing the default site domain on a server with an IP address The other day I talked about how you can setup a website for testing on your LINUX server using host headers so that you can test it before purchasing a domain name. Now I did this on one PC and gave the virtual server a particular name in the hosts file so I could access it but

How to install WebMin on LINUX

2012-02-27T07:53:00.000Z

How to install WebMin on LINUX If you are from a Windows background and used to graphical interfaces then moving to a LINUX system can be quite a challenge due to the fact that most techies like to use commands from the console to carry out their work. Whilst it is a good opportunity to learn some of the commands when you first rent a virtual server from Rackspace or buy your own box then you

Using Host Headers on a Virtual Server and creating a new site before buying a domain name

2012-02-25T03:58:00.003Z

How to create and test a website before buying the domain name Sometimes you may want to create a new website but don't have a domain name to point it at but still want to test everything is working. Today I wanted to do this and there were a number of issues I had to work through so I thought I would list them for all the Windows developers who are new to LINUX and APACHE. The site was a

Debugging on the iPhone

2012-02-21T15:43:00.000Z

Debugging Console on iPhone I have an iPhone 3GS and one thing I have always found annoying is that when I am developing web pages for display on the iPhone you cannot debug them as easily as you can with a PC. Yes you can get simulators and use user-agent switchers but they are not the same as debugging on the real device. If I use an agent switcher and change my user-agent to GoogleBot or

Low Server Usage, Long Page Loads with APACHE Caching

2012-02-05T19:54:00.000Z

Disabling Apache Caching improves LAMP Server Performance On one of my virtual servers which runs LAMP on only a 1GB RAM box with a couple of quite high traffic sites I have been experiencing an intermittent problem which had the following symptoms. Long page load wait time - Spinning browser window with nothing happening Very low server load average < 10 despite large number of requests to

Problem with Google Chrome and Twitter

2012-01-10T22:42:00.000Z

Google Chrome 16.0 and Twitter Direct Message Problem First, I can't believe my version of Chrome is now on 16.0.912.75. It seems like only yesterday I had Chrome version 1 and it didn't change for a good while. Unlike Internet Explorer which refuses to force automatic updates on their browser users which mean developers still have to cater for IE 6 and non standard compliant code due to IE 9

Remote Desktop Access Denied Error

2012-01-04T20:12:00.000Z

Troubleshooting Issues with Remote Desktop / Terminal Services This morning I tried remotely accessing my work PC which is always left on from my home laptop. However after my first attempt I was met with the following error which appears om the login screen on the remote PC. "the refereced account is currently locked out and cannot be logged on to" I tried pinging the PC and could get a

Troubleshooting WAMP Server Installation on Windows 7 machines

2011-12-31T11:45:00.000Z

Troubleshooting WAMP Server installation on Windows 7 computersI like to code in both PHP and .NET or ASP so on my laptop or PC I need to be able to run both PHP code and .NET code. As both languages use different web servers to run their code this means on Windows PC's I have been installing WAMP Server to run and test any PHP code. However ever since moving to a new laptop (Windows 7 64 bit) I

New form of Web Site DOS attack leaves millions vulnerable

2011-12-30T15:31:00.001Z

New security vulnerability can cause most popular websites to become susceptible to DOS attacks. In a demo called "Efficient Denial of Service Attacks on Web Application Platforms" hosted by Alexander “alech” Klink and Julian “zeri” Wälde they explained in detail how most web programming languages utilize hashes and manage collisions. We are not talking about encryption here but the common

Running Whois commands from a Windows PC

2011-12-29T10:33:00.003Z

How to run Whois commands from Windows Computers Unlike LINUX this is a little more complicated and you will need to use a 3rd party tool like WhoisCL which you can download from here: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/WhoisCL-Download-44833.html Be careful to click the "External Mirror link" and not the bright flashing "Download Now link" which is just there to trick you into downloading