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Fixing Mistakes in Firefox’s Spelling Dictionary
If you accidentally add a misspelled word to your Firefox dictionary, here are the steps to remove it. The words that you have added to your dictionary are stored in file called “persdict.dat”. It is located in your Firefox Profile directory. To Get to your Firefox Profile Directory in Windows: Click Start Menu -> Run, […]
Continue reading...Rejected-By-UrlScan 404 Errors
3. July 2009
If you are getting some unexplainable 404 errors when accessing html or asp.net pages in IIS, and have exhausted the more common issues, check out your log file for URLScan errors. URLScan is a Microsoft security tool to help protect Internet Information Server. On your developer environment it might be getting in the way. How […]
Continue reading...Using Tabs in a WordPress Post
2. July 2009
Here is an example of using tab characters in a blog post. To get this: Column1 Column2 A Apple B Banana C Coconut You can copy and paste this: <pre> Column1 	 Column2 A 	 Apple B 	 Banana C 	 Coconut </pre> The trick to this is using the ‘<pre>’ tag and the html entity code for tab: […]
Continue reading...Escaping Characters in JavaScript
1. July 2009
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Some characters can not be represented in a string in JavaScript, other characters might have a specific meaning in JavaScript. Here is a list of common escape sequences: \' Single Quote \n Newline \" Double Quote \t Tab \\ Backslash \b Backspace \f Form feed \r Carriage return To use, simply insert them into your […]
Continue reading...Specify Username and Password in URL
30. June 2009
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Here is the format to specify a username and password in a URL or ftp address: ftp://username:password@mysite.com/ or just the username: ftp://username@mysite.com/ It is not very secure to place the username and password in the URL however if you need to do testing or troubleshooting, it can come in handy. Most web browsers today do […]
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4. July 2009
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