Jul 30 2008

Vista 4gb Problem – Solution


First of all i d like to remind that In most new pc configurations Vista cant be installed in 4gb systems. You have to uninstal 2gb and then when Windows setup is complete you can use the other 2gb.

How to Enable More Than 3.5 GB of Memory in 32-Bit Windows Vista
You’re probably wondering why I picked a number as horrible as 3.5GB? Why not 4GB? Well, there’s a really technical explanation for this but to make a long explanation short, 32-bit operating systems can only handle up to 4GB of memory. In fact, this number may vary but I stuck with 3.5 GB. Along with the RAM, you also have other memory-mapped devices such as your video cards. The memory used counts towards the 4GB virtual memory address capacity of a 32-bit operating system. But actually, the world does not end at 4,096 megabytes for 32-bit Windows Vista users anymore because the Arsgeek is here to save the day.

If you’ve accidentally bought 4GB of RAM, this may be a good idea. And I say may because many 32-bit operating systems begin to lose efficiency as they surpass the 4GB mark. For that reason, if you have less than 3GB RAM, it’s not necessarily the best idea to go out and buy some more RAM. If you want to utilize more RAM (between 8GB and 128GB), you can always switch to 64-bit Windows Vista. Alright, enough babbling. Let’s get started.

Steps:

1) Access cmd: Click on the Start Pearl > type cmd in the Search Bar > and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter (this allows you to run cmd in administrative mode)

2) Type BCDEdit /set PAE forceenable

“BCDEdit is a boot configuration editor for the command line. Using the above command you’ve just enabled Physical Address Extension (PAE) which can address memory larger than 4 GB. ” – Arsgeek

Source: Arsgeek


Jul 19 2008

HMTL Utility – HTMLEncode- HTMLDecode- URLEncode- UrlDecode

This is a utility to convert text to valid html or ulr characters and back.
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Jul 18 2008

Ajax Autocomplete Tutorial

This a solution i used in many autocomplete input fields. I have implemented it to php and C# web application.
Dont be scared to use it, its really simple to use. The tutorial is fully explanatory.

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Jul 16 2008

IIS Server Error

Every developer likes to take certain things for granted – like ASP.Net being configured correctly with IIS. However sometimes there will just be something non-obvious that is preventing ASP.Net pages from being served, returning an Http 500 error instead. The frustrating thing is that these are often caused by system configuration issues that most developers should never need to worry about. Below I offer some advice intended for IIS 5.1 on a local dev machine that resolves some of these errors. The problem is most likely:

  1. IIS or ASP.Net simply not installed correctly
  2. Security configuration

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Jul 10 2008

Retain scroll position after browser refresh

Retain scroll position after browser refresh
As Joel Spolsky points out, updating web pages by getting just the bits of information that have changed instead of refreshing the whole page is the wave of the future. Whether we’re calling web services within a client-side page or using a gmail-like JavaScript technique (darn cool), it’s going to be a major architectural shift. It’s going to be hard.

In the meantime, there is a really easy way to fix the problem of having to scroll back down to the part of the page you were using when a refresh occurred. Because ASP.NET’s post-back model forces a trip to the server for anything interesting to happen, this technique is essential if you’re using ASP.NET. However, it works just as well in Perl, PHP, JSP – whatever your server-side technology. It requires client-side JavaScript to be enabled, but so do the fancier techniques we are looking forward to.
Note that you could also just turn “smart navigation” on in ASP.NET, but I’ve had issues where smart navigation messes up other JavaScript. I prefer not to use it.
I’ve implemented an example of the technique for this post separately in PHP and ASP.NET/C#. You can see the PHP example in action or download a zip file of the ASP.NET/C# example. For both examples, I use hidden fields and client-side script. They imply an http POST, and typically you will be posting to the same page. You could make it work with GET and/or with another page, but the problem itself gets more confusing in those scenarios.

Here is the complete PHP example:

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Feb 21 2008

jQuery a great tool for any ServerSide Scripting Language

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One of the most used framework for making your web application more live, interactive. There is been a while since I run into it, but recently I decided to use it. Main reason is when i saw the sits that actually use the jQuery framework. Take a look here and you ll be suprised by the big company names.

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Feb 17 2008

ComponentArt

This is actually the reason i begun this blog … Occasionally I run into beautiful frameworks, nice pages, evolutionary ideas. Continue reading