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For a website rewrite I am working on I am using Joomla 1.5 with CakePHP 1.2, using the Jake beta bridge (which so far is working great!). I want to have: SEO-friendly URLs for Joomla, hence I am running Apache, which I found far easier to configure than IIS. Hence Joomla runs in the webroot.… Continue reading Integrating CakePHP and Joomla

Today I enabled IIS on my Vista box for the first time in order to run an existing ASP site. Here are my gotchas: ASP handlers are not enabled by default I went to Control Panel->Programs and Features->Turn Windows features on or off, and then checked the box for IIS without thinking about it. However,… Continue reading Gotchas when first installing IIS on Vista

So I saw this ugly message when trying to compile a SWF from an FLA: “Error initializing Java Runtime Environment” Flash CS3 (and CS4 I’m sure) apparently uses a Java compiler during the publish process, and perhaps other times too. Unfortunately in CS3 it looks like it is hardcoded to a certain VM version as… Continue reading Fixing Flash CS3 and Java error, on a PC

I’m prototyping a Facebook app, with the CakePHP framework as described here, and I hadn’t looked at the API for a few months, and never with my current hosting provider. A few things I found out: The “sample code” gzip off Facebook’s SVN server has a much different layout than the one linked off the… Continue reading Gotchas with my reintroduction to the Facebook API

This is a followup to my earlier post about the development experience for MCE plugins. First, check out the “Media Center Markup Language Preview Tool” page in the CHM help file that’s included with the SDK. It gives a number of tips, the most helpful of which (and successful, I might add) is to launch… Continue reading Tricks for debugging Vista Media Center plugins, part II