Muller Digital | Web Programming » Web

Coda – Error code 37 – “Host Key Changed for…”

nick — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:35:52 +0000

Coda error code 37, caused when a site’s ip address changes, and the SSH keys are no longer valid. It can be fixed by connecting with Coda’s Terminal and reading the response. Which will tell you what line on the known_hosts file the old key, that then needs to be deleted, can be found.

TD Waterhouse stock cost calculator – update

nick — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:43:03 +0000

http://news.mullerdigital.com/examples/td_share_cost_calculator/
I’ve updated the calculator to include the sell price for stocks as well as all the fees incurred during a sale.

TD Waterhouse stock cost calculator

nick — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:06:57 +0000

http://news.mullerdigital.com/examples/td_share_cost_calculator/

This tool is to help estimate costs for shares being purchased through TD Waterhouse on the NYSE, NASDAQ and TSX exchanges. It includes the fees and exchange rates for both the Canadian and US dollar amounts.

Google public data

nick — Fri, 21 May 2010 00:13:26 +0000

Google public data has a variety of world information displayed in various animated charts and graphs.

Allow PHP to access files but not website visitors

nick — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:56:09 +0000

Add the following to an .htaccess file, and all .php files under the .htaccess file will not be available via the web:
Order deny,allow Deny from all

The files will be available through PHP though. As PHP is not requesting the files through Apache webserver, rather is it requesting include files via the file system.

webcal link in IE

nick — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:21:06 +0000

webcal links (eg. webcal://www.domain.com/calendar.ics)will only work in Internet Explorer if Outlook 2007 is installed on the users machine. Office 2003 or earlier do not install the support required to make webcal links active.

“This page contains both secure and nonsecure items” IE fix

nick — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:09:10 +0000

Use a CGI proxy service on your secure site. Download CGIProxy. Upload to your sites cgi-bin folder (most hosting packages will have that set already). Once uploaded, change the permissions of the ‘nph-proxy.cgi’ file to 755 (rwxr-xr-x) Owner=Read,Write,Excute Group=Read, No Write, Excute Everyone=Read, No Write, Execute.
Visit the CGI script on your secure address: https://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi
Type in the address of the non-secure item you’re trying to show on your secure site. Uncheck “Show URL entry form”. Click “Begin Browsing”.
After the page loads, you can copy the address from the address bar, and it will be using your secure address.
Should look something like: https://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000000A/http/www.nonsecure-site.com/awesome-page.html
Now paste that address in your site and no more IE warning.

.htaccess tutorial reference and cheat sheet

nick — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:31:19 +0000

Best reference of all things .htaccess perishablepress

Post, share, receive, send and download audio files

nick — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:21:53 +0000

Soundcloud is a free audio third-party (a.k.a. “not my problem”) service that allows you to post, share, receive, send and download audio files with anyone, anywhere. Also allows you to manage your audio files efficiently and effectively in “the cloud”.

Supporting iPhone custom protocols

nick — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:40:53 +0000

The iPhone Safari browser supports several extra protocols to launch their corresponding apps:
Apple documentation on iPhone integration

sms ex. Text this ( Text this ) For SMS texting
tel ex. Phone this ( Phone this ) For regular phone calls
youtube ex. Singing Shiba ( Singing Shiba ) Starting youtube videos
itms ex. ZipCar App ( Items ) ZipCar App
maps ex. CN Tower ( CN Tower ) Launching maps with address marker