Author Archives: Juan

Cryptographically Random Unique String

Looking for a way to create a Random Password Generator, I came across the following code written by Peter Bromberg (I thought to post it here in case it saves someone some time). This code will generate a cryptographically random unique string of any length you want. Ah! BTW, I’ve made a very small modification [...]

I’m still here

I haven’t had the time to write more tips because I’ve been working on a big project which is almost complete. As soon as I can, I wanna share with you guys some tips/tutorials on how to do more complex SQL queries like combining different JOINs and such. I’ll be using MySQL for this. Later, [...]

System.Web.HttpException: The file ‘/path/to/userControl.ascx’ does not exist.

If you’re working with User Controls (or other server side controls) and your file structure looks something like this: [] = directory [root] [userControls] ucTest.ascx ….. ucContainer.aspx Web.config And in your ucContainer.aspx file you have something similar to this: < %@ Register Src=”userControls/ucTest.ascx” TagName=”UserControl” TagPrefix=”uc1″ %> … … <uc1:UserControl id=”ucUserControl” runat=”server” /> … … And [...]

Just Upgraded to Version 2.1

WordPress 2.1 Ella has been released a few hours ago. I just upgraded my blog to this new version and it’s just awesome. These are some of its new features: Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing [...]

Parser Error Message: Could not load type ‘_Default’

While developing a .Net web app in C# with Visual Studio 2005, I got this error: Parser Error Message: Could not load type ‘_Default’ The reason: My website configuration was using the wrong .NET framework version (1.1.4322). The solution: Change it to use a .NET 2.0 version. In my case, 2.0.50727 The result: a nicely [...]

Disabling the PHPSESSID in the Query String

If you’ve worked with PHP sessions, probably your URL looked something like this: http://www.yourdomain.com/page.php?PHPSESSID=59aa95ad46cd67d82ba0f812407326dd If you don’t like the PHPSSID being displayed in the query string, you might have wondered how to disable it. Well, a way to disable it is by setting session.use_trans_sid to off in your php.ini. However, if you don’t have access [...]

/usr/bin/wget: Permission denied

If you’ve ever got the error /bin/sh: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied when trying to execute a .php script using a cron job, spent minutes/hours trying to find a solution to this, well, I hope this post will help you to save some time. It’s possible that your hosting provider, for security reasons, is not allowing you [...]