1) Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.

2) Expand your computer list on the left then click on Application Pools.

3) Locate the application pool used by your Sharepoint website.

4) Right-click on the application pool and select Recycle.

You should now be able to connect to your Sharepoint website using Sharepoint Designer as usual.

a:focus {
	outline:none;
}

In the above example, all links that become focused won’t display the outline.

Keep in mind that hiding that outline will prevent people use keyboard navigation to see which element is selected.

function permalize($input) {
	return str_replace(' ','_',strtolower(trim(preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]/", '', $input))));
}

Note that you can use some special characters in URLs (like + and -), I usually like to remove them completely, but it is totally fine to leave them should you choose to.

If you don’t want to rely on a permalink to retrieve database data about your item, you can still insert the ID in the URL (e.g. /shop/34655/adobe_photoshop_cs5/ ). The permalink could then be discarded in the code while still providing better readability and SEO.

Today, Adobe launched the new Creative Suite 5. There’s is tons of great new features especially in Photoshop and After Effects. Speaking of Photoshop, the new Content Aware fill is simply incredible. You can mark an area to fill and the software will analyse the surrounding patterns and colors to fill in and remove the area you selected.

But of course, my main tool is Fireworks and while the CS4 version was full of bugs and crashing frequently, I’ve seen it mature in the development stages and I can now say it’s really stable and these problems are things of the past. I’ve not had a single crash or the classic “An unknown error occurred" message using the last milestone build. Fireworks also boot in just a few seconds (as fast as 3-4 seconds) compared to the slow 15 seconds of CS4.

There is also the new Compound feature which is similar to the vector path tools but let you preserve the shapes you used to build that vector and edit them in real-time. Another great new feature is the “Snap to pixel” function which relocate the shape borders to the nearest pixel in the canvas. Blurry borders when resizing vectors are thing of the past.

Another new feature is the possibility to save projects as templates so you can easily use them as base projects later.

While there is some great new features in Fireworks CS5, the main goal in this release was to fix bugs and achieve better performance and stability, which the development team did. It’s really a good thing they decided to stop working on new features as the base platform was getting more and more buggy. The application is now back on track as a powerful and stable design and prototyping tool.

I hope you will enjoy this new release of Fireworks because I certainly do!

http://www.adobe.com/products/fireworks/

I tried to add additional RewriteCond and RewriteRule to catch the password-protected directories before WordPress does but without success. The trick is in fact much more simple than that. You simply need to tell Apache to go to a custom 401 page of your choice (it can be blank or the default page, doesn’t matter). You will then be prompted with a login box and let you proceed to the password-protected directory. Should the login be wrong, the custom page will be displayed. No more annoying WordPress url rewriting!

Here’s the code: (notice the usual WordPress code, you simply need to add the ErrorDocument line above it)

ErrorDocument 401 default

# BEGIN WordPress
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</ifmodule>
# END WordPress

Then I read on EastWest forums about Reaper. It’s a DAW that is even more optimized than Cubase, has 64bit support, free routing of MIDI and audio. The price? 60$. But wait, prepare to be shocked, it only does everything Cubase 5 can do and more. Another surprise? It’s less than 5mb and the license is good for another major upgrade in the future. It looks even better than Cubase 5.

But the best thing about Reaper is the workflow. In less than 2 minutes, I was ready to go, VSTis loaded and ready to play. It appears to be much more stable than Cubase as well and an even lower latency.

I’m still using the 30-day evaluation version but I’m definitely getting a license in the next weeks.

Finally an audio product made by audio developers and not a marketing team.

BUY THIS GAME

Epic gameplay, graphics, audio and multiplayer. If you own a PS3, it’s definitely a game to get.

That’s exactly what I did. Sure enough, the LEDs were working just fine. But their dynamic saving features also causes some serious audio issues. I started to hear frequent pops and clicks noises when listening to audio, and that from any audio applications. I first tried to re-install drivers, disable some apps I had recently installed, no luck. Then I had the idea to de-activate the DES functionality: no more audio issues.

Even more proof that you shouldn’t install any applications that comes bundled with your hardware.

In my opinion, writing large blocks of documentation is, most of the time, useless and time consuming. It is possible write code in a way that it can be read by anyone with very short amount of documentation. It all starts with naming your functions correctly, dividing long blocks of code in short functions that are self-explained.

So I decided to share some best practices I’ve read or learned over time.

Naming

// INCORRECT
function Getlastmessages()
function GetLastMessages()
function getLastMessages()

// CORRECT
function get_last_messages()

Sure the CamelCase version isn’t bad, but the best way to name methods is by separating words with an underscore.

You should name your classes the same way but by using an uppercase letter as the first letter. (ex: Get_last_message)

Constants also follow the same rule but all letters are in uppercase (ex: GET_LAST_MESSAGE)

HTML Output

Unless the HTML to output is relatively short, you should always close PHP, write your HTML and then open PHP back.

Use the short <?= tag (if enabled on your server) to open PHP to output a variable.

TRUE, FALSE and NULL

// INCORRECT
$var = true;
$var = True;
if($var == null) {}

// CORRECT
$var = TRUE;
$var = FALSE;
if($var == NULL) {}

Always write conditional values in uppercase.

PHP Files ending

As strange as it sounds, you shouldn’t close PHP at the end of PHP file. You should instead include a standard comment at the end and that’s it.

<?php
// PHP CODE HERE

/* End of file index.php
/* Location: ./application/index.php */

Why? Because PHP will close automatically as it reaches the end of the file but more importantly, it will prevent any whitespace or line breaks issues at the end of the file.

UTF-8 File Encoding and Unix line-breaks

Your code editor should always be configured to use UTF-8 encoding and Unix style line breaks. This will ensure compatibility with most languages and servers configuration.