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Debate: To Ping or Not To Ping?

By | January 31, 2010

…that is the question! An interesting thread over on vbforums.com brought up the topic of using a ping to condition whether or not to continue performing a network task. One argument is that you want to see if there is a viable connection to the remote device before you try to do anything to/with it. [...]

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Got Error 500?

By | January 1, 2010

Do you often get an Error 500 when viewing a Wordpress post on your site? The answer may lie in your .htaccess file. By simply adding the following line to the root directory’s .htaccess file, you can overcome this frustrating problem

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