Blog | Rimu Atkinson

Reduce MAMP memory usage by limiting the number of Apache processes

January 25, 2015 / by Rimu Atkinson / LINUX, Programming / 2 comments

When developing web sites on a Mac it is common to use MAMP. By default MAMP will run several Apache processes because that’s just what Apache does by default – having several processes means several requests can be served at once. But, in a local development scenario, this is very unlikely to happen because the […]

Getting ASP.Net 1.1 running on linux – a trap for Ubuntu 9.04 users

April 15, 2010 / by Rimu Atkinson / ASP.NET / 0 comments

On 9.04 when you install mono from the repos by following these instructions, (and opt not to install ASP.Net 2.0 and just go with the default of 1.0) then you end up with a mis-configuration of the web server – it’s looking for the 2.0 version of the .Net framework when all you have is […]

First page not printing in IE 7

December 17, 2009 / by Rimu Atkinson / CSS, Design / 0 comments

A weird problem was happening on one of my sites where IE 7 could print off a web page, but the first page of printing was blank – the content wasn’t pushed off to the second page, the first page was simply empty and the second continued on from where the first would have ended. […]

Ubuntu – gnome panels hanging randomly after using “Connect to Server” (gvfs)??

August 7, 2009 / by Rimu Atkinson / APPLICATION, LDAP, LINUX / 0 comments

For ages I put up with random hangs and where some or all of my panels would stop responding, and completely rebooting was the only solution (killall gnome-panels wouldn’t unfreeze things either; all the hung panels disappear, but then nothing comes back in their place)… I knew it had something to do with connecting to […]

drupal with active directory (ldap)

May 5, 2009 / by Rimu Atkinson / APPLICATION, CSS, Design, Work / 0 comments

Getting drupal authenticating logins against active directory can be intimidating, at first. I certainly felt that way. A few hints You will need PHP installed with the ldap extension. Use phpinfo(); to check if it’s there. Without that you can’t even begin. The ldap_integration module for drupal is fantastic, but the configuration is confusing if […]

Web development languages in use in NZ

March 4, 2009 / by Rimu Atkinson / CSS, Design, WordPress, Work / 0 comments

Today I ran a poll on the NZWEBDEV email list, and asked members to indicate which server side languages they regularly use in their work. Results are below but you’ll need to click on the image for a legible version. PHP is the clear winner. I’m surprised that the microsoft languages were not more […]

drupal: inserting flash content (youtube videos) fails to display in IE

February 18, 2009 / by Rimu Atkinson / APPLICATION, COMPUTERS / 0 comments

One of the drupal web sites I work on had a problem where any youtube video that was posted to the site failed to display on internet explorer. Any other browser worked fine. The code we were trying to insert was this: <object height=”350″ width=”425″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″ classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″> <param name=”src” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/l0aVaRrBYQE” /> <embed height=”350″ width=”425″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/l0aVaRrBYQE” […]

theming just one node in drupal

December 4, 2008 / by Rimu Atkinson / CSS, Design, Programming / 0 comments

Drupal’s theming system uses file names to decide which theme to apply to whatever page the visitor is asking for. So page-front.tpl.php is the front page, block-footer.tpl.php is any block in the footer, page-node-10.tpl is the page that contains node 10, etc etc However, out of the box, there is no way to theme just […]

rails error: IOError: Couldn’t load the unicode tables for UTF8Handler (dump format error(0xb))

November 21, 2008 / by Rimu Atkinson / Resources / 0 comments

Argh I can’t believe how long it took for me to track this one down. No one else on the internet had reported the problem before, so trusty ole google was no help. So I’m putting this one out there, to help others. This error is caused when a file vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/unicode_tables.dat becomes corrupted. The easiest […]

asp.net: huge difference between DataView.Table and DataView.ToTable

November 16, 2008 / by Rimu Atkinson / ASP.NET / 0 comments

Both DataView.Table and DataView.ToTable return a DataTable from a DataView. The difference is that .Table gives you the underlying data, with no changes from the dataview’s sorting or filtering. ToTable on the other hand, gives you the data in the dataview after filtering and sorting! This is the sort of thing I’ve come to expect […]

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