This is the story of how one simple setting can waste valuable time. I was working on a project that involves some basic PHP and MySQL modifications. In order to do the development work and the testing, I used my local WAMP server installation. I downloaded the files and nailed down the most obvious environmental [...]
For some reason two of my MySQL databases required repair this week. Both were backing Joomla 1.5 installations – our corporate site (grownbypeople.com) and our old news website (informify.com), which we’ve left running. When browsing to the sites they both produced the same MySQL error #145. And it was the session table that was corrupted [...]
One of my clients is a high school reunion organizer. She hires me to build and maintain the sites used for registering and other reunion-related stuff. These sites are built in Joomla 1.0.15 on Linux/MySQL servers. She uses GoDaddy for her hosting provider. I’m usually able to simply copy/paste the last site I made for [...]
