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collection is read only exception

22 June 2010

This little gem cropped up the other day while putting together a quick aspx page to pull out some records from an access database. Essentially a category ID was passed in the querystring and this was then used as select parameter for an access datasource. Pretty normal stuff, after all query...

PayPal sending incorrect carrier information

14 June 2010

Marking an item as sent shows it as posted in your list of transactions and also notifies the customer their order is on its way. This would be great if it worked properly... If you use the Royal Mail and do not have tracking information, do not check the box which says "no, I don't have ...

paypal guest user notice

07 June 2010

Although PayPal say that you don't need a PayPal account to use their payment gateway, you can in fact only do so 20 times on those websites which use PayPal's Standard shopping basket. If you exceed this limit you will be told that your status as a Guest User is no longer valid and you must cre...

classic asp dictionary not working

13 April 2010

Found an interesting feature of the classic dictionary object. Consider this code block: dim conn dim rs dim myDictionary set conn = server.CreateObject("ADODB.connection") conn.open connPublic 'connPublic is just a normal connection string set rs = server.CreateObject("ADODB.reco...

IE8 not supporting innerHTML

07 April 2010

consider this javascript snippet: document.getElementById('optionsTable').innerHTML = 'OptionPriceStock'; There is a table on the page with id="optionsTable", and the table has always loaded before th...

differences between jet and odbc

26 February 2010

Consider these two connection strings: "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=" & server.MapPath("\somedb.mdb") "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ="& server.MapPath("\somedb.mdb") I have never really noticed any major difference between these two connection strings in ter...

sugarcrm not inserting email

28 December 2009

Do you get an error starting like this when you are trying to get sugar to do an email broadcast? for column 'description_html' at row 1 Sugar then lays out your email in an escaped format on the screen, if you do then this might help... There are a few bits of information about errors like this ...