Fix for Dreamweaver CS 4 : Server Model SSI.htm: has configuration information that is invalid

Came back from a CS 5 Roadshow and Dreamweaver CS 4 decides to go a bit wonky.
The following translators were not loaded due to errors:Server Model SSI.htm: has configuration information that is invalid.
Fixing it with these steps (thanks to Sachin (link))

Close Dreamweaver, if it is already open.
Open this folder: “C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\en_US\Configuration”
Delete [...]

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Installing iPhone OS 4.0 beta on the iPhone 3GS

The recent announcement of iPhone OS 4.0 beta brought some interested features for developers. I’m still pretty new to iPhone development and was trying to figure out how to update my phone. Below are the instructions once you’ve downloaded the IPSW file to update the firmware.
Installing iPhone 4.0 beta on the iPhone

Make sure to have [...]

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Quick way to create patch files based on modified date with xcopy

Recent projects and deployment method made it difficult to simply publish changes to a web server. Had been doing it manually (check for modified files, copy and transfer) and thought it was wasting too much time each day when change requests occur. After some quick research, I realized that the simplest method would just be [...]

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Re-installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (910) with a USB drive

Quick n dirty Guide to Re-installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (910)
For fun to get blood pressure to suitable level.

Go to Dell website and look-up the manual for the netbook. Note they mention re-installing operating system requires a optical drive and installation media. They forgot to add “Sucks to be you if [...]

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Solving a small issue with Paypal standard payment

Was testing out a site that was about to go live and came up with this error even though the sandbox account worked ok. It seems that the live merchant account wasn’t setup properly.
The error upon submitting the payment data to Paypal
Data does not match input character set or default encoding. For more information, please [...]

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Day 2 with Google Wave

Impressions after more partipants have gotten their invites. Wave is a huge mess once everyone tries to talk (not unlike a real life meeting). You can also hijack a person’s message if you want to so that can be rather distracting. Still not sure how it’s going to work unless we work on a project using [...]

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Day 1 with Google Wave

Managed to get Google Wave access yesterday and have been testing out the various features. An area of interest to me is how to best reduce the UI clutter of various windows and incoming streams as I keep up to date with news and try to work at the same time.
The concept of waves to mash [...]

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Useful applications to make life easier in web design and development

Just put up this list to share with others in the team so thought I might as well post it here since it could be useful to folks starting out in web development. Do feel free to add on to the list if there’s something useful for us to use.
Mind Mapping
XMind http://www.xmind.net/ (Thanks to @David_Shen [...]

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Places I’ve worked in (and had a desk)

Walked past the old office in Chinatown yesterday and realised that over the years, I’ve had a desk in various parts of Singapore and tried to recall where they were.
The list so far in chronological order

American Express - The Concourse, Beach Road
RBR Networks – KA Centre, 150 Kampong Ampat
JuzPC – Kallang Place and Circular Road
EdLabs – [...]

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Getting Dreamweaver CS4 to code highlight .phtml files

I’m currently working on a Magento project which requires some custom template work and with Dreamweaver, it doesn’t color code the syntax for .phtml files even though they are just php files in disguise. A simple solution would have been to allow different extensions to be specified in the preferences but of course, hiding [...]

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