The project you are trying to open is a web project you need to open it by specifying its URL path

The famous error “The project you are trying to open is a web project you need to open it by specifying its URL path” in visual studio .net.  Basically you have either lost your .webinfo file or your .webinfo file is pointing to the wrong project or wrong place. Took me a while to figure it out but hope that… Continue reading The project you are trying to open is a web project you need to open it by specifying its URL path

More of Scruffy – couldnt resist

Took this really nice picture of Scruffy today while at lunch. He looks so contented now its the summer, out in the garden. And him teasing ‘Mia the doggy’ and then having a scratch on the tree.  

The British Summer is here

Today is May the 27th and I think the summer has finally arrived here as its about 28 degrees outside, poor Scruffy was seeking some shelter under the table and chairs in the garden it was so hot.

Unable to connect to newer mysql database – Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client

Kept getting the message ‘Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client’ after upgrading the mysql server to a newer version than the client odbc driver and after much trawling found that you have to update the mysql user table to hold the password in the old format like so.. UPDATE mysql.userSET password=OLD_PASSWORD(‘somepassword’)WHERE user=’someuser’AND host=’somehost’;… Continue reading Unable to connect to newer mysql database – Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client

GD Lib with Bugzilla

Trying to get libpng and libjpeg support ??  You will need to install the developer versions of the libraries, on Fedora the easiest way is to use up2date ie. up2date libjpeg-devel and up2date libpng-devel this will install it then the configure for the makefile of libgd will pick the libraries up and install support for them. Also dont use the… Continue reading GD Lib with Bugzilla