On Partnerships…
Building partnerships is an exercise web entrepreneurs should master. When venturing with someone into a new business, be it an investor, a co-founder or an employee, make sure you are with the right person:
- Trust is important. If trust cannot be established for any reason whatsoever, ditch this relationship and move on.
- If you get frustrated too much too often because your partner cannot appreciate or understand something you’ve done or a decision you made, then it is not worth investing any more time in this partnership…
- …which leads me to this: always have an exit clause on your partnership agreement. Not having one leaves the door wide open for legal conflicts in case stuff doesn’t work out.
- Always consult a lawyer before starting a partnership. NEVER do this alone. This will save you countless dollars and trouble down the road.
A partnership is like a marriage and remember, only fools rush in.
My Cari.net dedicated server is down..and so is cari.net!
Don’t want to be bitter but I am starting to get fed up with cari.net…The dedicated server I bought with Cari.net 2 weeks ago has been down on three occasions so far!!! that’s a lot… lucky I only use it as a dev environement at this point. Imagine if that was my production server.
What sucks the most is that I wasn’t contacted at any point regarding a scheduled/unforseen outage on all three occasions. The last one was just the worst of all, my servers has not been accessible for the pat 15 minutes?! so is cari.net anyways!
That without counting the fact that it takes me sometimes 10 seconds to open an ssh session (I have a 18Mbps connection at my home office)
Let’s hope these issues are addressed promptly and a valid explanation is provided! otherwise, my cari.net adventure will have to end right here.
PHPMailer and smtp on 1and1 shared hosting
I use phpMailer on my 1and1 shared hosting account. Recently, I could not send email anymore.
I tried debugging and this is the error that phpMailer throws:
Language string failed to load: connect_host
After googling for a solution and trying different smtp servers, accounts and smtp ports, I decided to switch to sendmail and it worked like a charm! All I needed to do was replace $mail->isSmtp() with:
$mail->isSendMail()
sendMail is located in its default location on 1and1 servers : /usr/sbin/sendmail, so no change of settings was required.
Conclusion: 1and1 probably closed its outgoing smtp ports on its shared hosting servers. Consequently, if you use PhpMailer, don’t use smtp mode anymore.
Getting Hover to work on IE7 with other tags than anchor
Before IE7, hover used to exclusively work with the anchor tag. On IE7, unless you make your HTML page follow a strict html4/xHTml1.0/1.1 dtd it will still not work… So you actually need to add this to the top of your html page:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd”>
a more detailed post regarding this is in:
http://www.bernzilla.com/item.php?id=762
Voila!
reading docx files using openoffice
Found this today… I tried using OpenOffice to open a docx file (which is a Microsoft xml format of their doc files) and this was of a great help. It basically tells you how to enable OpenOffice to support docx files. Pretty neat:
