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Friendly HTTP Errors Are Not

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Debugging ASP pages? Then friendly HTTP errors will drive you mad.
Friendly errors will show you something like HTTP error 500 - server error, instead of Active Server Pages error ‘ASP 0126′ Include file not found. Needless to say, the latter is much more helpful.
This is easy to turn off within IEs advanced [...]

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Using WINDIFF to compare 2 directories

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Have you ever copied the contents of a folder and the operation erred out midway because of a permission conflict or corrupt file? How do you determine which files are in the new location, so you can restart the copy operation? File-by-file comparison can be difficult if you’re dealing with a large number of files.
The [...]

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