The Local Wisdom Blog

We’re using postie on our wordpress to allow our users the ability to email in posts and edit content on our site.  Recently I noticed that when I sent images through our exchange server, it was stripping out the images and replacing them with winmail.dat.  5 minutes of searching the internet gave me an answer once again!  It seems that certain contacts in your exchange contact list will get data formatted specifically for outlook clients.  What causes the exchange server to make this assumption, I haven’t found out yet, but at least I was able to stop it from happening on our exchange server.

Here’s the summary of the solution

“We’ve sorted this out, this happens on domains that doesn’t know how to process winmail.dat.
We’re using Exchange 2007 and it happens only when we send emails to mail contacts on a specific mail domain. What we’ve done is in EMC, go to the properties of the mail contact and on the Genral tab on the “Use MAPI rich text format” option, choose “Never” instead of “use default settings”. That sorted it out!”

The whole original solution can be found here

if you try to use the app_offline.htm file, you’ll probably have very little code in it to show your “Site is down” message.  This causes an issue in IE as the “server returns a non HTTP-200 status code with less than 512 bytes of content, IE will not show the returned HTML and instead substitutes its own generic status code message”

Thus to fix it, you can put in more content to get the size of the file over 512 bytes as such:

<!–       
Adding additional hidden content so that IE Friendly Errors don’t prevent
this message from displaying (note: it will show a “friendly” 404
error if the content isn’t of a certain size).

Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!   
Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!
Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!
Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!
Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!   
Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!
Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!
Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!
Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!   
Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!
Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!
Local Wisdom is the best web company ever!!!

–>

This is just a comment which the user will never see, but will help you get over the 512 byte mark. 
I found this solution here (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/09/App_5F00_Offline.htm-and-working-around-the-_2200_IE-Friendly-Errors_2200_-feature.aspx), so a big shoutout to them for making it so easy to find!!!

Here’s the new trailer for the Facebook movie, The Social Network.

The director is David Fincher (Se7en & Fight Club). Aaron Sorkin (Sports Night, West Wing & Charlie Wilson’s War) is the screenwriter, and in my opinion, the guy can do no wrong. So I will be seeing The Social Network when it hits theaters in October.

Stay tuned for the sequel: The Social Network 2: Rise of Farmville

I’ve been looking for something like this for a while.

What the hashtag?!?! is a social encyclopedia for hashtags found on Twitter.

At the time of this post the site is tracking 14,329 hashtags for 5,099 users.

Although #LW is not listed and I’d really like to know what it means. Someone please tell me.

Happy hashtagging!

This one was interesting since there were so many answers out there that didn’t work   This is actually pretty easy, you open up the IIS 7 manager, go to the website you’d like to turn JS compression on for, in the menu you’ll see the MimeType icon, open that up:





When you open it up, look for the .js Mimetype as such:





And change the .js Mimetype to “text/javascript” as such:





It should take place immediately as it makes the change in your application’s web.config file for you under “System.Webserver”. BTW, just getting the JS files to compress does so much for the site speed!

Since I screwed up my screen protector, I did some research about how to properly apply one and this video came up with the source here.

Clark Kokich, CEO of Razorfish, one of the largest digital marketing and technology firms in the world just put up a blog post entitled Simple Math.

He talks about how digital agency fees are growing higher than the digital media spend.  As some customers see this trend as “wrong”. Kokich goes on to say that it’s perfectly fine and going back would be bad.

The world of digital marketing is changing. Its moving away from buying media on the traditional outlets and moving into owning media on your own outlet or earning media on online social outlets.

If a $500k social influence marketing program (all agency fees) performs as well as a $10-million paid media program (10% agency fees), who really is being penalized?  Answer: the media, not the client.  Instead of being challenged, agencies should be applauded for building and managing  owned media that delivers results at a fraction of the cost of paid media. – Clark Kokich

I’ve used this PSD a few times to get a quick “Site Down” up while we do maintenance or the site is just down due to servers going down.  I had to refer to it so everyone can make use of it.  Soh Tanaka shows how in a few short CSS lines and with his PSD you could get a nice looking Site Maintenance message up in a couple of minutes.  The PSD is available here and the CSS code you can find here.  Shoutout to Soh Tanaka!

Got a letter today about this and Shawn’s been wondering about how to check the data usage so here it is:

“Phone: Call 1-800-922-0204 or dial *611 from a Verizon Wireless handset.  Enter your broadband device mobile number (can be found at VZAccess Manager), then press 1 to hear your data usage.

Laptop: Use VZAccess Manager. click on Update Usage button to display estimated unbilled usage for the current month.

Online: verizonwireless.com/myaccount to access the account info, there you can also check usage numbers”

One last cool thing that they give you is access to their hotspots:

“Visit verizonwireless.com/wifi to access support for Verizon Wifi which is now included with your Mobile Broadband plan and alllows you to access thousands of hotspots at no additional charge”

Ran into this today when I logged into my google docs to update a spreadsheet.  Not bad for V1 I have to admit and Pinaki will have to see if it can replace Omnigraffle, but I doubt it   I logged in and made a quick workflow diagram to test it out, tell me what you think:

“About Google drawings