Written by Matrich on 30th January, 2009
Recently, I have been working with SharePoint and I started encountering a problem of both Internet Explorer 6 and 7 crashing whenever I would try to open an Office document in a SharePoint document library.
First, I thought that it was a problem with my IE 6 as I didn’t want to upgrade it for purposes of cross-browser testing. However, even after upgrading to IE 7, I was still getting the same problem which made me conclude that it must be a browser/SharePoint problem. Fortunately, it took me less than two minutes to fix. So what was the problem and how did I fix it?
Cause of the Problem
The problem of Internet Explorer crashing/stop responding is caused by having several different versions of Microsoft Office applications. In my case, I have one application of version 2003 and the rest as 2007.
Solution to the Problem
To solve the problem,
download the 2007 Office hotfix package (KB938888) package from the Microsoft Help and Support website.
For more details about this problem, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888
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Written by Matrich on 21st January, 2009
Many times, designers and developers are contacted by clients directly or indirectly to develop applications, websites, web applications, etc. and yet these clients have no idea of what they exactly want or even what they should expect after the project.
Surprisingly, most of them always ask for the costs which will be involved to complete the project. Of course, to a client, it is not a surprise but to a designer/developer, details of the project are needed to determine if he/she would like to take on the project and obviously to estimate the cost.
The Web Development Project Estimator is a good tool which a designer/developer can roughly use to estimate the cost to help you out with this complexity.
From the tool website,
The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.
To use, simply enter the title of the project and your default hourly rate. Then adjust your anticipated hours accordingly to generate your total project estimate. When finished, you can view your finalized estimate in a print-ready format in case you’d like to save a PDF or print a copy for your records.
Feel free to check it out and suggest any other tool or challenges you face as a developer/designer/consultant. The tool can be used for any other development sort of project you’ve got to estimate the total costs.
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Written by Matrich on 31st December, 2008
It is again the end of year 2008 and I am really grateful to God for His Mercy & Grace over my life. Every year seems to be incredibly more of a testimony having God do lots of great things in my life. I can’t say I am the rightest guy or I have everything I need but for sure, I have seen God move in my life and He has continuously shown Himself both in hard and easy times.
Among several things, it is in this year that I made a year or so of freelancing, travelled to the Netherlands for an academic tour which was terrific, completed all the three semesters of my MSc course, began off my research proposals and joined the biggest telecom in Uganda, MTN Uganda as Analyst Solutions Architecture. All this and many more, I attribute them to God, The Almighty for He is faithful and worthy.
As I await for the new year, so much is awaiting for me BUT I know ALL WILL BE WELL THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME.
Great thanks to all who have impacted my life including my dad, mum and family; friend George Appiah and many others for their tremendous support. May God richly bless you all.
To all my fans and well wishers, I wish you a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR and God Bless You All. Off to church… till next year
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Written by Matrich on 21st October, 2008
Netbeans IDE is one of the famous IDEs used by Java and other programmers and it is especially very good when you are creating graphical user interfaces (GUI) applications.
Lately, I have been working on a java project and I have been facing a problem with using Netbeans on my Microsoft Windows Vista to add external libraries to the project. Normally external libraries are packaged as .jar files.
Whenever I try to click the Add JAR/Folder button as on the screenshot above, instead of getting the Open File dialog, I was getting a java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error.
Source of the Problem
This is exception is mainly caused because of some incompatibilities issues of the JDK you are using and Microsoft Vista. To be more specific, the java file chooser dialog using WindowsLookAndFeel is incompatible with Ms. Windows Vista on any Java release less than 1.5.0_11 caused by some changes made by Microsoft in Ms. Windows Vista.
Solution to the Problem
To solve this problem,
- Update your JDK to JDK 6 and above
- Ensure that your Netbeans IDE uses the new updated JDK instead of the previous JDK which has been upgraded.
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Written by Matrich on 26th August, 2008
A few days ago, I wrote about Mozilla Firefox in Luganda and pretty much sure that most people have tried to install it but all in vain. Personally, I also tried it but I was missing an add-on to get it working. So for those who desperately wanted their Mozilla Firefox in Luganda or are interested in having it, you can have a smile on your face.
Today, on the i-network mailing list, Michael sent out instructions of how to complete the installation and they are as follows:
- Crosscheck that your Firefox browser is 3.0.1. In case not, click here to upgrade ( http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ ).
- Open this page (http://translate.org.za/). Within the subsection of NEWSFLASH, under the heading of “Kickstarting Firefox in Luganda” click on DOWNLOAD.
- A window entitled “Software Installation” will be activated. An xpi file will appear within the window. Just click on INSTALL NOW.
- You have now installed the Luganda add-on, but you will not be able to see the changes unless you install the language switcher. The language switcher will enable you to change between languages. Open this page and download the Locale Switcher 2.1 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/356).
- Re-start Firefox for all these changes to be seen.
- Go to Tools > Languages > Ganda to start using your new Luganda version of Mozilla.
- In case you want to switch back to English, go to Tools > Languages > English
However, note that this language pack is still in beta-version.
So what do you think about this beta version? Do you think localization of software, in general, will be of great help to the local people or not?
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Written by Matrich on 22nd August, 2008
We have just concluded an ICT Sensitization and Training Workshop for Headteachers of primary and secondary schools at Gayaza High School which was organized by SchoolNet Uganda. I was very privileged to attend this workshop and facilitate one of the sessions of how schools can take advantage of the web and the internet.
Overall, the workshop was a great success as over 100 headteachers attended the workshop and a lot of great sessions where held at the workshop.
In my session, I share about school websites from a user’s perspective and I tried to answer the common questions asked by people who are trying to get websites for their schools and what they should expect. I cover:
- What is a website?
- Why is it necessary for a school to have a website?
- What makes up a good school website?
- Why should a school have a good website not just a website?
- How to plan a good school website to meet your objectives?
- What does it take to have a website?
- Testimonies of having a website.
I have seen very many people, organizations, etc with websites or intending to have websites but these websites aren’t meeting the objectives they are met to achieve (of course, this is in my option). So even though websites are really crucial and critical for organizations, people etc.. how do we ensure that they are worth it and they are helping us to achieve our objectives of having a website? or are we just trying to follow the current trend that everyone, every organization should have a website?
I really hope to share the details of this presentation sometime to come however, in a more general perspective of having a website rather than just school websites. So don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feeds or to keep checking my website/blog for details of these series.
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