Vista FIX: failed to format the selected partition. [Error: 0x80004005]
Okay, so I didn’t come up with this fix myself. I found it online after about an hour of tedious searching. If I can save anyone the trouble then I’d love to do so....
Category: Tutorials
Flash MMO Tutorials
I was looking for a bunch of these and surprisingly they were hard to find. Since I’d like to integrate a lot of Flash into WOS v2 I’ve decided to start there and then...
Connecting to a MySQL Database Using PHP
You would think this is really obvious but I see a TON of posts on devnetwork.net (great php/mysql site) where people include their database login/password in every page from a non-protected directory. Big no...
XAMPP: Learn PHP & MySQL Without Online Hosting!!
One of the questions I get most frequently is what I use to make my text-based games. My answer is always the same, PHP and MySQL. Let’s say you wanted to learn these languages,...
UDP Socket Programming
Okay, so I’m going over the deep end and I’m going to create a client/server setup in UDP (or TCP but i think dropped packets won’t be an issue) so I can get the...
Useful Allegro Functions
/*********** * Purpose: draw the buffer behind an image * Precondition: image to use * Postcondition: returns the image with the buffer behind it ***********/ BITMAP *blitBigger(BITMAP *image) { clear(buffer); //clear the buffer (or...
Learning PHP (Part 2)
In part 1, I talked about requirements for php, creating a file, variables, and if-else statements. Now on to harder concepts. Else-If Statements Before we covered the if-else statement. In an if-else statement if...
Learning PHP (Part 1)
When the Internet exploded in the .com age people were just starting to realize the potential of online programming languages. PHP, or Hypertext Preprocessing, is one of my favorite programming languages. One of the...
Apache FIX: Forbidden/You don’t have permission to access / on this server
Check the permissions of the folder. Usually its a chmod problem and you can change it to drwx–x–x. However another problem can be the conf/httpd.conf file. If you have an incorrect <Files > record...
Cpanel FIX: Error from domain wrapper: domain is owned by another user.
I got this error when I was trying to add subdomains to one of my cPanel accounts. This happens when cPanel doesn’t remove the subdomain correctly and then it thinks it’s still there so...
