Category Archives: Work

ActiveSync errors

I started the morning with this - Critical Errors in the Event Logs: 150. At least they were all the same error:
Unexpected Exchange mailbox Server error: Server: [server.local] User: [user@domain.com] HTTP status code: [422]. Verify that the Exchange mailbox Server is working correctly.
So after ~1 hour of searching I find at least  5 solutions including [...]

I hate printers

The culprit: HP Officejet 5610
The offense: Refusing to print PNG images
The printer is connected by USB. I’ve reset the printer multiple times. I’ve replaced the drivers multiple times. I try to print a PNG image (color) and it comes out.. blank? I can print the same exact image to any network printer in the office [...]

drupal secure pages ssl

A while back I put up a hack to require SSL on some Drupal pages by adding a block that checked for SSL and if it wasn’t present redirected the person to https. That was a bad solution and could of been done better with htaccess.
This solution on the other hand is great. http://drupal.org/project/securepages
If you [...]

Text Processing with Python

I do a lot of easy text parsing at work, typically stripping out relevant information to a CSV. What I do is far simpler than whats covered in the link below but it’s been very useful the last hour or so.
http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/

Coworking in Lacey Olympia

WFB is opening a Coworking facility downstairs: location. It’s been a fun project which I’ve watched from initial design to near completion. I didn’t have much input in the beginning of the project but I get to help decide what kind of neat stuff goes in afterwards. Rolling LCD TVs to replace Projectors, white boards, [...]

Drupal 6.0 Release

I’ve been using Drupal extensively for the past 9 months. The speed at which these guys crank out updates is amazing. Their security mailing list is also top notch, there’s usually a constant stream of alerts but I only remember 1 or 2 core (Drupal default) exploits since I signed up. Now I wait and [...]

Drupal file size upload problems

Last month I asked our host to increase “upload_max_filesize” and “post_max_size” to 10MB. They updated the settings which I confirmed in phpinfo() but I continued to see this error:

So I played with .htaccess files for a while, and gave up for about a week till I had some extra time today to spend with [...]

Drupal https login redirect

I launched the WFB Drupal site without a secure certificate on it so all our staff have the non secure “user/login” page bookmarked. Here’s a quick fix to get the login page redirected to https.

Site Building > Blocks > Add Block

Give it a meaningful description, and change the Input Format to “PHP Code” then paste [...]

Changing drupal content type

I was optimistic about the amount of news that was going to be posted on the WFB website so I setup an extra content type specifically for news that was important enough to go on the site but not front-page worthy. Turned out that for the most part this content was overlapping with the [...]