Did you get that error while working with ASP.NET 2.0? Something about aspnetdb.mdf or something? Here’s the solution:

(I’m assuming you’re on Windows XP)

1) Open up My Computer or any folder in Windows Explorer.
2) Go Tools -> Folder Options
3) Select the View Tab
4) Scroll down to the bottom and un-check the box that says ‘Use simple file sharing (Recommended)’ - it’s recommended to be checked for your grandma, not a ASP.NET developer like yourself.
5) Go to your website in Windows Explorer, probably C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/yourVirtualDirectory
6) Copy all the files and directories there to some other place, like your desktop.
7) Delete all the files in that directory/website. If it says not allowed, it’s because some process is accessing the file. Try shutting down the website, closing any windows you have open, and as a last resort restart your computer.
9) Delete the virtual directory/website in IIS, and then recreate it, giving it the same permissions - read, write, script, whatever.
8) Cut all the files you copied before you deleted them, and put them back in that directory.
9) View the physical directory in windows explorer, probably in C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/
10) Right click on it, select ‘properties’ and then select the security tab. Add the IUSR and ASPNET users and give them write access. If you don’t know what those users look like, check one of your other applications/virtual directories/websites, by selecting the properties window and clicking on the security tab and seeing what users have access.
11) Rebuild and view site. It should work now.

If you’re like me you probably just copy and paste the error in Google Search and now you’ve found this site and you’re pissed and maybe you’ve spent an hour or two searching and you still haven’t figured it out.

You’re probably ready to never use ASP.NET again.

You’ve probably already been to this site, and this one, and they didn’t help. Maybe you also hit up some forums like this one.

They probably said something like ‘change security settings’ and you’re running around the properties window for your files and directories finding nothing.

Hopefully my steps have helped. If not, good luck with your search.

I have ever encountered. It is written terribly, there are tons of spelling mistakes in the example code.

The official list of corrections names only seven errors, but I have found that many in just one example. Every chapter is populated with them. Some of them are just really sloppy like extra quotes in strings and who knows what. If you type the code in examples as is, often it wont compile. I have spent hours debugging code in the book. The CD comes with example code (first of all, it doesn’t even install to where the book says it will install), but that code is the finished code, and yes it works, but you don’t get the step by step from it.

It’s just very poorly done, and the writer should really never write another programming book again. Had I been smart and read it got on Amazon.com, maybe I would have bought a Wrox book instead.

If you opened up Firefox 2 today and already have Web Developer installed, you will probably have been greeted with a pop up saying an update is available. Chris Pedrick’s tool is a must have for any serious web developer.

My favorite new change:

You can remove the text and have icons only! Yay! Maybe it isn’t new, I honestly haven’t played with the options much, but this update has inspired me to try it out. You can also move buttons from the Web Developer toolbar and move them onto other places on Firefox’s chrome using the ‘customize’ feature in Firefox. That is you can modify and move the icons and buttons for Web Developer like you can standard Firefox icons and buttons that come with the browser such as ‘home’ and ‘print’. This is a great feature. If you take a look at that screenshot up there (click on it) you’ll see that I use the Google Toolbar but that I don’t have the toolbar enabled. Instead I have moved the features I use the most often from the toolbar to the browser’s menu bar and I get to save valuable screen real estate. I can do this with Web Developer too! More space for content! Yay! Let’s celebrate. Parteeh. I like to give a shout out to all my peeps at code4lib and netlamers who supported me through the writing of this article. And also pour some of your 40 on the ground for all those dogs who can’t be here this night because they’re busy chasing bad pointers, troubleshooting errand non-blocking error states, or busy making sure some student can find obscure documents ten institutions away that they’ll never need. kkggkthxbi

I have been learning Python for a few weeks now and here is a list of some essential links and tutorials for beginners. You would probably find these just by poking around Python’s site and Googling, but I thought they were helpful so some linkage is in order.

Dive Into Python
Python Tutorial
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
Learn to Program
Python Types and Objects
Python 2.4 Quick Reference (latest version is 2.5, but in Ubuntu the default in the repositories is 2.4 - you can get it by looking for python2.5 - there’s a big difference between the two).
Python Frequently Asked Questions
Python Library Reference
Python Reference Manual
Python SOAP Libraries
Python Style Guide
Python Unicode Tutorial
Python Regular Expression HOWTO
Selected Python Articles
Python Database Topic Guide
Python Cookbook

I hope these links will help you as much as they helped me.

JavaScript closures allow your anonymous functions to remember variables they ‘knew’ within the function scope they were created in. Closures are a powerful tool that are a must have for any large JavaScript application or project.

I’m creating a new version of my ColorTool. Last time I used Flash ActionScript + PHP, this time I’m going to use AJAX. I have found that knowing about closures is incredibly useful. I think anyone doing a lot of work with JavaScript can benefit from knowing about them.

Everyone’s been talking about recently, the free website creator from Google, and even I have a page I’ve been playing around with: I call it . But I’ve found something very similiar and very interesting: infogami. It’s a free webpage creator. You simply enter a subdomain in the provided box, provide an email (a working one if you want to keep your page - you can create and play with the site without confirming the email), and there you are!

A great thing about infogami is that you can allow anyone to edit your site! Which makes it sort of a wiki.

Check out mine: Share Wonders at infogami.

It comes with a blog too. There’s no option to comment but there is a feed. Maybe comments will be added later. infogami is not even a beta yet, apparently.

Oh, they have a developer blog.

The format used for editing pages is not HTML, it’s something called Markdown. You can play with a Markdown sandbox if you like.

If you use Google Talk or Wikipedia at all you may be familiar with this type of text formatting and markup code:

*italic* **bold**
_italic_ __bold__

This is a link to Share Wonders
[Share Wonders](https://sharewonders.com/ "Share Wonders")

Very nice. I expect to hear more about infogami soon.