Peter Törnstrand

Back in april I bough a MacBook to use at home and in the office. I installed Windows Vista X64 via BootCamp to use mostly at work (I do some programing in Visual Studio). I read about the many problems with drivers and was a bit anxious but to my surprise everything except the audio worked. I spent some time trying to resolve the issue, trying all kinds of different driver. Microsoft High Definition Audio (default driver choosen by Vista), Sigmatel and Realtek. None worked. I finally gave up and decided I didn’t need audio support while working in Vista.

Some time went by and I soon realized I really did need audio support. Not so much for the work I do but for listening to music while doing it. So I gave it another try and now I actually got it working. Since my last attempt it seems new versions of the Realtek drivers must have been released and it installed with any fuzz.

So now I’m writing this post so that others in the same situation might find a solution to their Vista X64 audio problems as well. The drivers that finally worked was Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs R1.94 Vista.

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There’s a lot more to localizing a web site then just replacing strings with diffrent languages (for an exelent introduction read the ZF documentation on Zend_Locale). But in this post I will talk about string localization, and especially string localization using gettext and .mo-files with Zend Framework.

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Ran into a strange bug today while trying to make an anchor link inside a user control i ASP.NET. The obvious way to do it would be to just to put the anchor ID inside the NavigateUrl attribute of the HyperLink control like NavigateUrl=”#anchor”. That however resulted in the link and anchor pointing to the directory where the user control was located.

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Believe it or not but from time to time I actually get to do some programing with classical ASP, you know that stoneage technology that came before the .NET framework. Back in the days the concept of using classes was beyond me so when I got the chance the other day to do some ASP coding I decided to do it the OOP way.

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Using transparent PNG background images is pretty standard these days with shadows and fading backgrounds on almost every site. PNG backgrounds even works with IE6 although it’s implementation is kind of buggy. In order to use it on IE6 you have to use the IE6 filter rule, as shown below.

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Ran into some trouble the other day while emigrating a PHP solution from our development server to the production server. The application was working fine on the development server but once moved to the production server it started to behave strangely.

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