Archive for the ‘Troubleshooting’ Category

Finally Found a solution to the following Error Message when inserting a new Row into a worksheet:

Expected response code 200, got 400 We’re sorry, a server error occurred. Please wait a bit and try again.

The Fix: Your column header values must be lower case, they can’t be Capitalized!

so this: array("Name"=>"YOURNAME", "Email"=>"youremail@fakeemail.com");

Must be converted to resemble:

array("name"=>"YOURNAME", "email"=>"youremail@fakeemail.com");

I hope this helps. Took me a day of researching to find this fix.

h/t: http://www.ayasoftware.com/content/magento-how-work-google-spreadsheets

Excel Running Slowly after Windows Update (MS11-021 Office File Validation Add-in)

If you are running Excel 2003 on Win XP/7 and attempt to open workbooks across a network, you may be experiencing a pretty dramatic lag in file openning.

If so, the bug is outlined on the Microsoft website here: See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2570623

Fixes can be found here (h/t to steveit.ca for finding these)

http://steveit.ca/2011/07/14/excel-2003-files-slow-to-open-after-windows-update/

http://pariswells.com/blog/tag/windows-xp-excel-2003-slow-opening

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/146154-ms-excel-hanging-when-opening-a-file-after-recent-ms-security-updates (discussion thread)

This is actually a windows shell extension for changing file extensions in groups.

This just saved me about an hour, and an aggravating hour at that!

Big shout out to T800 Productions, thanks for the app!

One of our web development workstations completely stopped uploading this morning, causing us to spend several hours troubleshooting. Download speeds upwards of 20MBPS, upload… Nothing.
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We build websites for business in Connecticut and many other locations. A recently launched website has started to get form spam, which is an unfortunate fact of life if you want to make it easy for visitors to fill in forms (i.e. no CAPTCHA). Seeing it come in, (Yes, we monitor our forms for spam so business owners can be alerted to activity and what it means), I alerted the owner that this was just spam and could be ignored. A bot had spammed his form and it was not a particularly concerning event.
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I believe I am spending about $2 per click with Google but some of the site is a little confusing and it seems that I might be wasting my money … Is there a good source of information to help learn setting up adwords that you would suggest?

Here’s a couple of sets of results:

adwords+setup+guide+”best+practices”

adwords+setup+guide+”quality+score”

Pay the most attention to google forums and webpages for learning how to navigate the platform.

One of the great downsides to outsourcing business services is that once in a while, you totally lose a customer, and sometimes that customer takes the time to tell others why. Here I am! Read the rest of this entry »

To be fair, my previous cpu fan didn’t actually fail, the assembly attaching it to the heatsink fell apart, toothlessly refusing to remain in place despite several stern warnings.
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