Archive for January, 2008

Something better than CoComment?

I’ve been using CoComment to keep track of comments on other people’s blogs for about a year now, and I really like it. The interface they have on their web page is fairly slick and the fact that I don’t have to do anything extra to keep track of the comments makes it easy.
But [...]

5 Tips For Picking a Forum Topic

So you’re ready to start up a new forum, but have no idea for what the topic needs to be. Here are 5 tips for selecting a topic.
1 - What are your interests?

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Inserting AddThis.com widget in Simple Machines Forum

After finding the AddThis.com bookmarking widget and installing the WordPress plugin here I decided I needed to add the widget to my photography forum.
What I wanted to make sure would happen is that if a visitor bookmarks a page they bookmark the first page in the thread instead of bookmarking a later page in a [...]

8 Reasons NOT to start a forum

There are thousands and thousands of web forums out there. My guess is that if you’re reading this you’re at least thinking of starting one if you haven’t already. We hear about the reasons to start a forum (fun, branding, marketing, etc) but it’s difficult to find information on why you shouldn’t start a [...]

IIS Error Message - “The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers”

A user of one of my web applications reported that he was getting the error “The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers” after logging in.
After spending several hours Googling for answers I logged in and went to work with the intent of trying each of the few dozen [...]