Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Firefox 3, Release Candidate 1

So far, I like it. Before I installed it, I uninstalled all of my other Firefox installations. Both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3, beta 5 were unstable, but I think part of it is my fault for having them both installed.

I am, however, having trouble with certificates on one of our development we sites. With version 2, it would let me 'allow' the site, but with 3, it blocks me entirely.


Monday, May 12, 2008

tikiwiki on Oracle -- part 13.5

This is a bunch of garbage. They say you can install TikiWiki on Oracle, but I don't see how their install scripts have ever run. They use reserved words extensively as column names, and a bunch of syntax that isn't even supported.

I've been searching for other wikis that will install on Oracle (without re-writing the dumb thing) and so far, not much luck.

Here's the deal. Why is oracle hosting their wiki on wetpaint.com? Kinda makes me think that there is not a very good fit of 'Oracle' products to do the job.

tikiwiki on Oracle -- part 13

Just got back from vacation and started playing with this again. I've been having PHP trouble. When I uninstalled EasyPHP, it didn't clean up the registry correctly and so PHP scripts weren't running right. It also left registry entries for the old version of Apache, even though it had been uninstalled.

I also had problems with the database setup scripts. I had to strip them of the ' " ' character, as it was loading all object names with ' " ' at the front and back.

So, I dropped the user, cleaned out the EasyPHP stuff that I can find, re-installed the database objects, and have uninstalled everything else.

Here we go....