Really .. they don’t. No one should every be allowed to “generate,” and I use that term so loosely, a website from what they create in Dreamweaver. Two of my friends and I have spent nearly 2 days fixing 5 pages that were “generated” by Dreamweaver. Has any one ever looked at the crap HTML it generates??? It’s absolutely nuts. The cramming of all the style sheets in to anonymous names and stuffed at the top of each HTML is beyond ridiculous. And don’t even get me started on the static layout of all the pages it trys to render by default. I took at page that was “generated” by Dreamweaver and ran it though the W3C Markup Validation Service … 138 errors. And not hard to catch errors … they obvious really stupid errors. Missing tags, improper style declarations, style declarations to absolutely nothing on the page; the list goes on.

So moral of the story … don’t let anyone use Dreamweaver to PRODUCE the live version of a website. Build it in a REAL editor like Notepad, Vim, The Programmer’s Notepad, or TextMate. Hell, build it in Visual Studio’s text editor … just don’t trust some bloated, crappy tool to produce something functional for you.

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Posted by Wyatt on 11 December 2008 at 12:47 am under Rants, Technology.
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OK, so this went painfully … very painfully. Let me reiterate … I flipping HATE H-Sphere and refused to pay $70+ for a service incident that shouldn’t happen because their crew didn’t do their homework with testing and didn’t provide a “here’s what to do if things go wrong” section.

Followed the instructions here.

Did a cpupdate and received this error:

> Temporary directory = [ /var/hsphere/update/U31.0.18078 ]
> Current directory === [ /root ]
> Extracting …
=================================================================
+ UPDATE TO U31.0 2008-06-28.12:03
=================================================================
/var/hsphere/update/U31.0.18078
+ Executing …
########################################
=================================================================
+ COMMAND=’cpupdate’
=================================================================

__ Update physical boxes.
|
|– Current CP version: 3.0.828
|– Current CP Postgres version: 7.4.19.
|
|– Update of CP box started.
| |– Install local package updater.
| |– Update cp box related software.
| | |– Sat Jun 28 12:03:27 EDT 2008
| | |– Downloading pkglist (64.131.90.141).
| | | |– 100% 88,482 –.–K/s
| | | `– Downloaded pkglist.
| | |– Downloading subpkglist (64.131.90.141).
| | | |– 100% 4,700 –.–K/s
| | | `– Downloaded subpkglist.
| | |
| | |– Identifying required packages.
| | |– OS: CentOS release 4.6 (Final).
| | |– Perl version: 5.8.5.
| | |– CP Postgres version: 7.4.19.
| | |– Downloading hsphere-info-1-14.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | |– 100% 93,483 334.84K/s
| | | `– Downloaded hsphere-info-1-14.rpm.
| | |– Installing hsphere-info-1-14 package.
| | | |– Checked system configuration files.
| | | |– Formed ips and interface files.
| | | |– Additional MANPATH entries checked.
| | | |– TimeZone files checked.
| | | |– H-Sphere related cron tasks added.
| | |– Downloading hsphere-utils-1-8.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | |– 100% 2,163,621 3.48M/s
| | | `– Downloaded hsphere-utils-1-8.rpm.
| | |– Installing hsphere-utils-1-8 package.
| | | `–Installing hsphere-utils-1-8 package.
| | |
| | |– Check whether logical servers are completely configured.
| | | |– List of identified logical servers: dns, cp.
| | | `– Check whether logical servers are completely configured.
| | |
| | |– Check required system packages.
| | | `– Check required system packages.
| | |
| | |– Check/download pre-install hsphere core package list.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p14-1.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 131,287 –.–K/s
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p14-1.rpm.
| | | |– hsphere-script-runner-1-10.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-oscommerce-2.2ms2-3.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-phpBB-2.0.22-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-jdk-1.5.0-13.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.1-904.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 24,017,794 2.10M/s ETA 00:00
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.1-904.rpm.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-jakarta-6.0.14-0.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 4,794,818 4.46M/s
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-jakarta-6.0.14-0.rpm.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-cpanel-apache2-2.2.8-2.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 2,107,508 2.75M/s
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-cpanel-apache2-2.2.8-2.rpm.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-core-3.1-904.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 12,229,070 3.62M/s ETA 00:00
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-core-3.1-904.rpm.
| | | |– hsphere-aspell-0.60.3-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-oscommerce-2.2ms2-3.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-phpBB-2.0.22-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– postgresql-libs-7.4.19-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– postgresql-7.4.19-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– postgresql-server-7.4.19-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– postgresql-contrib-7.4.19-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-5.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 10,185 –.–K/s
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-5.rpm.
| | | |– hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p14-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-script-runner-1-10.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | `– Check/download pre-install hsphere core package list.
| | |
| | |– Check presence of the deprecated hsphere packages.
| | | `– Check presence of the deprecated hsphere packages.
| | |
| | |– Deleting deprecated hsphere packages.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-apache-1.3.37-6 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-apache-1.3.37-6 package deleted.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-cpanel-apache-1.3.41-1 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-cpanel-apache-1.3.41-1 package deleted.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-php4-4.4.4-2 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-php4-4.4.4-2 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-php4-plugins-4.4.4-2 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-php4-plugins-4.4.4-2 package deleted.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-php5-5.2.0-1 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-php5-5.2.0-1 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-php5-plugins-5.2.0-1 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-php5-plugins-5.2.0-1 package deleted.
| | | `– Deleting deprecated hsphere packages.
| | |
| | |– Check/Installing pre-install hsphere core package list.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p6-1 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p6-1 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Installing hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p14-1 package.
| | | | `–Installing hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p14-1 package.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.0-828 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.0-828 package deleted.
| | | |– Installing hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.1-904 package.
| | | | |– removing redundant jar files
| | | | `–Installing hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.1-904 package.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-jakarta-5.5.16-0 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-jakarta-5.5.16-0 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Installing hsphere-jakarta-6.0.14-0 package.
| | | | |– Existing cpanel user changed.
| | | | |– *** Conversion has not been done. ***
| | | | `–Installing hsphere-jakarta-6.0.14-0 package.
| | | |– Installing hsphere-cpanel-apache2-2.2.8-2 package.
| | | | |– Temporary certificate assigned self-signed CA Certificate created.
| | | | |– Cpanel apache started.
| | | | `– hsphere-cpanel-apache2-2.2.8-2 package installed.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-core-3.0-828 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-core-3.0-828 package deleted.
| | | |– Installing hsphere-core-3.1-904 package.
| | | | |– Existing cpanel user changed.
| | | | |– Existing cpanel user changed.
| | | | `–Installing hsphere-core-3.1-904 package.
| | | |– Deleting postgresql-libs-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package.
| | | | `– postgresql-libs-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Deleting postgresql-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package.
| | | | `– postgresql-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Deleting postgresql-server-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package.
| | | | `– postgresql-server-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Deleting postgresql-contrib-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package.
| | | | `– postgresql-contrib-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package deleted.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-4 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-4 package deleted.
| | | |– Installing hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-5 package.
| | | | |– **** Can not find startup file.
| | | | `– hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-5 package installed.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p6-1 package.
| | | | `– *** hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p6-1 package deletion error! For more details see /hsphere/pkg/updates/U31.0//U31.0/update_28.06.08_12_03.log file (209.173.159.100) ***
| | |
| | |– Sat Jun 28 12:07:21 EDT 2008 (update time: 3 min, 54 sec)
| | `– *** Update cp box related software problems ***.
=================================================================
+ COMMAND=’cpupdate’
=================================================================

__ Update physical boxes.
|
|– Current CP version: 3.1.904
`– *** CP Postgres version: authentication access problem! ***
=================================================================
+ COMMAND=’x’
=================================================================
+ Cleaning …
+ Finished

Well, that didn’t work, so lets just try it again:

=================================================================
+ COMMAND=’cpupdate’
=================================================================

__ Update physical boxes.
|
|– Current CP version: 3.1.904
`– *** CP Postgres version: authentication access problem! ***
=================================================================
+ COMMAND=’x’
=================================================================
+ Cleaning …
+ Finished

Unfortunately, searching the Internet and H-Sphere’s site turned up nothing helpful on the issue except this thread … which didn’t match my situation and didn’t have anything in it except telling me to buy a new support request.

So since I refuse to pay for something I’ve already paid for, here’s the solution to fix it for the rest of you:

rpm -qa |grep postgresql |xargs rpm -e –nodeps
rpm -Uvh /hsphere/pkg/postgresql*19*.rpm
rpm -Uvh –force /hsphere/pkg/hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-5.rpm

Then back into the H-Sphere updater:

sh /hsphere/U31.0
cpupdate

And the peasants rejoice … until they try to SSH in. The stupid jaild package that’s provided is busted in so may ways. The easiest solution is to just edit /etc/passwd to a real shell location; however, you’ll give up security to make this happen so I’ll leave the choice to you.

Update 07/12/2008:
Fixed the jaild issue. Apparently, when you do the update, if ANY user is logged in and has an actively running process (yes, I tried it multiple ways) … the jail setup fails oddly and doesn’t allow ANY user to log into the system. The solution? Boot all the users off the box:

/etc/init.d/sshd stop
killall sshd

Reconfig the jaild:

/hsphere/local/config/jail/scripts/config_jail

H-sphere’s attempt here

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Posted by Wyatt on 28 June 2008 at 12:17 pm under Rants.
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I don’t usually like to just copy and paste from other people’s sites; however, I think I’ll make an exception for this one given what I’ve been working on recently. At work, I’ve volunteered to write a process improvement for the design and development of web-based user interfaces and I have to say, this sums it up quite appropriately.

Originally from Tapestry Central
Or: Why I hate web stuff

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Posted by Wyatt on 6 June 2008 at 6:24 pm under Rants.
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Today, I spent 2-hours trying to figure out the correct way to implement an AJAX based call with the wonderful Calendar Date Select plugin. Now I’m sure it’s totally my fault for being a Rails noob, but I couldn’t come up with squat on Google for how to use this plugin with an server side AJAX call. So here’s my write up on how to do it using remote_function.
Continue reading ‘Rails With Calendar Date Select’ »

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Posted by Wyatt on 29 March 2008 at 6:17 pm under Technology.
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