If you’re thinking about creating a commercial for your software and want a good example of how not to do it, take a look at the following video. Its hard to believe that someone actually paid to produce this, but it must have seemed like a good idea at the time.

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I remember back when VCR’s were common, a device could be purchased for it that would prevent commercials from being recorded to your tape. It operated on the principle that commercial advertising was louder than the program you were recording. When the volume increased, the VCR stopped recording until the volume went back to normal. [...]

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PHP has been steadily growing in usage since the start of the millennium. It has overtaken Perl as the primary programming language for web applications and will likely dominate this area for many years to come. The language is becoming increasingly common in the corporate world in spite of the initial suspicion many had over [...]

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I found another problem with Fireboard. After I installed it, I went to the Forum Administration option in the Fireboard Control Panel and got the following error: — DB function failed with error number 1054 Unknown column ‘g.group_id’ in ‘on clause’ SQL=SELECT a.*, a.name AS category, u.name AS editor, g.name AS groupname, h.name AS admingroup [...]

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Fireboard is a forum application that integrates with Joomla. It works without any problems in Joomla 1.0, but when you try installing it in 1.5, you get the following error (the folders may be different on your installation): — Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 58368 bytes) in /var/www/joomla15/libraries/joomla/installer/adapters/component.php [...]

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