Mike DelGaudio

I am a big ol fan of the text mate clone for windows known simply as “e”

However, when I tried to start it up today, it would hang when opening the recently used documents. I love this feature where E simply opens all the document that were open when you last closed the app. Handy!

Bust since the progress bar is a modal dialog box when the program opend, you are in deep doo-doo if something happens that causes e to lock up when trying to open those documents upon starup.

Apparently this can happen if you happen to BSOD while e is open (even if e is not the culprit.

Here is how to fix it.

Go to c:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\Application Data\e\

and delete e.db (if you are nervous about this, rename it to something like “e-CORRUPT.db”

Restart e.

E should start back up in it;s plain vanilla configuration.

Good luck!

I recently touched something on my blackberry and from that point on, it would only type in Arabic characters. Very confusing.

Here is how to fix it.

First, it appears that the keyboard “shortcut” I touched to make this start happening was ALT+ENTER, the first and last keys on the the third row down from the top on the keyboard. Apparently, that default is on for the 8X00 model Blackberries.

Get back to English characters.
To get back to the English characters, go to Options (the ‘wrench’ icon) then Language, then select “English (United States)” — or whatever is appropriate for you.

To turn off the shortcut:
Next, go to the bottom of that screen and change “Use Input Language Shortcut” to “No”.

You should be back in business.

Hope this helps!

I do a fair amount of development work on my laptop using XAMPP. I must admint that I have not read the documentation as thoroughly as I should, so I was very pleased when I found Chris Meller’s post on turning on CURL for XAMPP.

Simply remember that the only PHP.ini file that really matters is the one found in /apache/bin/php.ini.

After you edit the file, restart the Apache server, and you are on your way.