Category Archives: Code

How to Define HTML5 DOCTYPE for IE

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Is Internet Explorer not recognizing your <footer> tag?

I ran into the same issue.

Solution:

To ensure browser recognition of the most common HTML5 tags, you need to declare to the HTML5 DOCTYPE in you code. To do so add the below DOCTYPE just before your <html> tag.

<!DOCTYPE html>

A simple adjustment that may keep you from banging your head in Internet Explorer 9.

Solution to MySQL error #2006 in XAMPP

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I recently ran into the MySQL error #2006 when importing a MySQL database into XAMPP for testing locally.

Error 2006: MySQL Server has gone away.

My research led me to understand this error occurs when your MySQL connection times out while waiting for a response.

After a few Google queries I found the solution for my MySQL error #2006 to be in editing the my.ini for MySQL in XAMPP.

Steps for MySQL error 2006 solution:

  • Edit the “my.ini” file found at “:\xampp\mysql\bin\”.
  • In the my.ini file, edit the “max_allowed_packet” by increasing the value.
    • XAMPP default value is 1M. I updated it to 10M.
  • Save the my.ini file.
  • Restart your MySQL and Apache server in XAMPP.

This solution worked for me. Hopefully it may helped another soul stumped by a pesky 2006 MySQL error code in their local XAMPP environment.

How to Block Pinterest

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How can I block Pinterest from pinning my images?

Block Pinterest? Inconceivable, right? Well maybe not exactly true. Pinterest can be a great source of referral traffic and interest to your site, but it could be pretty intrusive to a copyright or imagery that you may not want in the “Pinned” community.

So if you are a user that would like to block Pinterest from pinning images from your website you can add the following meta tag to your header: (more…)