August 25th, 2008

Mashable Summer Event Boston

Myself and the rest of the CampusLIVE staff attended the Mashable.com Summer event in Boston and met some pretty cool people. We came away with 3 or 4 great connections there, a great return for the time and money.

While there I was interviewed by the guys at Mashable / Stickam. Here’s the video.

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August 8th, 2008

Using htaccess to remove / redirect a folder in a url

At CampusLIVE, we completely overhauled our codebase which resulted in all of our urls in Google to incorrectly go to our homepage. Here’s an example along with the solution

The Goal
The goal was to redirect any request to CampusLIVE.com/home/(anything) to CampusLIVE.com/(anything) so that all links in Google would work again.

Example of Old Url
http://www.campuslive.com/home/umass/restaurants

Example of New Url
http://www.campuslive.com/umass/restaurants

The Solution
Open up you .htaccess file in any text editor. My code can be substituted to work with your domain/folders.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^home/(.*)$ http://www.campuslive.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Summary

The above code will successfully redirect permanently any requested to /home/(anything) to /(anything).By using the 301 redirect, you are telling the search engines to permanently use the new address.

Published in: Questions Answered, Web Development


August 6th, 2008

How to disable clicking sound in Internet Exlplorer

At CampusLIVE we just begain using PhpLiveSupport to further engage our users. The Windows tray app that comes with it allows us to monitor chat requests right from the tray which is nice. The only downside is the annoying clicking sound that IE makes everytime the traffic monitor loads. Since I can’t figure out how to switch it to use FireFox, I’ve silenced it for the meantime.

Disabling Internet Explorer Sounds – Windows XP/NT/Server 2003

Open the Start Menu -> Settings -> Control Panel.

Open “Sounds” control panel. In this control panel, Scroll down in the events window until you reach “Windows Explorer” and under this you will find “Start Navigation.”

Click on “Start Navigation” and you will see a .wav file appear in the “Name:” box.

In the “Name:” drop down menu, select (None) and then hit “OK”. This will set no sound to be played when you’re navigating on the web.

Internet Explorer Sounds

Solution via Everything2.com

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