If you’re using the command line, this is how to get around errors like these:
Fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
R access for yoursite.phpfog.com DENIED to

PHPFOG unwisely does not tell users about this small distinction in the hostname and their server name. This is especially a problem when using the multiple SSH keys setup they recommend in the support pages.

To clone a repos, beware that phpfog is the servername you connect to (the one with git01 on the front) and your servername (the one at the end of this command below) is phpfogAPP. I kept getting this wrong because they should have either alerted me to this, or not made the damn things so similar, like start it with something else.

git clone git @ git01.phpfog.com : yoursite.phpfogapp.com (don’t leave in the spaces, I did this for readability)

be sure to type it correctly, that was my problem. I also had the further abstraction of listing all my rsa keys in the ~/.ssh/config file on the mac, so it was harder to troubleshoot, since my 2 hostnames were not in the same declaration, the config file finds the right rsa id based on the servername alias you enter in the git clone command.

Let me know if you have trouble and I will see if I can help! Enjoy!

You’ll need jquery included on your page already (in the head tag). This code uses the latest JQuery 1.6.1 from Google’s CDN (Content Delivery Network) but you can use your own local copy instead if you wish.

 
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

After this, you simply need to decide what links will trigger this, to load pages faster, and the content block the new page should be inserted into.

If you’re doing all a tags (all links everywhere on your site, without scrutiny, here is the code for that (put this in the head tag, after you include jquery):

 
<script type="text/javascript">
     $(document).ready(function(){
          $('a').pjax('pjaxtarget');
     });
</script>

And finally, make sure the div or other block element (li, span, etc.) is in your page, so the PJAX can insert the page content.

 
<div id="pjaxtarget">
     <!--the inserted content will be put here and wipe out anything that is already here-->
</div>

Done right, all your links should load super fast, as it only grabs the parts that are dynamic and leave the other elements alone, without loading them.

Put this code in your main header or template file, before EVERYTHING, even doctype.

<?php
function print_gzipped_page() {
 
    global $HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING;
    if( headers_sent() ){
        $encoding = false;
    }elseif( strpos($HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING, 'x-gzip') !== false ){
        $encoding = 'x-gzip';
    }elseif( strpos($HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING,'gzip') !== false ){
        $encoding = 'gzip';
    }else{
        $encoding = false;
    }
 
    if( $encoding ){
        $contents = ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();
        header('Content-Encoding: '.$encoding);
        print("\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00");
        $size = strlen($contents);
        $contents = gzcompress($contents, 9);
        $contents = substr($contents, 0, $size);
        print($contents);
        exit();
    }else{
        ob_end_flush();
        exit();
    }
}
 
ob_start();
ob_implicit_flush(0);
?>

Then put this after everything, at the very end of your page.

<?php print_gzipped_page(); ?>

Example:
blah.com/web.config <= Parent file
blah.com/child/web.config <= child file

Add this code around your section IN YOUR PARENT web.config.

<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
     <system.web>
         ...whole bunch of other stuff is here already (most likely)
     </system.web>
</location>

This will make the parent ignore the child, and not try to handle it and mess with it. Boy don’t you wish you had a parental mute button and cease and desist they couldn’t remove as a kid? That would be nice.

WP GeoLocation JS Plugin

This plugin uses “the MaxMind GeoIP Javascript Web Service to return the Country, Region, City, Latitude, and Longitude for your web visitors…” (from the plugin’s description on WordPress.org.

It fills js variables so you can use them on your pages, or via WP shortcodes. Here is something I built using it on a site to change the homepage background based on the state (RegionName) that is detected using jQuery.

The GeoLocation plugin fills these variables that can be used in javascript, see the mmjsRegionName (State) in the code below:

• mmjsCountryCode
• mmjsCountryName
• mmjsCity
• mmjsRegion
• mmjsRegionName
• mmjsLat
• mmjsLong
• mmjsPostalCode
• mmjsIPAddress

// must be inside <script> tags
$(document).ready(function(){
     if(mmjsRegionName=="Colorado"){
          $('#bg').html('<img id="bgimg" src="wp-content/themes/acme/style/images/denver.png">');
     }else{
          $('#bg').html('<img id="bgimg" src="wp-content/themes/acme/style/images/chicago.png">');
     }
});

All you have to do is change the Application Pool’s .Net Framework version from 4.0 to 2.0. Caveat: Only do this if you need to use 2.0 (which also includes 3.5, since 3.5 is 2.0 extended, essentially), if you need 4.0 you normally won’t see this error, as it has to do with the web.config being the wrong version for the configured IIS version. Here’s how to fix it:

Open IIS Manager and Click “Application Pools” and find the one that matches your website. ACME Co, for example. Double-click it and you’ll get the Pop-up window. Change the .Net Framework version to 2.0.50727. It should look like this:

tags inside the head tags on your page. This applies the transparent “color” to all the states of a link, visited is usually purple, hover is as the mouse is over the link or image, active is any link not yet clicked.

The css file version

     a,a:visited,a:hover,a:active{color: transparent;}

The style-in-head tags version

<head>
     <style type="text/css">
          a,a:visited,a:hover,a:active{color: transparent;}
     </style>
</head>

Here’s how to make IE8 behave as IE7, which eliminates most of the strange display and other issues in IE8 that shouldn’t be there. Stick it to the man with this one line, placed inside your tags.

<head>
     <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7">
</head>

instead of having 2 declarations in the page, it should look more like this:

public partial class App_UserControls_forms_Contact : System.Web.UI.UserControl, IGenericContent

Where the iGenericContent is added onto the end, making it a part of the partial class’s member list (I think). How you learn this stuff I have no idea. I’ve read documents, done searches, took a massive class on c# and .net and still don’t know a lot of what talented programmers consider basic easy common knowledge. I also have a learning disability which makes this hard as well.

I am not dumb, and programmers are not generally forthcoming when it comes time to help someone else out, especially not in the .net world. Open source is much more friendly and well, open to collaboration, even when the collaboratees are dumb as a box of sunblock. That whole teach a man to fish thing…anyway.

Any suggestions on how to learn all this “ethereal knowledge” crap easily without the head-banging?

This is accomplished via a filetype specific application “controller” which handles all the files in the respective folders and is consumed into the core guts of rails 3.1 by using “load path“, which I don’t fully get yet, it’ll come soon. I’m riding on a very sketchy 3-5 ish hours of sleep due to kiddo 4.0 not sleeping and being 3 weeks old. That never equates to prod quality baby sleeps. The framework must mature some more for that. Oh yeah, mention: …is prone to tangents. About babies and other stuff. Oh look, in the corner, stuff! Cool.

The new locations for all your fileage makes a lot of sense, place css, js, and img files in app/assets/javascripts, app/assets/stylesheets, and app/assets/images, not respectively. Once you do this, the application.js and .css files will take over. Images doesn’t have one.

The other things now included in rails 3.1 is the CoffeeScript and Sass languages, and though they look sexy like a backyard swingset, you can easily exclude them by adding the obligatory # in front the of their declaration in the gemfile, like remming out batch script code in the good old (albeit ruby free) days. You can do the same thing with jquery-ruby, and use prototype instead, but of course stupidity is your problem on your own time. NOT using jQuery would need a decidedly good reason, which I can’t conjure even not sleep-deprived.

In general, the move to split off the js frameworks from rails and head the ‘vendor’ route, like CakePHP and tons of other frameworks have is an excellent one. That way everyone gets what they want and no one is tied down. Defaults with override-able preferences is a development pattern. It also helps noobs trying to learn the language.

Here’s the Keynote by DHH at RailsConf 2011

Click here to view the embedded video.