I’ve been having these strange Dreamweaver issues lately at work. Opening and clicking in any section of a php or asp document was immediately followed by a Dreamweaver crash. It was really puzzling to me and after running defrag and a virus scan I even considered to re-install this darn Dreamweaver.

This morning though it happened on my home PC, and it was clear that I need to either dump DW or find a solution. So 15mins of googling revealed a Dreamweaver Daylight Savings Bug. Who would have known? Apparently, this bug has been live since last year.

This bug manifests itself in all its glory when clock goes back one hour, which causes a corruption of a WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat file. So to fix this you simply need to delete the WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat file. Indeed – no more crashes.

Dreamweaver 8 or Dreamweaver CS4 are not affected by this bug.

If you use clearfix class to clear floated elements throughout your site, you might have been faced with a large gap in IE6 browser, even if you specified 1px height property, like so:

.clearfix { clear:both; height:1px; }

There is a very simple solution for this problem – just add the line-height property.

.clearfix { clear:both; height:1px; line-height:1px; }

1. Photoshop
2. Visual Studio 2008
3. Firefox
4. Google Reader
5. Outlook

What are yours?

“What is Firebug?” you may ask. Firebug is an excellent Firefox browser extension that is great for troubleshooting, editing, monitoring, and debugging. It is free and open source. It is one of my favorite web development tools.

Here is a list of useful Firebug resources and tutorials:

1. Get Firebug
2. Firebug Documentation
3. Overview of Firebug – a very good and detailed overview written by Michael Sync.
4. Better JavaScript debugging in 15 mins by Digital Media Minute.
5. Firebug Tips and Tricks by seifi.org
6. 10 Things you didn’t know about Firebug by Eric Wendelin
7. How to debug PHP with Firebug by Mathias Bank
8. A Firebug Tutorial by evotech.net
9. Web Development with Firebug by Joe Hewitt (video).
10. Intro to debugging AJAX Applications with Firebug (video)
11. Introduction to CSS editing using Firebug (video)
12. Debugging with Firebug by Joe Hewitt
13. Using Commandline API in Firebug by Michael Sync
14. Script Tab: JavaScript Tutorial by Michael Sync
15. Net, CSS, and DOM Tabs by Michael Sync (at the bottom of this article you will find an index of all the article that Michael has written about Firebug).
16. About Firebug by Aptana
17. Firebug Working Group
18. Firebug Development Blog
19. Firebug Discussion group
20. A place to report Firebug bugs
21. Firebug Internals
22. How to Speedup Firefox if you have Firebug

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