5 interesting tidbits I read today – Feb. 9, 2010

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book review: Crush It – added to my to be read list.
bring Your Websites Alive: From Boring To Exciting! – great tips and excellent examples.
20 classy free sans-serif fonts – some good looking fonts.
5 Ways to Add a Bit of Extra Detail to Your Web Design – great tips.
3 golden rules of site redesign – change the look, not the feel; avoid losing search engine rankings; back up the old site and use a development environment.

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Dreamweaver CS3 and Daylight Savings Bug

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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.