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Can any one use the site “http://www.precoscombustiveis.dgge.pt/” without having errors??? Part 3

Pedro Rainho — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:35:40 GMT

While I was using the site I found a NEW kind of error

I typed “Paço d’arcos” in the search box. For those who don’t know Paço d’arcos Is near Oeiras.

And this friendly site searches for Paço d’arcos and shows a maps positioned near “Santa Maria da Feira” that is in north of Portugal, it’s like I search for “New york” and map pointed my to north pole… I don’t know if I should be impressed or sad how my money is being spent.

I done my homework and search in google maps just to see if Paço d’arcos is in fact near Oeiras and it is :)

Does any one ever test this site before go online ????

Can any one use the site “http://www.precoscombustiveis.dgge.pt/” without having errors???

Pedro Rainho — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:08:24 GMT

Here in Portugal the governors decided to spend public money doing a site that, most of the time, doesn’t work. At least that is my opinion.

I only had spent in the site no more that 3-4 minutes and found some curious errors. I decide to share one of the error that I found.

Here is the screen shoots and how to reproduce one of the bug.

I select “Castelo Branco” and the I choose “Seleccionar todos os municipios deste distrito”, and what happens…

I love this error I can imagine users that are not programmers trying to understand this error message :) the message is sooooo expressive :).

This is where our governors spend our money…

But let’s check the error message just for seeing if it says something usefull. hooo and by the way I’ve formatted the message in the messagebox it’s more easy to read :)


Server Error in '/' Application.        

The ConnectionString property has not been initialized. 
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.       



Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: The ConnectionString property has not been initialized.       



Source Error:       




    
        
                           
             Line 11:     CMD = New OdbcCommand  Line 12:     CMD.Connection = CN  Line 13: 		CN.Open()

Line 14:     

Line 15:     If Request("mh") = "" OrElse Request("mh") = "1" Then
            
        
    



Source File: D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\DGEGPOSTOS2008\include\mapaPTDB.aspx    Line: 13       



Stack Trace:       




    
        
                           
             [InvalidOperationException: The ConnectionString property has not been initialized.]     
System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection.Open() +741    
 ASP.mapaPTCB_aspx.LeZonas() in D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\DGEGPOSTOS2008\include\mapaPTDB.aspx:13     
ASP.mapaPTCB_aspx.__Render__control1(HtmlTextWriter __output, Control parameterContainer) in D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\DGEGPOSTOS2008\include\mapaPTCB.aspx:5     
System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildren(HtmlTextWriter writer) +27     
System.Web.UI.Control.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer) +7     
System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer) +243     
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +1926
            
        
    

       


       

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2032; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2032 
 
 
Interesting message especially the part that says OdbcCommand. What are they using as data bases… are they using MS Access as there data base or a CSV text file ????… that is a really nice question.

The other thing that I see is that there site is located in D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\DGEGPOSTOS2008\include hummm and the have a file called mapaPTDB.aspx that has a error on line 13 probably a missing a text file :)

Continuing with the error I see a message “The ConnectionString property has not been initialized.” hummm a public site sponsored by public money and some one forget to initialize correctly the connection string…

Continuing analyzing the error I see .NET Framework Version 1.1.4322.2032; ASP.NET Version 1.1.4322.2022… hummm analyzing these versions they also probably forget to apply Framework 1.1 SP1

I’m impressed how the governor invest my and others money.

Oxite

Pedro Rainho — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:31:06 GMT

Today I've head about a new buzz word "Oxite". according to Oxite website "Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content management platform that can run anything from blogs to big web sites. We know this because it runs MIX Online.".

I have tested Oxite and from what I've seen:

it's open source, you can grab the code.
it's standard compliant, probably at least I didn't saw tables like Sharepoint 2007 but I probably will run Taw just to check if respects accessibility.
it's highly extensible content management platform, from what I've saw right know it's a very basic CMS, don't know if it's extensible haven't tested.
And finally Oxite looks more like a blog than like a CMS

To run Oxite, just open the solution and select the OxiteSite project and choose "Set as a StartUp Project"

Ten press run and a browser with a page like this will be loaded

Here you can Login with:

User: Admin

Pass: pa$$w0rd

Here in this page you can create posts

And pages

And it's also possible to edit pages

As it's possible to see the page/post editor is very elementary I definitely change it to the FCKEditor.

To Download Oxite just download here. One other thing it's also necessary to download ASP.Net MVC Beta from here.

My finally notes is that this is a very elementary Blog/CMS and with some changes it can be a good lightweight open source CMS :)