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Working around Exchange Webmail / OWA constant logoffs

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I've always found that Exchange's webmail system, aka "Outlook Web Access", to be extremely buggy regarding remembering who you are. It sets sessions cookies with a pretty far-away timeout but regardless of whether I'm connected via a VPN or from the public internet it always delights in logging me out as quickly as it can. Well, I've worked out a work-around for these all too frequent occurrences. Here's what you do:

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One solution for "unexpected T_SR" errors in PHP

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Here's a little tidbit. If you ever get "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_SR" errors in PHP, check to see if you had any svn merge conflicts. This error raised its ugle head this evening for me and that's exactly what it turned out to be. Then just bounce over to your svn client of choice, fix the conflict (or just delete the offending files and grab the latest file again), and the error will disappear.

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Key Drupal 5 concept - boxes are not automatic

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A key feature in Drupal is being able to create plugins/modules that create their own blocks, chunks of functionality that can be placed anywhere on the page by using the blocks/regions configuration or panels. If you do happen to create your own, bear in mind that while you automatically gain the features of the mail blocks table, you do not gain access to the boxes table, so you have to create your own body content block. Just thought you should know. And yes, this fact has just dawned on me. Doh.

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