January 2006


Random19 Jan 2006 04:36 pm

Check this out: http://www.dice.com/beingit/

I particularly like the Pinata Gun on the Sales Manager.

Uncategorized12 Jan 2006 02:27 pm

Windows XP has great native support for zipped files. When you right-click on a zipped file, it gives a number of great options including, Extract All. I recently installed and then uninstalled PowerArchiver and it was kind enough to remove Windows’ native support for zipped files. Grrr..

Here’s the fix for any other likewise affected:

In Windows Explorer go to Tools > Folder Options. Select the File Types tab. Click New. In the dialog type “zip” and click Advanced. Scroll down and select “Compressed (zipped) folder”. You’ll have to do this with each extension you want it to be able to unzip for you (e.g. .rar files, etc.)

Installing WordPress12 Jan 2006 12:34 pm

Wordpress 2.0 came out a little while ago. I’m installing it on a new site and ran into a problem on the install step.

The fix is to comment out line 38:

Line 38 in wp-settings.php is a “fix” for (quote):
// Fix for PHP as CGI hosts that set SCRIPT_FILENAME to something ending in php.cgi for all requests

Is this the case with your server?

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/53438

Note: I’m running WordPress on a Windows 2003 server with MySQL on the same box. That might have been the source of the error.

Javascript and CSS11 Jan 2006 01:21 am

Great piece of javascript mixed with CSS enlarges a thumbnail in response to a click. It greys out the rest of the screen and shows the whole image. Hardly any programming required too!
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

SQL Server03 Jan 2006 11:53 pm

Is it possible to execute a stored procedured within another stored procedure? According to this thread, it appears so. I’ll have to try it out.

Within a stored procedure, you can execute a stored procedure via EXEC OwnerName.StoredProcedureName. Check SQL Server Books Online for details on executing stored procedures. If the stored procedure returns a result set, then you can:

CREATE TABLE #Temp…
INSERT INTO #Temp…
EXEC dbo.SP1 @parm1 = 10

DROP TABLE #Temp

Tara Kizer
aka tduggan