Archive for 2006
December 2nd, 2006 by Rich Zygler
tags: Google, Ideas | No Comments »
I'm a google-whore. I freely admit this. I use a ton of their tools. Gmail. Calendar. The personalized search home page complete with widgets (or whatever google calls them, probably googets). Yahoo has the same tools and Ask.com is catching up with some neat stuff but ...
November 17th, 2006 by Rich Zygler
tags: Firefox | 2 Comments »
What's cool about this is that you can use one profile with all your nice web developer extensions set up and another for quick browsing with no extensions installed. I find using a few extensions tends to bog Firefox down (even still today) so doing without some when I'm just ...
October 5th, 2006 by Rich Zygler
tags: DB2 | 2 Comments »
When creating a table in DB2, to create a Boolean datatype column (since DB2 doesn’t have this natively) you have to use a check constraint on a smallint column. So if you have a column named “ACTIVE” that you want to be Boolean, you would create the that col ...
October 5th, 2006 by Rich Zygler
tags: DB2 | No Comments »
Well, another job and another database system to learn. I've got practically all of them under my belt now ;-)
I finished reading this article on sequences vs key managers vs identity columns and decided I needed to go with a sequence.
To create a new sequence called “USERS_SEQ” for a ...
August 18th, 2006 by Rich Zygler
tags: .NET, ASP.NET, C#, JSON, Visual Studio 2005, XML | 1 Comment »
I kept getting this on a page that did nothing but reference a code behind.
Validation(): Element 'html' occurs too few times.
This is because VS2005 is performing HTML validation by default. Yuk. You can turn this off by going to:
Tools --> Options --> Text Editor --> HTML --> Validation
Uncheck ...
August 16th, 2006 by Rich Zygler
tags: AJAX, JSON, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, XML | 1 Comment »
I'm working on a project where I thought a little AJAX magic would help the user interface a bit, so I've been adding that functionality piece by piece. For this web site, we've previously standardized on using the ADODB PHP database abstraction library for all our queries.
The particular circumstances ...
August 16th, 2006 by Rich Zygler
tags: Job Search | 2 Comments »
This stuff drives me nuts.
Go to careerbuilder.com. Set up an account if you don't already have one
Add a job search, save it as an agent (or whatever they call it)
Now, when you go to your "my careerbuilder" you'll see a list of local jobs and your saved searches below ...
August 2nd, 2006 by Rich Zygler
tags: .NET, C#, MySQL | No Comments »
I had to access a Mysql database at work today using C# and .NET. Well, I didn't have to... but I wanted to... and I had some down time. I'm mainly a PHP guy, but C# is similar enough to C/C++ that I figured out what I needed ...
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