SQL Server
SSRS Doesn’t Respond
Every few months, especially after a windows update, I find that SQL Server Reporting Services’ ReportManager just won’t load. There’s no errors,…
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JavaScript
Dealing With Dates in JavaScript
Dates and DateTimes are difficult to deal with in most languages. The Date object is a datatype that’s built in the JavaScript…
Programming
Dealing with Crappy Code
As a freelance developer / consultant, I am regularly hired by clients that outsource software development and don’t have somebody that looks…
SQL Server
Get List of Tables and Creation Date from SQL Server
Getting information from the SQL Server system tables is relatively easy and can be a great way of checking whether you completed…
.NET Framework
CSV Parser
For some of my work, I work on data importers and other different tasks which require dealing with CSV and tab delimited…
Experience
Clean Code: Compiler Warnings
It’s no secret that I work as a freelance software/web developer and often jump around between languages. I, continually, run into projects…
Book Review
Book Review: Clean Code a Handbook of Software Craftsmanship
I first heard of “Uncle” Bob Martin on twitter, a few of the people I was following were discussing how amazing the…
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Full Upgrade from MS DOS 5 to Windows 7
JavaScript
Disabling Caching on All AJAX in jQuery
It’s no secret that many of us that use javascript regularly love jQuery because it handles a lot of the cross browser…
PHP
PEAR Mail – Checking If Mail Sent
PEAR Mail & mail_mime is absolutely fantastic for sending multi-part mime emails and requires absolutely no effort. Probably, the best part of…
PHP
Installing PEAR on BlueHost
PEAR as I’m sure you’re aware stands for “PHP Extension and Application Repository” and is one of the leading frameworks for reusable…
SQL Server
SSSRS Number Stored As Text
Today, while changing a report in SQL Server Reporting Services I noticed that my report when exported to excel was showing the…
.NET Framework
try..catch Usage – Unused Variable Warning
Elminating the unused variable warning for a declaration in the catch block is very easy because you don’t need to assign to…
Magento
Add A Facebook Like Button
A while ago, Facebook created the Facebook Like Button that works by using an iframe of FBML. The Like button allows you…
Magento
How to Tell What Version of Magento
The easiest way of telling what version of Magento you are running is by viewing file app/Mage.php and looking for a function…
Magento
Magento An Introduction
What is Magento? Magento is an open source eCommerce platform with two versions: Magento Community Editon, and Magento Enterprise Edition. Magento is…
JavaScript
How to Add CSS & JavaScript to a Magento CMS Page
Magento is an insanely flexible system that has a lot of potential, but of course with this flexibility comes a lot of…
Magento
Displaying The Newsletter On a CMS Page/Block
I really like magento, and a lot of the built in features although it can be difficult sometimes to figure out how…
.NET Framework
Stopping a System.Threading.Timer
Stopping a System.Threading.Timer isn’t very well covered in the MSDN documentation. We need to use the Change Method which accepts two integers.…
JavaScript
jQuery Mobile: Page Blank
jQuery Mobile is an absolutely amazing javascript framework that can easily assist developing mobile friendly websites. jQuery Mobile is easily summarized by…