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…
Category: Programming
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…
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…
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…
C#.NET
Windows Service – Marked For Deletion
Windows Services,especially managed .NET ones , can be extremely difficult to deploy if not done correct initially. Errors, of course, can also…
Book Review
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
Coders at Work written by Peter Seibel is a fantastic book of interviews of fifteen very famous programmers. Audience of the book…
.NET Framework
Run a Single Instance of An Application (.NET)
Occasionally, as a software developer you want to restrict a user to only allow them to run one instance of an application…
SQL Server
SSRS 2005 Report Manager Browser Fix
As anyone that works with Microsoft products (especially older ones) knows, it can be extremely difficult to get one of their products…
Book Review
Professional PHP Design Patterns
Professional PHP Design Patterns written by Aaron Saray, coming in at around 250 pages is a very short and concise book. Unfortunately,…
Magento
Magento Add/Edit Footer Links
Editing the footer links in magento is actually pretty easy. By default, there should be a static block called footer_links. The static…