Thoughts and dreams for a better world… one smile, beat, code at a time
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Upcoming Blog Topics
Some of the topics to watch out for soon (have been in my queue for sometime). In no particular order. Soon, but if you have issues related to below and might need additional information feel free to contact me. * AJAXControlToolkit ModalPopupExtender, Google Chrome and z-index * delegate/anonymous method cannot be deployed to SQL (SQL…
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Let’s Support Earth Hour 2009
Please support Earth Hour 2009. Turn off your lights or reduce energy usage on March 28, 2009 (Saturday) 8:30 – 9:30 PM. Or better yet, know and get involved and take action about climate changes and how to preserve our precious planet. Earth Hour Official Website
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philippine domains limited one year registration offer
** Philippine (.PH) domains are now available for one year registration (as opposed to being previously available in two-year registrations only). But only for a limited time so grab your .PH domains by clicking HERE now. [more] We are now offering one year domain registrations at $38.00 for a limited time (March 10, 2009 to…
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define programmer
1) pro·gram·mer (n) An organism capable of converting caffeine into code. 2) Semi-sentient being who inexplicably survives an extremely unhealthy lifestyle. Usually found in confined spaces with low lighting, at a computer terminal. 3) One who can read the following example if( !User.IsProgrammer ){ return "Everyone Else"; } Taken from UrbanDictionary
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Link: IE 8 Release Candidate 1
"Internet Explorer 8 has been designed from the ground up to be enterprise-ready. It helps reduce security risk through features such as a cross-site scripting filter, the SmartScreen® Filter, and safer controls and management of the Microsoft® ActiveX® technologies, platform, controls, scripting, and server framework. And when you download the latest RC1 software, you're automatically…
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TSQL to get SQL Server properties
TSQL script to get common SQL Server properties (edition, instancename et al) [more] SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('Collation') Collation, SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') Edition, SERVERPROPERTY('Engine Edition') EngineEdition, SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName') InstanceName, SERVERPROPERTY('IsClustered') IsClustered, SERVERPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled') IsFullTextInstalled, SERVERPROPERTY('IsIntegratedSecurityOnly') IsIntegratedSecurityOnly, SERVERPROPERTY('IsSingleUser') IsSingleUser, SERVERPROPERTY('IsSyncWithBackup') IsSyncWithBackup, SERVERPROPERTY('LicenseType') LicenseType, SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') MachineName, SERVERPROPERTY('NumLicenses') NumLicenses, SERVERPROPERTY('ProcessID') ProcessID, …
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My Simple Talk article on ANTS Profiler and Performance
A couple of weeks back, RedGate/SimpleTalk contacted me for a short article about ANTS Profiler. I've been using it for sometime and has definitely been very useful so I won't think twice about recommending it. Here's the link (below) and please do drop by to read it. Feel free to rate/comment Using a profiler to…
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language translation for this site
To be able to share to a wider audience I have placed Google Translation gadget at the upper left side of these pages. [more] I'm a frustrated linguist and I will try my best to write in a way that will likely to produce correct translation but forgive me if I don't. Hopefully soon I…
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Suspected Trojan or Virus qxty9be.cmd
Suspected Trojan is messing up my PC at this very moment[more] I attached my portable drive to a computer that didn't have antivirus today. The computer was working fine (at least as it seems) but I found a certain "autorun.inf" and "qxty9be.cmd" in that diks afterwards. I scanned the disk and Symantec didn't see anything!…
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GoDaddy IIS7 DotnetNuke Joomla WordPress
UPDATE (2/2/09): GoDaddy even on deluxe/premium/unlimited hosting accounts, applications (eg. .NET application root) is configured as virtual directories. Thus the ApplicationRootPath is still rooted on the ROOT of the hosting disk space. This makes sense I think and so even if domain points to say ROOT/subfolderA, Response.Redirect("~/Page.aspx") will still point to <domain>/subfolderA/Page.aspx and it will…
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