Stop .DS_Store files on Network Shares

Posted in OS X Tips on March 1st, 2010 by phoenixdigital

To stop Mac OSX from creating .DS_Store files to network drives run the following command.

  • Open Terminal.
  • Execute this command:
    defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
  • Either restart the computer or log out and back in to the user account.

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CSS Examples

Posted in HTML & CSS on February 23rd, 2010 by phoenixdigital

For those wanting a live example of what various styles perform
http://www.somacon.com/p141.php

http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/accessible_custom_designed_checkbox_radio_button_inputs_styled_css_jquery/

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Jquery Calendars

Posted in JQuery on February 22nd, 2010 by phoenixdigital

http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/
or
http://jquery-week-calendar.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jquery.weekcalendar/full_demo/weekcalendar_full_demo.html

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JQuery Awesomeness

Posted in JQuery on February 10th, 2010 by phoenixdigital

JQuery makes what used to be very tedious javascript features a few simple one liners. An added benefit is it is pretty much cross browser compatible. So you don’t need to code
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Free Icon Libraries

Posted in HTML & CSS on February 4th, 2010 by phoenixdigital

It is very frustrating searching the net for a range of free icons as most that claim to be free are just pointers to crappy icons which then offer another range of paid ones as well. While I think people should be paid for icon design I think it makes it hard to find icons for a small project or admin screen.

Here are some links to some known FREE icon libraries
http://www.axialis.com/free/icons/

Recursive SQL query for parent child data

Posted in MSSQL on February 3rd, 2010 by phoenixdigital

Powerful scripts to retrieve parent child data in a few simple calls
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=366078

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Testing on multiple IE versions

Posted in C# Programming, JQuery, PHP Programming, VB .Net Programming on February 3rd, 2010 by phoenixdigital

Handy little program to test on the various versions of IE

IE Tester

Sure to cause no end of frustration getting layouts to look the same in all versions.

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JQuery Nested Sortable

Posted in JQuery on February 3rd, 2010 by phoenixdigital

Great little jquery addon to handle parent child relationships and sortable lists.

http://bitsinashortbit.wordpress.com/2007/07/22/nested-sortable-jquery-plugin/

This was written for jquery 1.1.x so if you have any issues with jquery 1.2.x or higher in IE which only allows dragging of objects once. Either downgrade jquery or download idrag_source.js from this post
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HTTP Post from code behind in C#

Posted in C# Programming on January 21st, 2010 by phoenixdigital

Sometimes you may be required to send some data to a remote site from the code behind via HTTP. Generally this can easily be perfomed if the site allows for GET submissions. However sometimes the site will only accept POST submissions.
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Disable Startup Programs on Windows OS’

Posted in Windows on January 18th, 2010 by phoenixdigital

Nifty little tool that is recommended by Microsoft for disabling programs that run at startup.
Saves you the hassle of editing the registry and also provides a way to restore these programs.
AutoRuns.

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