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I use Javascript much more than visual basic, so I’ve always been puzzled by how to escape nested quotes in strings in VB. In Javascript, you either nest single quotes (apostrophe’s) and double quotes or
Continue readingTo create a nicer looking Flickr badge, use Flickr’s badge creation tool to get the right user code and content codes for your badge.
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This search form is based on the PHP and AJAX Live Search example from the w3schools.com site. I adapted it to show how it might work with ASP classic. This form finds all courses in
Continue readingI had a lot of trouble trying to update the Views module. When I would attempt to run update.php, I got the White Screen of Death. I removed several modules and tried to view the
Continue readingNote: This is a repost of my blog posting from Letsi.org In training healthcare workers, there is a particular emphasis on distinguishing between individuals based on fine-grained demographic and user data: where they work, who
Continue readingThere is growing interest in the use of intranasally administered insulin for treating symptoms of early alzheimers and for improving memory and cognition in general. An article published in Neurology in 2008 describes the results
Continue readingWhile looking for more information on how Server Side Includes are implemented on IIS servers, I ran across the #exec directive. <!– #exec CommandType=CommandDescription–> #exec allows an HTML page to run an application (ASP application,
Continue readingIf you are having problems sending mail from the iPhone, try the following. Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars Under Accounts, click the account you are having trouble sending mail with. Scroll down to Outgoing Mail
Continue readingFor all the dotProject newbies out there, this is the kind of thing I wish I’d had when I got started – it would have saved me a lot of time. I’m posting all the files for a dotproject site I manage, since it seems it may help people get started in customizing dotProject.
To find my changes, search across all the files for the phrases “ellen added” or “ellen changed” in various comments.
One note of caution! I am not an expert in php or dotproject so the fact that something has been done doesn’t necessarily mean it is done in the best way, nor even that works. But these files should help to get you going. This is presented “as is” and I will not fix things for you or document things beyond what is in the articles I post here (Browse all my dotProject posts)
The scrolled window setting is a feature in Snagit that can be used to capture a page or application whose contents are too long or too wide to fit in one window. There is an “auto-scroll” setting which is supposed to scroll the window vertically or horizontally until all the content is captured.
I’ve never been able to get that to work and assumed it was broken on Windows XP. Perhaps it works on Vista. After playing with all the options I did finally manage to find a good workaround, although I still can’t get the default “auto-scroll” setting to work.
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