Category Archives: Programming

Super Secret Project Pt 2

Posted on December 22, 2009 by dale

As I explained in Part 1, I’ve been working on a super secret project (Christmas present for my wife). Don’t worry my wife hardly ever reads this site so I doubt she’ll read all this and anyway she’s unlikely to … Continue reading →

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Super Secret Project Pt 1

Posted on December 11, 2009 by dale

I’ve been working on a super secret project (Christmas present for my wife), the coding for the project has been done in C# using Mono on my Windows Vista laptop, although the plan is to run the code on Linux. … Continue reading →

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SQL – Find all triggers in a MS SQL database.

Posted on December 8, 2009 by dale

This script will find all the triggers in a Microsoft SQL database, its come in handy when I’ve been trying to work out where in the system people have tied there code into. I’m not a huge fan of triggers … Continue reading →

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Howto Debug an odd problem – “Load Datalogic Scanner XML Settings Failure!”

Posted on September 4, 2009 by dale

I had an odd problem today with a USB barcode scanner and its OPOS driver. The scanner in question is a DataLogic 2200VS USB scanner and I’m using its OPOS Driver (USBScanner is the OPOS Device name) on a Windows … Continue reading →

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Accessing MSSQL in Python

Posted on July 14, 2009 by dale

I was playing around with a crazy idea I had (more on that another day) and needed to be able to access MS SQL from Python, a quick search and I found this project, pymssql It works great, I’ve only … Continue reading →

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Generating PDF’s using Javascript

Posted on April 23, 2009 by dale

Stumbled across this code to generate PDF’s clientside using Javascript. It works, although it didn’t work in Firefox 3 correctly, perfectly in Google Chrome though. The idea is pretty awesome though, I wonder what other formats could be created this … Continue reading →

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Anyone using Google App Engine?

Posted on April 16, 2009 by dale

I’ve been reading up about Google App Engine, which sounds interesting. It sounds like yet another “cloud” computer although one of the advantages is that this one is free, or at least some of the services are free and it … Continue reading →

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Open Source/Free Utils and Applications

Posted on April 15, 2009 by dale

I thought I would list a bunch of Open Source / Free utils and applications that I use almost every day. I’m excluding the obvious ones like Linux (in my case Ubuntu). The list below is what I use in … Continue reading →

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Anyone have any experience with CSLA.net

Posted on March 4, 2009 by dale

Anyone have any experience using CSLA.Net ? I’ve seen it being used in the past but more as a Data Access Layer, which is not exactly what it was designed for. I’m working on a project that would basically envolve … Continue reading →

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AJAX – Do I dare code it from scratch?

Posted on January 29, 2009 by dale

When “ajaxyfying” (my new word for when you add AJAX to a site) a website do you code all the java script your self or do you go use one of the many AJAX libraries/frameworks? I’m currently working on something … Continue reading →

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