Timeline WordPress Plugin

Posted October 9th, 2006 and filed under blogtech, Programming.

This domain of mine has had stuff on it for a long, long time — before WordPress or MovableType or even Blogger. The original davidgagne.net is, sadly, lost forever. Some pieces of it have been kicking around on my various hard drives and FTP locations for a decade now. One file that I could never… Read more »

Disable WordPress File Upload

Posted September 29th, 2006 and filed under blogtech, Programming.

Although I can appreciate that it’s a really nifty feature, I am likely never going to use the built-in File Upload feature in WordPress. What has bugged me is that it’s in an IFRAME in the Write Post panel; I think it slows the page load. I was trying to get rid of it, but… Read more »

LIMIT and OFFSET in MS SQL Server

Posted September 22nd, 2006 and filed under Programming, Software, Web Design.

How to Hack MySQL Paging Functionality into Microsoft SQL Server Web developers using PHP and MySQL have a crucial piece of functionality that classic ASP developers working with Microsoft SQL Server don’t. It’s pagination. Using MySQL’s LIMIT and OFFSET commands you can very easily add pagination to recordsets that you want to display on web… Read more »

DropCaps, Amazon Tags for WordPress

Posted September 20th, 2006 and filed under blogtech, Programming, Web Design.

I have finally updated two of my WordPress hack tutorials so that they are compliant with v. 2.04. The first one — DropCaps — allows you to put that nifty “dropcap” into a post. This post begins with a dropcap I. The second one — Amazon Tags — adds two new buttons to your editing… Read more »

MySQL Triggers Tutorial

Posted September 19th, 2006 and filed under Programming.

Jon is one of my developers at work. He recently started a WordPress blog called Rusty Razor Blade. I’m guessing that most of what he’ll be posting is going to be fairly technical stuff about MySQL, LAMP, AJAX, and JSON. So far his first really interesting post is a MySQL Triggers Tutorial. It’s actually a… Read more »

Dot Don’t

Posted November 21st, 2005 and filed under Programming.

What system are people using to create web sites that have .do files? It seems that every site I visit that employs this coding is slow, slow, slow. Men’s Health and Capital One both have sites built with tons of .do files and redirects and both of them drive me nuts.

Business Days

Posted April 28th, 2004 and filed under Programming.

(Q) How do I calculate total number of working days between two dates? (A) Use this function.

ASP FTP

Posted March 16th, 2004 and filed under Programming.

Lewies Blog Update: Lewies used to have a good article on how to execute FTP processes via ASP. It is apparently no longer there.

IIS Auto Restart

Posted March 2nd, 2004 and filed under Programming.

Does anybody know of any way to have IIS automatically restart itself every few hours? Do tell.

PHP / DAO

Posted October 21st, 2003 and filed under Programming.

Code 10x More Efficiently Using Data Access Objects and PHP …

Rotating Ad Banner

Posted June 10th, 2003 and filed under Programming, Web Design.

Great tutorial for beginners: Rotating Banner Ads using a Database

Scrolling Ticker Headline

Posted March 12th, 2003 and filed under Programming.

After hours and hours of googling, I finally found the only javascript horizontal text scroller that doesn’t suck. If anyone knows of a better one, please let me know. While we all wait I’ll be re-coding this to accept input from an external database and building an ASP front-end for editing it …