Firefox Speed Tips

From Firefox Tuning – MozillaZine Forums… Type “about:config” in your FireFox address bar, then make the following changes: network.http.pipelining = true network.http.maxrequests = 8 network.http.proxy.pipelining = true browser.turbo.enabled = true […]

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Written By Ben Strackany

Log Parser 2.2 Released!

Finally, Log Parser 2.2 has been released. If you didn”t know, LogParser is a great little tool that will rip through log files & delimited data files (Event logs, IIS […]

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Another test site

Again, in the vegas theme… 🙂

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Test site

I recently realized that I could probably put together a few small sites using the tech I developed for development now. I’ve received numerous comments from visitors saying how the […]

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SQL Server timestamp column

SQL Server 7/2000 supports a column type of timestamp. A table can only have one timestamp column, and you cannot set its value directly. Instead, a timestamp column’s value is […]

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DataReader NULL values

One way to deal with possibly-NULL string values from a datareader is to check for NULL first, e.g. string myvalue; if (myDataReader[“MyField”] != System.DBNull.Value) myvalue = myDataReader.GetString(myDataReader.GetOrdinal(“MyField”)); else myvalue = […]

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Excel Automation: This action will cancel a pending refresh data command. Continue?

If you’re automating Excel via the ActiveX/COM objects, you may notice an annoying msgbox saying This action will cancel a pending refresh data command. Continue? you can disable it via […]

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Written By Ben Strackany