A lot of people have been trying to download a copy of Windows Home Server 2008 but (like myself) could only find the 120 day trial available by ordering the CD to be delivered via snail mail. So here is how you can download an evaluation copy and avoid the wait!
After installing Vista I had some issues with my HTPC (Home Theater PC); whenever the HTPC ‘awoke’ from being ‘asleep’ (sleep mode) it was locked, even when I had supplied no password for my user! So here is a quick tutorial on how you can disable this option in Vista.
The other day I was handed an Access database, after waiting a couple of minutes for it to open I was dumbfounded with the monster it had grown into (check out the screen shots below). The funny thing was that this database somehow produced a report which a lot of ‘important’ people used and after the builder departed it was left up to me to get it back up and running.
So to prevent any future mishaps here are some tips that I use to keep my Access database organized…
So Will Smiths’ new Science Fiction release, Hancock, has been bringing in billions of dollars but I still keep asking myself, is Will Smith a good Science Fiction representative/actor?
Before you go ahead and say “but Will Smith releases are always successful”, I’m not denying that but with his recent sci-fi releases he has started to ruin the genre with his “bust yo aliens ass” or Duke Nukem style. The blame doesn’t solely sit with Smith but also with the writers who write the scripts. Although it seems to me that Will Smith is the only one who can fill the role of these renegade characters who have such insightful quotes.
This post looks at the bad and the good (not many) sci-fi releases from Will Smiths repertoire.
When using alot of Ajax it is recommended to use JSON instead of XML for data. This is mainly because JSON is native to Javascript and is faster to process. As Script.aculo.us creator Thomas Fuchs puts it XML is “dog slow…don’t do it”. In this tutorial i’m going to show you a simple implementation of a PHP JSON web service.
Every good series comes with characters that you just can’t stand, here is a bunch of characters from the Star Trek series who really get on my nerves.
Ever wanted to remember what Google.com looked like back in 1998? Have a look at the Wayback Machine where homepages are dumped and stored over time to show the changes over time.
Here is a quick tip on how to change the order of your series from an Excel chart.
After playing around with Excel and PowerPoint 2007, I was very impressed at the way you can format your objects to look very Web 2.0ish, but as I use 2003 at work a lot I wanted to see if I could replicate this.
Here is a quick tutorial on how to change your objects in an Excel 2003 worksheet or PowerPoint 2003 presentation into Web 2.0 style objects.
In this tutorial I will show you how to add ratings to your models by using the acts_as_rateable plugin in Ruby on Rails. This plugin makes ActiveRecord models rateable through a polymorphic association and optionally logs which user rated which model.
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