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Google & Outlook Calendars Together at Last

Matt Rist — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:44:56 GMT

This may be a sure sign of Armageddon but Google recently announced Google Sync to sync your Google calendar with Outlook.  I have tried a few other solutions for this but this is by far the cleanest.  Simply download the program from http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955 , enter

Some New Features of Mozilla's Firefox 1.5 Beta

VanDamme Associates — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:10:03 GMT

Mozilla recently released its 1.5 Beta version of Firefox (aka Deer Park). It has some interesting features for developers that can be found here: Firefox 1.5 Beta for Developers

Restore Your Laptop's Youth

VanDamme Associates — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:09:07 GMT

Is your laptop running a bit sluggish lately? Developers, especially, tend to have quickly–degrading laptops due to heavy HDD usage, creating new files and constant work on projects. With all this hard work on your machine, performance hits are inevitable. Looking to restore the speed of your laptop's youth? Read

Don’t Phunk With My Code

VanDamme Associates — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:08:39 GMT

I found Eric at the office already when I came in today. He had his headphones on and didn't know I was here yet and I caught him singing a strangely familiar song out loud. I transcribed the lyrics below: Don’t Phunk With My Code No no no no, don’t phunk with my code. I wonder if I take you home, would you stil

Use Layout Preview to Quickly View a Report's Formatting

VanDamme Associates — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:08:01 GMT

Did you ever want to simply see the layout of a report without actually having to preview or run the report (especially if the underlying record set takes a long time to process)? Save time and use the Layout Preview instead of the Print Preview by opening the report in design view and select View->Layout Preview .

Poor Man's De-Dup

VanDamme Associates — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:07:58 GMT

Want an easy way to de-dup? For example, say you would like to quickly generate a table with one record for each unique email address: Create a make table query from the linked name table containing ID, FULL_NAME and EMAIL fields add criteria so that only records with email addresses are populated. Run the query

Ektron WebSearch and JavaScript Line Breaks

Patros Tom — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:14:01 GMT

If you're not seeing results displayed with Ektron's WebSearch control, it might be due to line breaks in the JavaScript dynamically generated by the control. Here's code that runs on the Page_Load event of the template page containing the WebSearch control. This is straight from the Ektron Developer's Manual, wit

Create a smart form by XML definition

Rist Matt — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:21:50 GMT

There are a couple of ways that you can create a smart form.  The standard way is to go into Ektron's Workarea, then the settings section, then smart form configurations and then use the editor to create your form. A second way to create a smart form is by XML definition.  Ektron provides the ability t

Access VBA Function to Check if Table Exists

VanDamme Sig — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:13:56 GMT

The new release of Communicate for iMIS has a feature that updates a SQL log file if it exists.  Communicate will have this table as an attached file if it does exists.  I wrote this function to determine if it is there (in the Access DB): Function TableExists(strTable As String) As Boolean ' Comments&n

Microsoft Access VBA Function to see if field exists in table

VanDamme Sig — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:13:53 GMT

We are adding support for Address_3 in Communicate for iMIS this week and I needed a function to determine if the field existed in the database.  Wrote this function: Option Compare Database Option Explicit Function FieldExists(strFieldName As String, strTableName As String) As Boolean ' Comments  &n