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How to encode accents in an ascii sql file
Sometimes when you want to send a sql file to someone and it contains accents things go … bad. To circumvent this in oracle sql files you can escape these with compose(unistr(‘CHARACTER + ACCENT’)). This way your sql file remains … Continue reading
Internet Explorer Platform Preview randomness is biased
After installing Internet Explorer Platform Preview 1.9.7745.6019 the first thing I did was check out its javascript performance on my own scripts. It turns out to have a very wierd output for Math.random. Test your browsers Math.random() function and see … Continue reading
2M08 Silverlight
A hands-on workshop about Silverlight 2.0. The many MacBooks that are available are probably set up for the Air session this afternoon. Our speaker informs us "We wont be using those", quickly followed by "Silverlight is a cross platform …". … Continue reading
Parsing plist files in asp with Microsoft.XMLDOM
Plist files are more and more ubiquitous. Apple uses them for its configuration files and we use them to describe exercise content. They aren’t very pleasant to read for humans, but that doesn’t mean computers dislike reading them. So I … Continue reading
Google reader in Opera 9.5
Temporarily fixing google reader for Opera 9.5 requires following code: #entries { min-height: 500px; } To do this go to Site Preferences > Display > My style sheet. Update: Google seems to have fixed it.
News
Silverlight 1.0 is released and it doesn’t work on Mac OS prior to version 10.4.8, Linux, Windows 2000 and the Opera browser. Flash Player 9 reached 90% penetration. Maybe thanks to being truly cross platform? The iPod touch has a … Continue reading
Multi-Mania 2007
I’m really looking forward to Multi-Mania tomorrow. See you there!
Removing rows in Excel
Today I had to remove all rows in an excel sheet containing #N/A in the third cell. The only catch is that there are thousands and thousands of these rows and I need to be able to repeat this action.
MsSql lacks describe statement
Describe, or desc in short, is one of the most valuable commands when trying to understand a database structure. MsSql lacks this feature so you have to write it yourself.
Hello world!
Hi, I’m Kristof Neirynck, application developer at Indie Group and this is my blog.