D3 - Recompiling Code
December 30th, 2006The following is some great information posted to the Raining Data web forum by Robert Burke, their new Technical Support Director. I’ve posted it here verbatim for your benefit.
Solution for Weird Communications Issues
December 25th, 2006I’ve had some recent experience with communications failures and I found the solution was to turn off a setting on my Network Interface Card (NIC) that I never knew existed. This lead me to some personal thoughts on how technicans resolve problems.
Explaining Usenet
December 21st, 2006Once in a while, people will ask questions in a Usenet forum that have nothing to do with the actual forum topic. One of our colleagues asked about the nature of Usenet itself in our comp.databases.pick newsgroup. I’ve posted a lot of info like this in CDP in the past but it seems to get lost in the ether, so now I’m posting it here.
Switching Web Hosting Providers
December 18th, 2006The last several months have been hell as far as getting and sending email, and for a while dynamic pages on this site (like this blog) were returning server errors to our visitors. I finally changed my host for email and I’m about to switch HTTP services as well. Here’s the story.
The Dreaded Back Button - Part 2
December 17th, 2006From the "give um an inch" department, it seems people aren’t happy with eliminating the back button from the browser. Eliminating all of the browser buttons wasn’t good enough either. No, the very first request was "now can we get rid of the X button in the corner that closes the application? Sigh - OK, the answer is yes. 
DesignBais Tip - Goodbye plain text forms
December 9th, 2006How’d you like to get complex text and image formatting into your DesignBais forms? How’d you like to edit that text with a WYSIWYG editor, without having to see any HTML at all? Might your users be interested in storing formatted data rather than plain old text - including images?
Running scripts from your desktop
November 26th, 2006You can easily find answers elsewhere to the security problem documented here, but since one of my recent posts might lead you into the problem I thought I’d provide the solution.
Outlook Appointments from MV
November 18th, 2006I have code that updates the Outlook Calendar from MV apps. I decided to hook it up with DesignBais. This is just too cool.
Free macros clean Outlook email Subject text
November 18th, 2006Over a year ago I posted some freeware for Microsoft Outlook which eliminates junk out of email Subject lines. It really helps when searching and sorting. I update it periodically and post the changes for whomever is interested. I just made a number of small changes recently, so I decided to tell you a little about it here and point you to the latest update.
The Dreaded Back Button
November 15th, 2006Once in a while this question comes up about what to do when the user hits the Back button in a browser app. Well, the italian in me says "break their fingers"
, but most of my colleagues aren’t italian, so here’s a solution for the rest of you.