Great tutorials on IIS7 Configuration!

http://dotnetslackers.com/projects/LearnIIS7/

The wisdom dispensed by Chinese Fortune Cookies you get in America is typically useless. Today, however, a co-worker dropped one off at my desk (since he didn't want it), and just out of curiosity, I cracked it open to read its message. This one turned out to be a pretty one one, in my opinion:

Maxim for life: "You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."

"...Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse..."

—Water For Elephants

//=====================================================================================

// JAVASCRIPT FUNCTION LIBRARY FOR FIELD VALIDATION (FV)...
//=====================================================================================

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// BEGIN HELPER FUNCTIONS - These functions do not display any alert messages, they simply return values or boleans...
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

/*Formats a JavaScript date object to a MM/DD/YYYY format string*/
function formatDate(dtValue)
{
	var strFormattedDate;
	/*JavaScript uses 0 to 11 for months, so add 1*/
	var strMonth = new String(dtValue.getMonth() + 1);
	var strDay = new String(dtValue.getDate());
	var strYear = new String(dtValue.getFullYear());
	if(strMonth.length == 1)
	{
		strMonth = '0' + strMonth;
	}
	if(strDay.length == 1)
	{
		strDay = '0' + strDay;
	}
	strFormattedDate =  strMonth + '/' + strDay + '/' + strYear;
	return strFormattedDate;
}

/*Returns the number of decimal places after the period in a number string*/
function getDecimalPlaces(theValue)
{		
	var myExp = /./;
	if(myExp.exec(theValue))
	{
		var right = RegExp.rightContext;
		return right.length;
	}
	return 0;
}

/* Checks to see if one value is between two other values [Accepts integers, floats, and strings] */
function isBetween(theValue, low, high)
{
	var result = false;
	if(theValue >= low && theValue <= high)
	{
		result = true;
	}
	return result;
}

/* Accepts an array.  Checks whether the first element is found in the rest of the elements. */
function isIn(arrValues)
{
	var result = false;
	for(var x=1; x largest)
		{
			largest = arguments[k];
		}
	}
	return largest;
}

// Function returns the minimal value if a given list...
function smallestValue()
{
	var smallest = arguments[0];
	for(var k = 1; k < arguments.length; k++)
	{
		if(arguments[k] < smallest)
		{
			smallest = arguments[k];
		}
	}
	return smallest;
}
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// END OF HELPER FUNCTIONS - These functions do not display any alert messages, they simply return values or boleans...
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// BEGIN FIELD VALIDATION FUNCTIONS
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

/* Checks to see if the date in question is between a lower and an upper bound 
   Can be used to replace old fv.date_future:  use CF function dateAdd("m", # of months, visit_date)
   to determine upper bound */
function dateRange(txtField, strMinDate, strMaxDate)
{
	if(txtField.value.length > 0)
	{
		if(formatDateField(txtField))
		{
			var dtValue = new Date(txtField.value);
			var dtMinDate = new Date(strMinDate);
			var dtMaxDate = new Date(strMaxDate);		
			if(!isBetween(dtValue, dtMinDate, dtMaxDate))
			{
				raiseErrorOnForm(txtField);
				alert('Invalid date.  Date should be between ' + formatDate(dtMinDate) + ' and ' + formatDate(dtMaxDate));
				txtField.focus();
				txtField.select();
			}
		}
	}
}

function formatDateField(txtField)
{
	var strTemp = txtField.value;
	var intLength = strTemp.length;
	if(intLength > 0)
	{
		// If there are 8 characters (01012003), format MM/DD/YYYY
		if(intLength == 8)
		{
			txtField.value = strTemp.substr(0,2) + "/" + strTemp.substr(2,2) + "/" + strTemp.substr(4,4);
		}
		// If there are 7 characters (1012003), format 0M/DD/YYYY
		else if(intLength == 7)
		{
			txtField.value = "0" + strTemp.substr(0,1) + "/" + strTemp.substr(1,2) + "/" + strTemp.substr(3,4);
		}
		// If there are 9 characters (1/01/2003), format 0M/DD/YYYY
		else if(intLength == 9)
		{
			txtField.value = "0" + strTemp;
		}
		// Check if date is valid
		if(!isDateValid(txtField.value))
		{
			alert('This is not a valid date.');
			txtField.focus();
			txtField.select();
			return false;
		}
		else
		{
			return true;
		}
	}
}

/*Check if the value of the field is in the range between the low and high integer value*/
function inRange(txtField, intLow, intHigh)
{
	if(txtField.value.length > 0)
	{	
		if((!isBetween(txtField.value, intLow, intHigh) || !isInt(txtField.value)))
		{
			alert('This field should be between ' + intLow + ' and ' + intHigh + ' inclusive, with no decimals.');
			txtField.focus();
			txtField.select();
			return false;
		}
	}
	return true; // Means that there were no problems...
}
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// END FIELD VALIDATION FUNCTIONS
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is prety cool...

My issue was that I had all my tables created using the 'victor3434' schema name. I wanted, instead, to have all of them under the dbo schema. I did a little google search and found a posting with the following SQL query which selects all of your tables and concatenates a string for each table that you then need to execute against the database to perform the change.

SELECT

'ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER ' + TABLE_SCHEMA + '.' + TABLE_NAME

FROM

INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA =

'victor3434'

In my case, this select statement generated the following strings which I could then easily execute to finish the job.

ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER victor3434.event_EVT
ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER victor3434.eventType_ETY
ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER victor3434.pages_PAG
ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER victor3434.pagesLog
ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER victor3434.photoGalleries_PGL
ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER victor3434.photoGalleryItems_PGI
ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER victor3434.templates_TMP
ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER victor3434.adminUsers_ADU
ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER victor3434.calendarItem_CAI

NICE!!!

My Fried Is Brain Today!!!

Ticket Master Link:

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"Free Boat Ride with Cement Shoe Purchase!!!"

Yo Vinny, what do you say we get outta here?

Say you have an orders table that has a column names Cheese of type numeric(5,4) and you want ot change the type of the column

to be numeric(5,2)

ALTER TABLE tblOrders_ORD

ALTER COLUMN Cheese NUMERIC(5,2)

You want to add three new NULLABLE columns to a table:

ALTER TABLE tblOrders_ORD

ADD

Beer VARCHAR(100 NULL),

Cheese VARCHAR(100) NULL,

Tomato NUMERIC(5,2 NULL)

GO

You want to drop a column called Tomato:

ALTER TABLE tblOrders_ORD

DROP COLUMN Tomato

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON databsename.* TO username@IPaddressOfMachineToconnectFrom IDENTIFIED BY 'usersPassword'

To manage mySQL, use sqlYog...FREE and Portable!!!

http://code.google.com/p/sqlyog/downloads/list

Group Summary

Welcome to your group summary. Nelnet groups loans according to features to help organize your account. Typically, these features include lender name, guarantor, interest rate, and subsidy benefits.

Name: Sanchez, Victor

Data displayed as of: 04/26/2011

@ECHO off
CLS
TITLE = LDPC - ECLIPSE WORK BENCH
SET copyName=victor3434.bat
SET success=success.txt
COPY testss.bat %copyName% > error.txt
rem IF NOT ERRORLEVEL == 0 (NOTEPAD error.txt)
IF ERRORLEVEL == 0 (NOTEPAD %copyName%)
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL == 0 (NOTEPAD error.txt)
PAUSE
EXIT

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Download free Android Apps, Games, Themes
Android Download Center
Free Android Games, Android apps, Android Wallpapers, Android Themes - AndroidSoft4u
Blackdroid.net - Android Files Repository
Blackdroid barebones list with no graphics

http://www.nuclearpants.com/JAVASCRIPT/animationBG/index.html

Cam Studio:

Great tool to easily create training or documentation videos. Utility allows you to capture a video of your actions on your computer screen...and best of all, it's free!!!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/

"An everyday moment can turn romantic at any time..."

-Cialis

O'Reilly Website

http://oreilly.com/perl/excerpts/system-admin-with-perl/ten-minute-ldap-utorial.html

Norma passed her final exam necessary to earn her Master's degree in reading, very cool!!!

CONGRATULATIONS Norma, we are all very proud of your hard work!!!

Check out this very cool technology: HTML5 websockets and java-based server for free under GNU licence...

http://code.google.com/p/jwebsocket/

Chat Demo >>

This is a great little tool. You submit an image, and their program turs it into an ASCII version of it.

http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/

Here's another good one for TEXT generation in ASCII...

http://patorjk.com/software/taag/

and YET another...

http://www.degraeve.com/img2txt.php

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510253

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php?type=title

Go to Countdown Page >>

Congratulations Tom. Good luck to you on your next adventure.

NPR: X Price Marks Fuel Efficiency Spot For Future Cars>>

Pretty cool stuff. This little car can sit 4 and weights less than 1000 lbs. And amazinglly has a fuel economy of over 100 miles per gallon!!!

Interesting new company: Using NASA-based technology to generate GREEN energy...perhaps the future of power generation in the world...This company was featured in 60 minutes. Some big companies are already testing the technology, including the likes of Google, Ebay, etc...

The company's website:

http://www.bloomenergy.com/

60 Minutes story:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6228923n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

Watch the full episode. See more NOVA.

Testing Roll Call Applications

Admin:
http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/legis/RC/index.cfm

1. Content shifted to left: http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/legis/RC/index.cfm

2. Content shifted to left: http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/legis/RC/rc_tool.cfm

3. Content shifted to left: http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/rc_extract.cfm

Raw Data Extract:
http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/rc_extract.cfm

4. Error:

http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/rc_extract_action.cfm

But this may be strictly a data range issue, rather than a problem introduced by the new environment!!!

Data Imports:
http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/DataImports/index.cfm3

5. link to documentation slightly shifted outside of box while processing a file...

PUBLIC SITES:
http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/Public/rc_view_date.cfm?rc_body=H

http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/Public/rc_view_date.cfm?rc_body=S

Chekc with Shane on these last two since he might have noticed something subtle. Also, make

sure to read his comments in the MKS: 15800

Wikipedia entry for Daniel Schorr:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Schorr

Memorial Special from NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128565997&sc=nl&cc=es-20100725

Chuy is 37 today, Congratulations??? Happy Birthday Chuy!

Today was a bad day. Please don't take our picture!

REM - Bad Day

Just when you think you got life all figured out, it turns around and changes the rules on you. Life is short; enjoy it while you can.

Today I completed day 50! Good deal!

Today is day #37 of my Incremental Push-ups Program. Since the beginning of this year, my resolution was, as it is for billions of people across the world, to get in better shape. To that end, I decided to implement my incremental push-up program.

Here's how it works: On day one, I did 10; on the second day, 11 push-ups and son on. I give myself all day to complete my commitment of push-ups. As long as i get them done, I don't care how or when. In fact, there's been a couple of days when I made up push-ups from the previous day. No big deal. So far, I have not missed a single push-up, and I'm proud to say that today, my commitment is 37.

It might not seem like much, but those push up sare starting to add up. But since it is a very gradual program, your body has enough time to adjust. I

Victor Sanchez and I approve of this message!

According ot the machine, I burned 1000 calories today.

A very efficient hunger-awareness program!!!

The full details of how the program escape me now, but I'll try to describe it as best I remember...

When I was in college (Allegheny College in Meadville, PA) they once had a very interesting hunger-awareness program that was very effective. Via e-mail message, students were invited to participate in a special 'alternate lunch program' for one day. If you wanted to participate, you would give up your dinner meal for a ticket. This special ticket had a number on it and could be taken to the hunger-awareness dinner event. At the event, peole were divided into 3 social classes (Rich, Middle Class, Poor) using a type of random lottery system. Here's how the class-assignment worked:

The event was a simple dinner where the 3 social classes dinned together, but the disbribution of food was similar to that in real life. The few rich sat on fancy, well decorated tables where the food was abundant and fresh. The rich were waited on and treated with respect. Their every need was taken care of by waiters.

Members of the Middle Class were allowed to sit on tables and chairs, but they were a bit older and not well decorated. Their food seemed less fresh and less abundant, and were not waited on by anyone. They essentially had to serve themselves.

Finally, members of the Poor class were instructed to sit on the floor. The food they were allowed to have was of poor quality and much less of it despite the fact that they were the largest group. Before they could begin to eat, they had to wait for the other two groups to finish. The poor were not allowed to initiate conversation with the rich and could only speak to them if spoken to.

The program, for me, was particularly powerful because it clearly illustrated the differences and unfairness in the world. The random assignment into the different social classes was important to illustrate that as individuals, were don't get to choose which life we are born into. Having all 3 classes dine side-by-side also made the differences between rich and poor more evident and impossible to avoid. We might not see it as much in real life because we don't all dine together, but when you are next to each other, it is especially powerful. Of those who participated, some belonged to a higher social class in real life than they ended up in during the event, and this was especially eye-opening for them as they were treated, perhaps for the first time, like everyone else without any special treatment.