) send you a link to where to get at them.
Mark
Ross Clutterbuck ross.clutterb...@gmail.com 6/20/2009 7:03 PM
Hi guys
Does anybody have, or knows of anybody with, experience in working
with ESRI's ArcGIS geodatabase services and software? I've been
approached to work on a health tracking system
Hi guys
Does anybody have, or knows of anybody with, experience in working
with ESRI's ArcGIS geodatabase services and software? I've been
approached to work on a health tracking system using a lot of geodata
and so far ESRI's site isn't too helpful in taking somebody new to the
system through
MOU is not He-Man
I'm touched and honoured that after all these years I've stayed in the
group consciousness. It makes the closing of the list a little more
personal.
Thank you. That's eased a very bad day.
MOU
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
Quoting Cheryl D Wise cdw...@wiserways.com:
She may not be able to pass over the subscription list David, but I'm
sure anybody here who wants to continue can mail you off-list with their
interest and you sign them up, unless of course your system has a
subscription request so just give us the link.
Ross
David Precious wrote:
Linda
Hi list
I'm in over my head a little and running out of time with a job I have
on at the moment, so I'm looking for some help with certain aspects of it.
Part of the project is a basic scheduler/calendar system that will allow
back-end users to assign courses to the calendar from a list held
Hi list
I'm trying to write a simple calendar and booking system in PHP. What I
want to achieve is assigning a timeslot to any given course from a
database. The course would define its duration in days and using that
information allocate time in the calendar.
My PHP is rudimentary at best
Hi list
I'm working on a training feedback project whereby users will supply a
monthly report on how they feel their training is going and how well
they are meeting their personal proficiency targets.
The client would rather not rely on the users' memory to do these
reports and would like a
resources.
Cheers!
MOU
2009/1/14 David Precious dav...@preshweb.co.uk:
Ross Clutterbuck wrote:
The client would rather not rely on the users' memory to do these
reports and would like a reminder e-mail sent out automatically every
month.
How would I go about doing this? As a user can take
Steve:
I had to use SQL Server recently and I found it to be a pain with
things like this, especially when I have next-to-no experience with
it. I can't really suggest where to look to fix your issues directly,
but two things I found very useful in working out my own issues:
-- write a script in
Picking up something on Tim said, in my experience I've never needed
any CALs whatsoever. I've always had teh server serving some data
access or whatever and all connections to those services have either
been web access or similar generic calls from locally-run apps -
because I've never had any
Matt:
I'm always expanding my PHP knowledge - explain to me what the - does.
MOU
2008/11/5 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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Matthew,
It seems that Firefox is more forgiving than IE when it comes to little
things like closing slashes.
Cheers Matt
I was about to embark on some proper PHP OOP very soon anyway - thanks
for the heads-up!
MOU
2008/11/5 Chrome [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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From: Ross Clutterbuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 November 2008 10:08
To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com
Subject: Re
Sorry Chrome! GMail had stacked my threads up so it looked like a
response from Matt.
Ty!
2008/11/5 Chrome [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com
Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] PHP
And I don't know if it matters any more but personally I'd add a space
before the closing slash in your input tag and all similar self-closing
tags.
MOU
Matthew,
It seems that Firefox is more forgiving than IE when it comes to little
things like closing slashes. It's pretty amazing that an
Yes. I have been very negligent with my universe-mastery services :-P
Damn credit crunch gets everywhere!
2008/11/3 joseph harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi MOU,
[Hey, the universe isn't in such good shape; haven't been doing your job,
eh? ;-)]
I've gone back to 34sp for hosting, but even a
Joseph:
Not seen any decent free hosting but why search when you can get a
Personal 500 plan from 34sp.com for £18 a year? That's what £1.50 a
month?
MOU
2008/11/3 joseph harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am looking for a free host with no ads!
WWWToolz
Sounds to me that you'll have much better luck approaching this in a
much more secure way instead of trying to fudge through limited tools
available to you.
If this school is even partially serious about protecting its pupils
then they should be open to discussion and you can illustrate these
An example of one of the functions that populates the variables would
be good to see...
2008/10/17 Portman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
It has been too quiet on here for too long! :-)
Can you send a little more code? Maybe a few lines before and after this and
the print command code?
Riva
On
What's with the exclamation mark in the Doctype tag?
Is !DOCTYPE a typo purely in your post here or your source?
MOU
2008/9/16 Cheryl D Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It is nice to hear from Franni again since she is one of the few on here
I've met in person.
Cheryl D Wise
Sitting at Starbucks
Riva:
CSS properties would be found in an object's style property. The
JavaScript names are the same usually as the CSS names, only the
JavaScript equivalent of hyphenated names is to remove the hyphen and
capitalise the second word. The values you give them are the same as the
CSS values
Thanks Dave
I do like the radio button idea. I'll run both approaches past the
client to see what they'd find more intuitive. If we end up sticking
with the 3 list approach, can you make selections via Javascript?
MOU
2008/8/15 David Precious [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 08/15/2008 09:42 AM, David
Thanks for the comments Tim.
With a fresh pair of eyes this morning I quickly looked up the
Javascript methods for select boxes and had a play with selecting
all list items through code before submitting the form. Functionally
it works fine for my purposes (and budget) so I'm happy with this for
Me again
I'll tell you something, my brain has gone totally blank and I can't
figure out what I'm supposed to be doing.
In my qualifications project thingy, I have all my course units data
stored in my database (thanks Matt!) and want to put them all in a big
list so the user can select
Do you have a page we can look at?
OK I've put a rough demo up. Start at
http://thenvqcentre.co.uk/admin/quals.php to list all qualifications in
the system (there's only 1 so far for testing). From here either create
a new qualification to see the course units list fully populated or edit
/8/12 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting Ross Clutterbuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The main operation I need a hand with is deleting units from the units
table. Obviously, if I delete a unit I want it removed from all
qualifications that use it automatically. With that in mind
Hi List - been a while.
In a nutshell my knowledge of database design and operation is very
basic so I come to you for some advice on how best to set up a simple
database and how to carry out certain operations on it.
What I want to achieve is a database of qualifications that a user can
Thanks for the replies so far. It seems we're all saying use SSL over
HTTP to secure the connection for the entire session. Now, how do I
actually go about doing this?
MOU
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There's always something new to learn and this is the first time I've
really needed to secure a web session in a client project, and I'm
after a few pointers if I may...
Fundamentally, the project is an online questionnaire which stores
responses in a back-end database. That database can
This is what I thought Cheryl, but the main thing I'm after really is
pointers on how to do it. Is it just a case of programming my PHP +
MySQL app as normal but providing HTTPS addresses to my domain and
having an SSL certificate? Is it more complex than that?
MOU
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Deb:
Is the laptop set up to boot from the CD because regardless of what's
happened to the hard drive you shouldn't get this message if you're
successfully booting from the CD.
You'll need to get into the laptop's BIOS and change the boot settings
(or boot priority) to fire off the CD-ROM first.
Thanks Dan and Sheila
Now that I see where you're coming from I should be able to adapt it to
match a lot of the other things I want to change. No doubt I'll be back
when I hit problems!
MOU
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Web-compliant extension for JPEG images is .jpg
Change your code and file names to use a .jpg extension and that
should fix your problems.
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It's more of a power consumption issue than a performance issue when
you talk about filling up your RAM slots. There's only a negligible
performance difference when running 2x2GB against 4x1GB, but having 4
slots in your motherboard will draw a little more power if green
computing is
Sounds like Windows Installer has gone belly-up because some other
program has tinkered with it.
Try installing a whole new Windows Installer package:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=889482FC-5F56-4A38-B838-DE776FD4138Cdisplaylang=en
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It's Flash RAM instead of a traditional hard drive, which means
significantly faster I/O access and significantly reduced power
consumption (i.e. extends battery life).
In all honest however don't bother right now. Pure Flash drives are
too small and too expensive to be of any significant use at
Todd:
If it's your client who wants to put the address on the site then it
might be an idea to go over the risks with them and suggest the PHP
contact form. If it's you who wants to put it on (and we can't talk you
out of it lol) then you could try populating a clickable mail link using
a
I'd concur to a degree that an all-Flash site is probably not the way to
go for most clients, especially if you have to learn Flash as you go,
but on a personal level I would actively encourage you to dive and give
it a go because Flash is a long way away from the fancy intro and
overkill
If the images are pixelated it's more than likely you've had to scale up the
images to get them that big - what was your original source? Digital cameras
don't shoot as big as 5 x 7 300dpi so you've pretty much doubled (or even
tripled) the size of the file to fit the dimensions, which will cause
Dead simple Riva: just go into Page Setup on the File menu and change
the size to anything you want.
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I think the K.I.S.S. principle applies... avoiding redundancy.
After a very long night of overtime it's far too early in the morning to get
that comment...all I have now is God gave rock and rol to you
going round and round my head :-(
MOU
Tris:
We use MYOB Accounting over here and it looks pretty comprehensive and
simple to use. Not sure how much it costs though...http://www.myob.co.uk
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How about:
Specialist menu
Alternative menu
Pre-order menu
or if you're not a fan of repeating menu too much
Specialist catering
Event catering
For events
Truth be told if you have a navigation element dedicated to choices of
menus I'd drop the menu altogether to have something like (drawing
Hi Deb
I'd strongly recommend you convert your drive to NTFS. There are a number of
benefits to using NTFS, such as minimising wasted space when you save
data, data encryption and file system security. FAT32 is now seriously
outdated when working with large hard drives, especially if you're
Deb:
Firewire is Firewire at the end of the day - the different ends to the
cable are just to fit different sizes of devices (same as the mini USB2
connectors you get on cameras and phones - it's still USB2) so in theory
you should be OK.
In terms of speed, USB 2.0 is a little faster than
Deb
The key here first of all is listen to Windows's sound effects when you
plug in your external drive. Hot-swappable devices will trigger three
events in Windows (device connect, device disconnect and device error)
that have sounds attached.
Unless you have disabled or changed sounds,
Hi Amrit
I don't recognise the font. The reason it's not in the stylesheet is because
they've used an image replacement technique for the text in question,
switching out the relevant parts with a single-frame Flash movie with the
text layer selectable so you can still highlight and copy text.
Amrit:
It's not that you must use Flash to display it, they've used Flash to ensure
they can still offer the standard text-related operations a browser provides
(i.e. copy and paste). This is something you can't do with a standard image
replacement.
But if you're only planning on doing this once
Hi List
It seems we're awash with HTTP errors at the moment. I'm have a really
odd thing going on.
Click this link: http://www.themmen.co.uk/demos/rsa/content/flv/rsa-2.flv
Standard message yes? Thing is though the file actually exists.
Now go here:
Three options Joseph:
1: Turn on IE7's full interface to reinstate the old-school menu bars
and such to get it working like IE6 (because even though I hate myself
for saying this, IE7 is actually a lot better and moderately more secure
than IE6) and tell the young lady to live with it (as
Hi list
I've had a good Google and to be honest it's mostly Greek to me as I'm very
new to Microsoft Exchange (and generally proper client-server networking).
Does anybody know how, or can direct me to a plain English resource to
explain how, I can set up an Exchange mailbox to catch all
More than likely not to be honest. I know that anything bought from
iTunes Music Store can be licensed to 5 computers at a time but I don't
think that goes as far as 5 non-family members with a computer each.
I'm also sure that technically ripping a CD into iTunes has grey-area
legality and
Greetings and salutations
I have a few web projects in the pipeline that will require some form of
user log-in to access restricted content. I've done a few projects before
that have been successful but I'm unsure if my approach is the the best way
of doing things, or if I will be able to
Thanks Drew and Tris
I've googled a number of different approaches prior to posting here - given
that there were so many varied approaches I thought I'd shout here too for
some advice on real-world applications.
I'll go read some of the better-looking Google results and get back to you!
MOU
Hi Tris
I'm in Stoke-on-Trent and would be very happy to accept your gracious offer!
I would say grab my details from the website but I'm in the middle of a big
network upgrade so our server's offline so drop me a line offlist and I'll
give the postal address.
TY!
MOU
Send instant
I haven't tried it in about a year when I was trying to find a decent
newsreader for my Mac (OS X 10.4) It lasted less than a day but your
mileage
may vary.
That's the Redmond blood talking ;-)
But then again Thunderbird wasn't all that about a year ago...
MOU
Send instant messages to your
Thunderbird rocks. Enough said.
It was a touch fiddly to begin with setting up multiple e-mail accounts not
knowing if I wanted a single set of shared folders or sets for each account
but now it's just great!
It's internal junk mail filtering is also quick to train and so much easier
(and
Riva
In regards to body text I regularly have the same problems and I explain to
the client that my job isn't just to make the site look pretty, it's to make
the entire user experience a good one, which includes quality-checking the
text content too.
My compromise with them is that I fix
your and you're
there, their and they're
lose and loose
and my personal favourite: incorrect apostrophe's just like that, especially
when referring to plurals of acronyms.
LDMs, PS2s, PCs not LDM's PS2's and PC's - where is the ownership in that???
So add me to the cynical club lol. My
Hi Deb
By the sound of it, whatever you've installed recently requires the .NET
Framework to run so it's installed that as well. Looks like with .NET
Framework running, your computer needs an explicit login as exactly the
same thing happened to me when I installed Visual Studio .NET.
Once I
Don't bother with the dedicated server option as Mark's already said - if
you don't support it yourself it'll cost a fortune.
I personally would recommend 34sp.com despite the little niggle I had with
them recently. Have a look at their reseller package and see what you think.
As I'm based in
Thirded...if there is such a word... ;)
I prefer thriced ;)
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Matthew's raised a good point about cross-platform operability of the
background music. As a result, I'd suggest using Flash instead.
Have a 1x1 pixel Flash movie dropped in somewhere on the page that streams
in an external MP3 and export the Flash movie as low a version number as you
can (I
Riva
You could give your client a text file (or series of text files) to edit and
code the site to generate HTML from these files (if you're picky about
typography you can do some character swapping out as you process the files
to replace curly quotation marks and proper em and en dashes).
Which menus? They all seem to work OK over here...
MOU
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lol Joseph nothing exciting
Had a dedicated server with them for 2 years and we purchased a copy of
Windows 2000 Server through them to run on it. Well, as we'd paid for the OS
we felt it was our license, so when we terminated the contract we requested
them to send the discs over.
After
Joseph:
I'd get it in writing/e-mail that you own the license before you purchase
the software and begin the contract, then make the request for media at the
very latest when you issue the month's termination notice.
It'd be better to leave the discs with them until you terminate the
I second Joseph with 34sp.com
Just don't try to cancel a dedicated server account with them and request
the copy of the OS you bought...
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I've been asked to quote on a web site which can be viewed in multiple
languages (4 I think) however I can't give them a price if I don't know what
I'm doing! So, I come to your collective brains on how best to achieve this.
This client already has a site based out of Belgium for a
Riva
If they're insistent on using the photo then why not try the Windows
Vista-style design? I think Microsoft have hired some half-decent designers
as their Vista site is actually really nice visually.
For your project I'm referring specifically to the Vista start page:
(forgot to say this)
I know it's lifted directly from the Windows Vista site, but I think it
manages to work in the photo very well, and in my personal opinion this is
really the only way you're going to be able to work in a solid photo as a
background and still maintain a
lol Riva I already have a client like that not sure I could handle another
one!
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If I were you I'd politely decline to continue the project on teh grounds
that it is incresing difficult and costly for you to operate with such
internal conflict on what this project is supposed to entail. Their
decision-making process is beyond your scope as a developer and until such
I found myself unsubscribed after having nothing for a long time, but since
resubscribing it's all quiet!
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If your tests fire and run the script directly then you have nothing wrong
with your script. The fault, therefore, will lay with your client's
computer - either they have a pop-up blocker enabled or they have scripting
disabled.
That would be my first port of call to work this out.
How about
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Can't remember the exact terminology as I'm up to my neck in XML and really
crappy parsers but I think after a domain lapses there is a certain period
(detagged I think) where the domain is shut off from the net but is still
tied to its existing owner allowing them to renew (just in case they
Hi List
Swamped with other things at the moment so I don't have a lot of Google-ing
time so I thought I'd shout out here first.
In a nutshell, can I use PHP to create a resized/cropped copy of an existing
image file? I'd like to create thumbnails from larger images uploaded to the
site
Thanks Dan!
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Hi list - calling all IIS experts!
I'm learning as I go with server configuration so bear with me while I
stumble through my explanations and problems.
I'm having a bit of a pickle configuring my SMTP server to do what I want it
to do. My SMTP server must serve 2 roles:
. to receive e-mail
It turns out that the computer that they purchased is not compatible
with the SBC DSL that they use. Is there some way to fix this?
There sure is...tell Dell to stop lying and make good on the support options
they're supposed to offer. DSL is in no way reliant on knowing anything
about your
Any ideas on how to fix this or on what she should do?
Basic advice Riva is tell her not to buy a Dell!
Not sure what the custom PC market is like outside of the UK but over here
you can buy good quality machines without paying the premiums you do for
branded PCs and support from
Hi
So, does anyone on the list know of software that can do
There's a lot of things out there that can do what you want, but how many of
them are going to be useful? Adobe After Effects can export as Flash and has
some fantastic 3D tools to give this thing some depth, but After Effects is
Dear List
I've been asked for some advice on how best to set up a donations facility
for a local charity's website. I've not had any real experience in the
payment-side of eCommerce so I was wondering if you fine chaps and chapettes
could give me a few pointers. From what I gather they're
Amrit:
There's a wealth of information inside the Windows XP Help Centre telling
you how to do it - I would strongly recommend reading through it first.
However, in a nutshell you will need Windows Messenger running and logged in
on both machines (NOT MSN Messenger - it's supposed to work fine
OK why did I read this as Remote Assistance?
Dumbass MOU
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Any creative industrial designer types out there want to design the next
PC and maybe win $125,000 from Microsoft?
Yeah I'll give it a shot:
Dual 2.5GHz G5
8Gb RAM
nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
Dual 30 HD Flat Panels
OSX 10.4
Oh hang on that's a Mac...
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Oh, you are evil! eg
I do try Deb, I do try :P
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Google casemod imac gets 850 hits
Google case mod imac gets 40,000+ hits
Yes I know it does, but none of those results help me much.
Don't want to sound ungrateful, but do you think I'd post wildly OT if my
Google searches (of which I've already read most of the result returned by
those two
I'll agree and disagree
Ty Cheryl
I'm only half grumpy swine then :P
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Three words:
masking tape
Krylon
Considering I'm gonna try and get a 6 cathode in there too I don't want to
kill the see-through plastic, but I'm certainly entertaining the idea of
just spraying the bugger.
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Dear all
Forgive the wildly OT post here but you're all a multi-talented bunch so I
thought I'd pick your brains while I'm Google-less on this topic.
I've got my hands on an old iMac DV+ in Ruby that I'm using for some
cross-platform development. However, being the arty type I'm not too keen on
Deb:
You 150% sure you've got your Windows Volume control turned all the way up?
You want your Wave output set to maximum. It's likely you're getting your
CDs playing fine because you've got your CD-ROM linked to your sound card
direct via a cable (don't need them any more because Windows XP
'Internet' should remain capitalized, and is in those style guides
by all accounts those same style guides are now lower-casing internet. dunno
why
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Linda:
I did stumble upon a Javascript that read query
strings in URLs with no back-end processing, but I
don't have access to my work machine at the moment.
If I can dig it out then in theory you could pass
query strings (like newpage.html?prevpage=index) and
then read it off so you can trace
Linda:
With CD distribution you do have the luxury of allowing a certain bloat to
your code as you don't have to worry about download times etc. so in that
regard you might as well just hard code your breadcrumbs. This of course
does make updating a nightmare especially if your CD-based site is
Diane:
Sounds like the File Allocation Table might have gone the way of the Dodo
but for the life of me I can't remember if it's possible to rebuild a FAT
without killing the data.
One thing I would suggest is try booting into pure DOS and see if you can
read off the disk. I have a utility
Diane Cheryl
This doesn't sound to me like a Master Boot Record failure as the drive
cannot be read when slaved under a different OS. But Diane if you want to
try it, from a pure DOS command line try fdisk /mbr on the drive in question
to rebuild the Master Boot Record without damaging the
Without sounding completely dumb (i.e. I've not had time to read up on it
yet) I would assume there's a reason these CAPTCHA test images are distorted
instead of being plainly clear? Bots can read text inside images now can
they? Little buggers...
I suppose spambots are a lot like internet
Dominique:
I personally have a lib folder in which I have multiple subfolders for
each library item I use: CSS, images, Javascript etc. That way it's all
bundled together neatly.
I do however sometimes have subfolders for these things for each area of a
site for media specific only to that
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