How to Recreate QuickLaunch Toolbar in Windows 7
If you’re like me, upon using Windows 7 for the first time, you were actively impressed by all of the new features Windows 7 has to offer, from the new aesthetically more pleasing interface to the more functional improvements such as window docking and the versatile gadgets toolbar. However in my case, after all the excitement faded away […]
How to setup QoS for your Shoretel Phones – Get Rid of the Static!
Call Quality issues on VOiP phones can be hard to troubleshoot, and even harder to fix. It doesn’t help when everyone notices it and complains about it to you regularly. Luckily this guide will teach you everything you need to know to get your ShoreTel phones sounding great. Most likely what is happening when you […]
Tips, hints, and just general know-how
Greetings knowledge seekers: This month’s blog comes to you in the form of some good ol’ fashioned web info. In the next few months, the generation of gaming is about to take a drastic leap forward. Ever since the Wii was released, all consoles have been making a move towards more hands-on gameplay. […]
Text-labelled bars: beyond the default
By default, Tableau won’t label a bar. The axis is enough for viewers. However, a lot of our users say to us, “We like the bar, but we want to see the numbers as well”. Rather than reproduce a bar chart as a table, labelling the bars is the obvious way to go. Tableau provides […]
DuckDuckGo
I have been switching back and forth between google and DuckDuckGo for searching for a while now. If you have never heard of it, it’s a search engine, kind of like Google. Yes, how original. It’s created by a Hacker News individual as his startup. he has been at a while now and has an […]
Creating hidden fields using Drupal Form API
Recently I was trying to create a hidden field on a form I’ve been working with and couldn’t find anything in the Drupal documentation that explained how to create a hidden form. The solution is actually quite simple. In this case I was using the hidden field to store a primary key value. $form[‘form_group’][‘form_name’] = […]
Adding a UNC or network path to Windows 7 Libraries
Windows libraries are a neat feature. They allow you to centralize what would normally be a ton of shortcuts to folders. Plus, since Libraries show up in all Save/Save As dialogs, it makes accessing those shortcuts very simple. The problem is that if you try and add a UNC that is not indexed by your computer, […]
ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks and SSL
There appears to be much trouble and confusion using ColdFusion and scheduled tasks over SSL. If you Google search or check out the official Adobe forums there are numbers of threads mentioning this issue, with no process to fix or resolve this issue. The number one suggestion and most popular solution seemed to be setting […]
Avoiding Insanity or How To Clean Your Blackberry Trackball
After a long and terribly difficult day, all I wanted was to play a little bit of Texas Hold’em on my Blackberry. Normally my biggest problem is being bad at Texas Hold’em, but tonight my problem was not being able to scroll to the right in order to open the game. After about 45 minutes […]
How to properly create a tinyint column with Drupal Schema API
Recently, I’ve been building a custom module to use on a customer’s site. When I tried to install it I got the following error message: user warning: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘NOT […]
