Ben Griswold on September 15th, 2006

“I appreciate the offer, but I simply don’t want one,” I said. “I know it will completely take over my life. I will wind up working around the clock and that’s not healthy. I need to turn work off some time. Truly, thanks, but no thanks…” As if I had never said a word, a [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 11th, 2006

Do you need to change the location of our IE favorites? Maybe move the favorites from your local machine to a network share? This is how: 1. Start Regedit 2. Go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders 3. Double click on Favorites in the right hand panel 4. Enter the new location 5. Click on the OK button [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 9th, 2006

There are numerous way one can manage and monitor their favorite blogs. Some choose to have an aggregator such as RSS Bandit running on their desktop. Others may use one of the many online services, such as Bloglines or NewsGator, which are available. Not surprisingly, Firefox provides another option: Live Bookmarks. With Live Bookmarks you [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 8th, 2006

I’ve been on a hunt for “the best blog editor” for some time now. I have tried out a handful of products, but I haven’t been completely happy with any of them yet. Perhaps I’m too picky… At first I focused on desktop blog editors only. This may have been foolish since WordPress provides it’s [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 7th, 2006

Perhaps you have noticed the JohnnyCoder icon appears in your address bar and favorites now? How was this done? I cut out Johnny’s right eye and pasted it into my favorite icon maker application. I then saved the .ico file to my site and added the following line of code to the Head of the [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 6th, 2006

After the success* of the Google AdSense experiment, I had to try my hand at incorporating a PayPal donation button on this site. Now, either I’m getting smarter or PayPal makes their implementation even easier than Google. Literally, ten minutes after my second experiment started, I had a functional donation button on the blog (note [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 5th, 2006

In T-SQL, there’s an easy way to concatenate multiple rows into a single string. If you simply need to munge the results together, here’s the down and dirty solution: use Northwind declare @CategoryList varchar(1000) set @CategoryList = ” select @CategoryList = @CategoryList + CategoryName from Categories select ‘Results = ‘ + @CategoryList ————————————————————————————————– Results = [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 4th, 2006

Undoubtedly, you have noticed the obnoxious Google Ads sprinkled about the site. I must explain. 1. Though nearly all legitimate bloggers have sites plastered with Ads, this is not my attempt to conform and become a real blogger overnight. 2. This is not a shameless attempt to make a few pennies each month. Granted, some [...]

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