Say you have a development environment setup using SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and your customer has a SQL Server 2000 database accessible only via ODBC and you can only run a DB import via a script. How would you do it? Easy you might think just run msdbdump.exe on the command line, […]
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ISO 3166 Country List
August 21, 2007 – 4:26 pm
Here is a small script that I put together to grab the XML list from the ISO website and convert it into an SQL statement. The idea is that the script can be used to just obtain a list for web projects or it can be setup to run periodically to make sure that […]
Geographic Calculations in PHP
December 10, 2006 – 12:27 am
Recently I have been involved with a project that maps yachts during an ocean race, which got me thinking about basic calculations and conversions that would be useful to fellow developers. I envisage this being useful in projects leveraging Google or Yahoo maps. For the moment the class performs the following functions:
Calculate the […]
Flickering Images
March 17, 2006 – 3:06 pm
I have been asked numerous times in the past how I create this effect in some forum signatures so now I am releasing the code so you can see. It could equally be used as a background image in CSS (like the photo of the excavator above) so you could have a circulating series […]
