WordPress just released the wonderful news that every self hosted WordPress site out there is about to get more real-time thanks to some new behind the scenes developments.
WordPress announced on its official blog that it has turned on support for PubSubHubbub, yeah that’s a mouth full, a move that will get RSS content of WordPress [...]
With my latest project TweSMS I decided to go the json route with the twitter API. Now if you have worked with the twitter API before you would know that twitter has some serious big id values thus it was important to store these values in big int fields in the database.
I first discovered the [...]
Google organises the world’s information and makes it accessible to all. Information also comes in the shape of geographical data, local business listings and user generated maps, and for this reason Google would like to invite you to the Google Maps South Africa launch.
Google is now giving Capetonians the oppertunity to take part in [...]
Being part of CTWUG we are alway on the lookout for new services to run on our network that could prove usefull to the users of the CTWUG network.
The latest idea we got was to provide users with a local copy of the Wikipedia website, this would enable CTWUG users to view wikipedia content at [...]
Lately I have noticed that when I leave comments sometimes the readers leaving comments aswell has no idea that I am the author of the post. This made me realise that I had to find a way of showing that I am the author of the posts in the comments section.
After some consideration I decided [...]
Thanks to my pal Dawie from davisdmit.za.net for discovering this nice method for hiding your email from spam harvesting bots.
Chances are that if you run a website that you would like to display your email address on your site for people to be able to contact you, problem is that as soon as you add [...]
So want to have some fun with Google Images? Try the following.
Go to http://images.google.co.za
Search for any image you like
After search is complete enter the follow into you addressbar:
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI= document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i<DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position=’absolute’; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval(‘A()’,5); void(0)
Press enter and enjoy the [...]
So after some struggling with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 not allowing me to run a script that drops a database and recreates it again because there is still active connections on the database I came up with this solution.
USE master
GO
ALTER DATABASE database name
SET OFFLINE WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
ALTER DATABASE database name
SET ONLINE
