Thursday, September 20, 2007
Come on Microsoft
I'm a Microsoft guy, a fan, supporter whatever. I've been programing with Microsoft for Microsoft almost since I got my start. I want MS to do well so I do well, which is why their live search pisses me off. It's not very good in general, but when I see things like this, it makes it worse:




It's fixed now, but a search for "Your doing it wrong" shows 0 results on Live (Live Search?) and 69 Million on Google. I was using IE7 with Live as the default provider, and immediately switched.

Even now that live search returns results, they suck. Compare Live Vs Google


Posted By: Chris Burkhardt on September 20, 2007  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Saturday, March 24, 2007
SQL Server 2005 change password

It seems a new feature fo MSSQL 2005 is that any new accounts have to change their password at first logon. This is kind of a pain, since most people don't 'logon' to their accounts, at least for me because I do web programming. How is my website going to change its password?

Luckyliy I found a must change post with some tsql to do the trick:
ALTER LOGIN X WITH PASSWORD = 'Y'

That bit will unlock the account so you can use it.

I'm not a tsql guy, so maybe this is easy for some people, but for a guy just trying to store some information in a DB, this was a pain. It made a routine task of setting up a user into a 30 min hair tear.

Thanks to Peter for the tip.

Posted By: Chris Burkhardt on March 24, 2007  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Wednesday, February 28, 2007
vertical-align is for inline child elements

Maybe that is easy for some css gurus to remember, but I always have trouble getting it to work. Use the style vertical-align: top to align inline children elements of a block parent.

Here is a sample that should illustrate:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head >
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></meta>
    <title>Text Align Test</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div>
   
    <div style="height: 100px; width: 300px; background-color: teal; vertical-align: top;">
            <span style="background-color: red; font-size: 28px;">Align This</span>
            <span style="background-color: #00A4FF;">Inline</span><br />
            Next Line
    </div>
   
    <div style="height: 100px; width: 300px; background-color: teal;">
            <span style="background-color: red; font-size: 28px;">Align This</span>
            <span style="background-color: #00A4FF; vertical-align: top;">Inline</span><br />
            Next Line
    </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Posted By: Chris Burkhardt on February 28, 2007  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |