google margin

Is it just me or has google added a margin around their search results? An ID of ‘gsr’ on the body tag appears to apply ‘margin: 3px 8px;” bumping the results out at each side! Clocked this on Tuesday night and thought it was a mistake with my setup or someone at google had screwed [...]

Script to set IE – Internet Explorer homepage

Stuck in a restrictive environment where you can’t alter your homepage settings? Check out the below WSH shell script to alter your homepage in Internet Explorer via the registry:
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject(”WScript.Shell”)
‘ home page URL
StartPage = “http://www.yaduk.co.uk”
WSHShell.RegWrite “HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMainStart Page”, StartPage
WSHShell.RegWrite “HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMainStart Page”, StartPage

dp.SyntaxHighlighter.ClipboardSwf = ‘http://www.yaduk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-code-snippet/js/clipboard.swf’;
dp.SyntaxHighlighter.HighlightAll(’code’);

XHR Connector for Internet Explorer

Below is a great code snippet to process XML dynamically through an XMLHttpRequest (XHR) request. From this further XSLT processing can be applied dynamically utilising Internet Explorers “fragment” transformations.
/* XHR Connector */
XMLReq = function() {
this.adapter = false;
/*@cc_on @*/
/*@if (@_jscript_version >= 5)
try {
this.adapter = new ActiveXObject(”Msxml2.XMLHTTP”);
} catch (e) {
try {
this.adapter = new ActiveXObject(”Microsoft.XMLHTTP”);
} catch (E) {
this.adapter [...]

Business Strategies, Information Systems and People: Holistic Approach

Information Architecture and Information Retrieval
Intranet information retrieval requires more often than not implicit end-user understanding to the nature and location of information sought since architecturally information organically mirrors organisational layout rather than information ‘typing’. Semantic linkage and intelligible meta data unfortunately take a back seat. As a result it is commonplace for “Intranet” users to consider [...]

Excel Split Firstname Lastname 2 Columns

Excellent post in the MSDN microsoft.public.excel.programming community regarding the splitting of a firstname and lastname into two seperate columns.  The honours go to someone called “Bam”.
Last Name
=IF(ISERROR(LEFT(B2,FIND(”,”,B2,1)-1)),RIGHT(B2,LEN(B2)-(FIND(” “,B2,1))),LEFT(B2,FIND(”,”,B2,1)-1))
First Name
=IF(ISERROR(RIGHT(B1,LEN(B1)-(FIND(”,”,B1,1)+1))),LEFT(B1,FIND(” “,B1,1)+1-1),RIGHT(B1,LEN(B1)-(FIND(”,”,B1,1)+1)))

Hyperion Essbase – Excel – Auto-connect

A few folk have asked how to just connect automatically to Essbase from Excel VBA. Please find below a simple VBA sub stripped back to show this. Use the following to initialise with your own details in place.
Call initialise(”xxx”,”xxx”,”xxx”,”xxx”,”xxx”)
Declare Function EssMenuVRetrieve Lib “ESSEXCLN.XLL” () As Long
Declare Function EssMenuVConnect Lib “ESSEXCLN.XLL” () As Long
Declare Function EssVConnect [...]

JavaScript GET URL Parameter GUP JQuery

Having used GUP from Netlobo http://www.netlobo.com/comments/url_query_string_javascript for some time to pull back parameters from the URL in JavaScript for fiddling with, I decided to create a handy JQuery extension for reuse.
Extending this further with the gpn section to get all parameters, which is also from their website, you’ll find within the below code the handy gpnv [...]

Ben Mullay – Shetland Photography

Ben Mullay is continually looking to create eye-catching and striking images to convey what is viewed through the lens. Ben’s home village of Bigton, Shetland, is the site of the famous St Ninian’s Isle, reputably the largest tombolo in Europe.
 
XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
Hosted by yadUKHosting
goto site http://www.benmullay.com/

Business benefit of ensuring fit for purpose presentation layer

“What exactly is the business benefit of doing that?”, a cry oft heard.
Well, what exact business benefit is there for not ensuring the presentation layer is ‘fit for purpose’? To build a “web” based application meeting all specific requirements and policies in regards scalability and the like – then ignoring its output “just because” it [...]

Photoshop – The memory could not be “written” error

Bizarrely I couldn’t figure out why my version of Photoshop CS3 was playing up and dumping me out with a dialog box proclaiming that memory at some segment couldn’t be referenced and giving me a “The memory could no be ‘written’” error.
Well, it’s definitely not the fact that my profile was stuffed though refreshing it [...]