Archive for September, 2007

Happy Programmer’s Day!

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 13 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: General

// Compile with Visual C# 2005.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Text;
namespace HappyProgrammersDay
{
class Program
{
static void Main (string [] args)
{
DateTime dtNow = DateTime.Now;
Calendar calDay = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.Calendar;
if (calDay.GetDayOfYear (dtNow) [...]

MS-DOS 5 Upgrade Commercial

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 13 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Humour, Videos

If you’re thinking about creating a commercial for your software and want a good example of how not to do it, take a look at the following video. Its hard to believe that someone actually paid to produce this, but it must have seemed like a good idea at the time.

Bad News for Dot Com Moguls: Ad Blocking

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 12 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Business

I remember back when VCR’s were common, a device could be purchased for it that would prevent commercials from being recorded to your tape. It operated on the principle that commercial advertising was louder than the program you were recording. When the volume increased, the VCR stopped recording until the volume went back to normal. [...]

Zend Core: PHP Makes It Into Prime Time

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 09 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Programming

PHP has been steadily growing in usage since the start of the millennium. It has overtaken Perl as the primary programming language for web applications and will likely dominate this area for many years to come. The language is becoming increasingly common in the corporate world in spite of the initial suspicion many had over [...]

Fixing Database Error 1054 in Fireboard

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 05 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Tech Tips

I found another problem with Fireboard. After I installed it, I went to the Forum Administration option in the Fireboard Control Panel and got the following error:


DB function failed with error number 1054
Unknown column ‘g.group_id’ in ‘on clause’ SQL=SELECT a.*, a.name AS category, u.name AS editor, g.name AS groupname, h.name AS admingroup FROM jos_fb_categories AS [...]

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