Tech4Him – Technology with Integrity

I don’t know about you but one thing I don’t bring up on this blog is politics. Sticky subject. I will say that whether you like Obama or not, as a Christian, I will be praying for him and his administration.

1I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— 2for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 3This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:1-4

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Spent a little more time today researching more workflow options. Since the last post on this subject, a new use case has come up with significantly lesser requirements but a more critical need.

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Here is a list of some interesting posts I’ve come across today.

• 10 Useful RSS Tricks and Hacks for WordPress – Smashing magazine puts together a good list of WordPress tips to allow some useful RSS modifications. PHP snippets included.
• wpSEO – WordPress SEO optimization plugin. Interestingly this is a for purchase plugin.
• Top WordPress 2.7 Tips, Hacks, Plugins & Resources – A quick hit list for those new to WordPress 2.7
• WordPress Tutorial: Category Trick for WP 2.7 – Interesting idea for styling posts differently based upon categories. Could be used for site segmentation visually.
• Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area – Good article that may just show you something you didn’t already know about managing WordPress 2.7

Blessings to you.

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Okay, so I’ve already been asked about the script changes as I alluded to in my post yesterday. Well, I’ve succumbed to the pressure. 

Here is a copy of the script contents with full attributions remaining from the original script. Again, this scripts seems to work fine from Drupal 5 or 6 importing to WordPress 2.1. Following the import we THEN upgraded WordPress to 2.7.

Download: drupal2wordpress.sql.txt

Hope this helps you.

Blessings.

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It is no surprise that you now get a blog post about how we quickly migrated our previous blog posts from Drupal 6.9 to WordPress 2.7. While our method was quick and dirty, someone could create a good set of scripts by following this through. Read the rest of this entry »

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Okay gang. We are still working out the details for some permanent 301 redirects for the existing posts, but from now on you can find our blog at our new address of http://blog.tech4him.com. Read the rest of this entry »

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Since about Confluence version 2.9 we’ve had problems when attempting to use the MS Word Doc Import feature of the Office Connector plugin. The process would fail with a Java NullPointerException, something like “java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.regex.Matcher.getTextLength(Unknown Source)”. We’ve done the upgrades to 2.10 and 2.10.1 hoping this would be resolved but to no avail.

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Yes, okay, call me a dolt for having to take five minutes to find this but I’ve seen this question asked so many places I figured I’d throw it up here.

In Visual Studio 2008 when working on a SQL Server Reporting Services report, you may find that you want to change the order in which the parameters are listed to the end user. Or perhaps you are using unnamed parameters, such as with ODBC, and need to change the order for token replacement in your query. Well in 2008 this is not where you expected it to be if coming from 2005.

To start with, see if you have the Report Data region showing. If not, go to the toolbar and click View –> Report Data as shown below.

Now, find the parameters section and expand it. Pick a parameter that needs re-ordering. Click and highlight the parameter. Now a little further up you will see a set of up and down arrows. Use these to move the parameter, re-order the list of parameters.

I know, too simple right? Well, sometimes the obvious things are easily overlooked.

Blessings to you!

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