Tech4Him – Technology with Integrity

Yup, I learned this week just how well Drupal can fly. Well, maybe not measured in feet above the earth but certainly in terms of response time. Come take a look at a new setup were are testing out.

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Popularity: 7% [?]

Ok. Today I am officially bummed. What rock have I been hiding under? What email did I miss? I mean, come on. Here I am working fingers to the bone and I don’t hear about DrupalCamp Dallas?

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Popularity: 1% [?]

Yup, we did it. We used the automatic upgrade function in Wordpress to upgrade to Wordpress 2.8.3 and ended up with a white screen of death (WSOD) shortly after. Bummer.

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Popularity: 2% [?]

SQL Log Rescue – Undo for SQL Server.

Came across this product again today to help with a particular need. I’ve used Red Gate products before at another employer and loved them. However, I never realized the SQL LogRescue product. On top of that, it is a free tool. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 4% [?]

Photo by bas:ilSo, we have a website that displays images from an external source based upon a URL. For various reasons, sometimes the external source does not have a valid image for the request. In order not to show a broken image to the use, we need to validate that the image is valid.

Thanks to Google (NOT Bing. haha) we found a great little approach that was quickly placed into a Drupal template file.

if (@GetImageSize("http://www.testdomain.com/testimage.gif")) {
  echo "image exists";
} else {
  echo "image does not exist";
}

And according to the site, if you do not have GD installed you can try this code:

if (@fclose(@fopen("http://www.testdomain.com/testimage.gif", "r"))) {
  echo "image exists";
} else {
  echo "image does not exist";
}

We took the concept of the GetImageSize function to handily render web thumb shots from an external service, only if a valid image exists. This way we don’t show broken images to those Internet Explorer users.

via Developer Blog » Check if external image exists.

Popularity: 5% [?]

Data validation for datetime parameter in SSRS.

Came across this piece of code for ensuring the end date comes after the start date.  Just what I was about to write but a quick Google search saved a bit of time. Yay! Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 16% [?]

A use case has been presented where users wish to receive email notification of certain records matching various criteria. Additionally, the notification subscription should only notify the user if records exist matching the criteria. The notification via subscriptions should only happen once for any given record. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 21% [?]

I didn’t write the job post below but it spells out most of what is being looked for. Location is in Arlington, Texas (Dallas, Fort Worth area). No contract services need apply. This is for a full time staff position only. Drupal is the primary framework for two externally facing sites. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 6% [?]