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Japan Disaster. Red Cross
Japan was hit by horrific earthquake and tsunami. If you’d like to help those affected visit Red Cross’ web-site
Web-design
UI prototypes and iPad/iPhone wireframes
Working on earlier design of the new system there are different ways in approaching UI design – from white board, favorite piece of napkin to modeling tools. Well, one can skeep it all together and jump into Visual Studio or Eclipse and start jamming together some nice forms. Experience shows again and again Read more
Delphi Technology
Hello again or returning to old self
Merry Christmas!!! It has been a while since my last post. Many things has changed – I have took on a new challenge changing the job and moving back to California. And wasn’t it a great decision! With new job I have moved away from Delphi. In fact, I probably Read more
Web-design
How to add key navigation to your web-site
This is probably an old topic which still raises here and there. Day ago while waiting for delayed flight on United, I was doing some follow up on the discussion about my Theme for Gallery 3 and was asked if I could add support for Keyboard navigation. In general, it is Read more
Web-design
PHP, MySQL and error “2006: MySQL server has gone away”
As a hobby I like to do little photography. Same time I do not like to give my photos to someone else to host, so I have my gallery. It runs on Menalto’s Gallery 3 engine – nice, open source, PHP based with MySQL back-end. Not my primary programming language, Read more
Crystal Reports
Crystal Reports 2010 – rumors are out
It has been two years since Crystal Reports 2008 was released. It feels old now – no support for new .Net technologies, no support for new export formats, etc. So question is – when we would see any of this? Accordingly to Blair Wheadon, Product Manager in the Volume Business Unit Read more
Fun stuff with SQL Server
SQL Server: Tables, Views and missing columns
When it comes to non-schema-bound-views (NSB View) it is important to remember that there is no schema bound between objects used in the view and metadata for a view. Let’s look at the following scenario: — Create Table_1 CREATE TABLE dbo.Table_1 (Col_A int NULL, Col_B numeric(18, 0) NULL, Col_C nvarchar(50) NULL) Read more