Fix Elegant Themes Minimal Dropdown Navigation Appearing Behind Slider

Posted by on Mar 23, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

If you use the built in WordPress menu options with your Minimal themes from Elegant Themes, you may notice that your dropdowns will appear behind your home page slider content. Luckily, a small change fixes this issue. Unfortunately, it requires editing the theme’s style.css file, which means you will need to make this change each time you update your theme. Add this snippet of CSS to...

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Haystack: an IndexTank client for CodeIgniter 2.0+

Posted by on Sep 29, 2011 in Blog, Code | 1 comment

Update: The IndexTank service is no longer in operation. They were bought by LinkedIn and have closed their API and services to all existing and new customers. However, the good folks at IndexTank have open sourced their entire platform, and several great companies have been created to continue to service IndexTank customers. They are all completely compatible with my Haystack library as well as...

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View the SQL code of a Stored Procedure in SQL Server Management Studio

Posted by on Oct 11, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

I’m working on overhauling a large project management application for a client that I inherited from a previous developer.  Part of the application will produce various reports based on data pulled from a SQL Server database.  The query that pulls this data is a Stored Procedure in the database. Rather than try to reverse engineer the SQL query, I can simply run a SQL query of my own to...

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Exchange 2007 Dynamic Distribution Groups with Custom Filters

Posted by on Oct 8, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

Recently I was experimenting with Exchange 2007 Dynamic Distribution Groups for a client.  I have the Active Directory profiles of each mailbox-enabled user filled out so that I can dynamically create and set their Outlook profiles automatically.  I wanted to use some of this information that I already store about each user to create distribution groups on the fly so that I don’t have to...

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Backup Windows SharePoint Services 3 using command line utilities

Posted by on Sep 11, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

I recently had a SharePoint server in a RAID 1 configuration lose one of its hard drives.  Since the server was approaching it’s hard drive storage limitations anyway, I decided to install 2 new larger drives rather than rebuild the current array.  An added benefit of this approach is that I can archive the drive we’re using now and have a fairly failsafe recovery point. The...

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Allow non administrative users of Windows XP to adjust power settings

Posted by on Aug 17, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

I’m not sure why Microsoft thinks that normal users shouldn’t be able to adjust their own power settings – especially laptop users – but they do.  Here is how to grant the appropriate permission to the power settings while keeping everything else locked down. This walk through assumes that you are logged onto the machine as the non administrative user. Step 1:  Launch...

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