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[Sitecheck] Snowbus.ca

2008-11-30 21:23:50

I'm not running this site, but I am working for the company at the moment, but I only started yesterday. I might take over the site, but nothing is for certain yet. There are a lot of things wrong with the site, besides the obvious. I'm not looking for so much the spelling or grammar mistakes. I'm looking for design/aesthetic comments/suggestions. Thanks so much guys! http://www.snowbus.ca

WordPress Help

2008-11-20 16:33:01

Ok so I know WordPress pretty well. But this issue is driving me nuts and figured I'd post here to see if someone here could help. Here is my situation. I have a website I'm doing for a customer. The main site itself is not WordPress site. It does however contain 4 WordPress blogs (all seperate installations per WP suggestion). What my customer wants is to have the most recent 4 posts from a particular blog show on the right side of the website no matter what section your in whether it's the regular site or one of the blogs. He just wants the post title to show not the whole post. Ok easy enough I thought. Flipped through various sections on the WP site and found out how to do this. I had to add some code to the non-WP site so it could interpret the WP code, etc. No problem. It's showing the top 4 post titles on the right side of each page. I go into Blog 1 and it's showing the same post titles like it should but then when I go into Blog 2, Blog 3, and Blog 4 the right side's titles change to the top 4 blog titles of THAT blog and not of Blog 1 like I want it to. Like I said it's showing Blog 1's post titles on the non-WP sites and on Blog 1's page itself but not on the other blogs. Any ideas how to fix this? This is the code I'm using to get it to display the top 4 post titles on the non-WP pages.

Meanwhile on the WP pages I have to use this code because my posts disappear and all I get is "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

This code is supposed to tell it to show posts from a specific category but of course since each blog is it's own installation it's showing THAT blog's post titles from THAT blog's category 3. I'm at such a loss and I've been posting on the WP support forums to no avail. If you are able to fix this I'd be eternally grateful to you. -- \m/(-_-)\m/ HEM Designs :: Inviting Images :: TMB

Domain Transferred, Site No Longer Loads

2008-12-02 01:59:26

I transferred another domain that was due to expire this month from DirectNIC to Namecheap, and, normally, the new domain registrar picks up smoothly on most of the transfers I've done this year, but I just transferred a site last week that no longer comes up after the transfer. I filed a ticket with Namecheap, and they tell me it's my computer; that the site comes up for them when they access it. I've tried loading the site on four different PCs, and none of them load it. So I am contemplating that it's my ISP. I wonder if anyone would be willing to verify the status of www.faawc.org and tell me if it comes up for you, or if you get an internet search engine, 404 error, or just an eternal wait and nothing? I have five other sites hosted on this server, 3 of which are Namecheap domains and I can access all of those without a problem. Is www.faawc.org really accessible to non AT&T customers, or is Namecheap giving me a snow job?

extjs: problem with

2008-11-30 13:21:33

body in html file must be empty. this code works correctly: ..Ext.onReady(function(){ var tabs = new Ext.TabPanel ({ activeTab: 0, items: [{ title: 'Tab 1', html: ' if I remove this item from tabPanel while initialization, the content of other tabs becomes empty', closable:true }] }); var addition = new Ext.Panel ({ id : 'addition', title : 'tab container', region : 'east', collapsible : true, margins : '3 3 3 0', cmargins : '3 3 3 3', items : tabs, split : true, width : 500 }); var rpan = new Ext.Panel ({ id : 'content', title : 'content', region : 'center', collapsible : true, margins : '3 3 3 0', cmargins : '3 3 3 3', html : 'empty' , tbar: [ { iconCls:'add-feed', text:'Add Tab', handler: function() { tabs.add ({ title : 'tab name', html : 'some content', closable : true }).show(); }, scope: this } ] }); var win = new Ext.Window({ title : 'Parent window', closable : true, width : 700, height : 350, x : 300, y : 100, layout : 'border', containerScroll: false, items : [rpan,addition] }); win.show(); }); But, if I remove this item 'Tab 1' from tabs while initialization, the content of new tabs becomes empty. I mean this tabs works incorrectly: .. var tabs = new Ext.TabPanel ({ activeTab: 0 });How can I add normal tabs without first tab in initialization of TabPanel?

Help creating XSD for this XML

2008-12-02 09:27:37

Can someone please help me create an appropriate XSD for this XML? Also, does what I have below appear to be formatted properly? 123456789 Fname M Lname 987654321 Fname M Lname Thanks. -- Insert wisdom here...

Site/Host check

2008-12-01 13:55:09

Can anyone reach http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/ or my web host http://www.sectorlink.com/ ? I can't load the sites up in a web browser and ping attempts tell me "could not find host." I tried calling them only to get one ring and then a busy signal. I sent off an e-mail but haven't gotten a reply yet. (Granted, it hasn't been that long since the e-mail was sent.) I'm getting nervous and having flashbacks of my disastrous dealings with Digi-Wave a few years ago. (They went offline for a week, claimed it was due to Code Red, then just vanished. I was able to back up my data. Many weren't so lucky.) -- -Jason Levine Support a children's charity. Buy a calendar and/or a photo book. Shooting For A Cause

Average Salaries of I.T. Professionals

2008-11-19 18:17:42

Using the following article as your guide: http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/compensation/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186500737 How many of you, in positions as related to the article, find yourselves making more or less than the amounts stated. I'm trying to gauge the industry as a whole with statistics from "real people". I took the job titles from each category that I perform one or more functions from (there were 5 applying to me), averaged them together, first seperately for each year, and then both years averaged together to come up with a dollar figure, at both manager and staff levels. I then took those numbers, and using a "percentage of my time spent on activities related to each title", figured the amounts for each category (equalling 100% of my time) and summed them together to reach an annual salary amount equivalent to the work being performed. What I found was that in my particular scenario, as a manager I am getting paid 29.4% less than what I should be, and in terms of staff level compensation I found that I am getting paid 8.66% less than I should be. And these are averages of averages from 2005 and 2006... My annual review is coming up, and before I go in with expectations of grandeur, I'd like to see where some of you are. For instance, there's no way in the world that I could ever expect a 29% increase let alone an 8% one in todays climate, but at the same time I need to gauge the salary levels of my peers and if you're all in the same boat I am, then simply not caring about the result of the review (which should be stellar) and looking for a new gig might be out of the question. ;) On the other hand, if I'm in a boat by myself and the grass is potentially greener elsewhere, then I may have some leverage to climb a little closer to what I am actually worth. I'm essentially in a "one man shop" so I figure I'm sort of in a hybrid role between manager and staff, and the categories that apply to me are: Enterprise application integration Data mining/warehouse Application development Database analysis/development Web design/development - FM

alexa.com alternatives?

2008-12-01 11:21:40

Can some one recommend an alexa stats alternative? Something that goes back 4 years, and compare 3 - 4 websites. doesn't' have to be 100% accurate just a general estimation.

php - insert result set to different table

2008-11-29 20:38:38

I have 2 tables, in 2 databases. I want to select data from table AA (on DB 1), then insert that to a temporary table B (on DB 2). Since they are in different DB's, is there an easy way to do this? I'm talking 10,000-20,000 rows so I'm just looking for some efficiency. -- I Smell Cures! -- Our Hope

uploading data to SQL Server 2005 timeout issues

2008-11-27 08:18:05

Hi Guys, I've got an access 97 back-end that I'm trying to replicate to a new remote SQL Server 2005 database. The data I'm working with isn't huge, one table is roughly 12k rows, the other is roughly 40k. My problem is this: I'm using SQLBULKCOPY to upload the data en masse, and it keeps timing out. I've set the bulkcopy's connection and command to timeout after 5 minutes, which should be more than enough time (I've uploaded a csv of the same data in 2 minutes, its only 8 megs for the 40k table.) I've got the 40k table to do batches of 5000 rows, and the 12k table to run in just one batch. Am I doing this wrong? I could iterate through my data one row at a time with insert commands, but that takes roughly 20 mins for the 12k table, and I didn't want to run the 40k in that manner -- it'd take all day! Please note I'm using a hosted server, so I have no control over the configuration of the server, just my code. Details: programming lang: VB.net 3.5 sp1 SQLServer: 2005 Net Connection: 1gb internal, 768u/3000d external method of copying data: SQLBULKCOPY from dataset, which is derived from an Access97 datastore. Please feel free to ask for more detail if you need it. fake edit: the code has now timed out after setting the command/connection timeout to 10 minutes. -- never apoligize for being who you are, and never respect anyone that says you should.