Google Toolbar for Iceweasel

The computer I am currently working on has a relatively fresh Debian install on it. And I am still in the process of ‘moving in’. Today, I got fed up with not having the Google Toolbar installed; must have the spellchecker. I went to install the thing, completely oblivious that I do not have Firefox. [...]

Framing Gallery2 Into WordPress

Here we go on another adventure in the world of websites and code that I know nothing about. One of the major features that I wanted to add to this site was to have my gallery embedded or at least appear to be embedded. There is a plug-in called WPG2 which does exactly that – [...]

WordPress and Adding Line Breaks – a Hack

1-22-2012: It’s been four years since I made this original post and this solution appears to still be simplest one out there. I did a little looking around on the Internets and have seen all sorts of different attempts; plug-ins, rewriting style sheets, and long complicated lines of code. I’m a bit surprised that this [...]

MYSQL & ODBC Connections, Revisited

So we thought we had our databsae problem licked. (See MYSQL & ODBC Connections)

After setting the primary key we tested the database and were able to connect, access the tables and edit the data. Perfect. I installed the connector on each of the six workstations. Four of these stations were read only and worked [...]

MYSQL & ODBC Connections

A client needed to have all of his employees be able to access a company database containing client and job information. He originally wanted us to purchase and install Microsoft Access. This would have cost approximately $1600 by the time all of the software and licenses were purchased. Instead we offered to find an alternate [...]