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Archive for January, 2007

      

I done been certified

While most who know me will testify that I’m certifiable, I now have paperwork to prove it. That’s right, ladies and gentleman, you are in the presence (in the abstract) of a “Microsoft Certified Business Management Solutions Specialist” — try to fit that on your business card.
While not really a priority in my book, [...]

Friday, January 26th, 2007. Posted in Dynamics AX | No Comments »>

Wordpress 2.1

I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1, mostly to avoid doing some work I should probably should be doing. Smooth as silk. And some nice improvements. Most notably a tabbed interface for the “write post” window that lets you switch back and forth from WYSIWYG and code editing. Oh, and thankfully the default [...]

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007. Posted in WordPress | No Comments »>

Ajaxload

Useful animated icon generator.

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007. Posted in HTML | No Comments »>

Dynamics AX (Axapta) String class

I’ve posted a utility String class I wrote years ago for Axapta. I’ve also compiled and used it in Dynamics AX v4. It extends the rather limited built-in string functions with a number of other common string manipulations and comparisons like “endsWith”, “replace”, “split”, etc.

Friday, January 12th, 2007. Posted in Dynamics AX | 5 Comments »>

PyCon down the street

I think I’m going to try to attend at least some of PyCon, the Python conference, next month. I haven’t been doing a lot with Python lately, but it’s right down the street — and there’s a lot of coverage of Django, which interests me.

Thursday, January 11th, 2007. Posted in Python | No Comments »>

Steve Job show

My favorite show’s on today. Whohoo!

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007. Posted in Apple | 2 Comments »>

Baby name wizard

This is a fun bit of data visualization, using flash.

Friday, January 5th, 2007. Posted in Misc | No Comments »>

Interesting Microsoft Word XMLNode selection behavior

Since I have not yet passed out from beating my head against the wall, I’d thought I’d report an interesting finding regarding the Microsoft Word object model. The object model includes methods to access content based on embedded XML, but you don’t really get a DOM to manipulate those nodes so you have to [...]

Friday, January 5th, 2007. Posted in .NET, C#, OpenXML | No Comments »>