Website contact form
A standard addition to any website is some kind of ability to contact the website owners. Whilst many have opted…
PowerShell script: copying PAT folders
Here is my second attempt at copying folders using Microsoft PowerShell scripting. The task I need to accomplish is to…
HTML entities
Sometimes you will need to use some less than ordinary characters in the content of your webpages. This is where…
PowerShell script to copy folders using a CSV listing
Many of the computer labs are set up as follows: the learners log into a Windows server and a script…
Backing up a MySQL database using PHP’s system() & MySQL’s mysqldump
The PHP system() function is used to execute an external program. Because MySQL already has a built-in tool for creating…
How to use PHP To Backup & Restore a MySQL Database Table
This is how to backup and restore a MySQL table using a PHP script. Please note: this is an old…
Compare Plugin for Notepad++
Anyone who has spent any time working on a dev team will have some war stories to tell about code…
Prevent Pinterest pinning
If you have the Pinterest plug-in enabled in your browser as I do, the image below will display the bright…
ODBC MySQL Data connection in Excel
After swatting up on connecting QlikView to a MySQL database, I used the knowledge gained to create a similar set-up,…
Hello World! Excel VBA
I find Visual Basic for Applications most useful in Excel. I have created many small enhancements to make my larger…