Drupal – Customizing View filters programatically
So it happened last week that I created a View in Drupal 7 and I wanted to customize conditions (aka Filters) in a way that I thought cannot be done with the Views interface (I later discovered I was wrong and D7 Views UI could have been used to express the filters in...
ExtJs – Slider component with ability to add items dynamically
Sometime earlier, I wrote a blog post demonstrating a Ticker component for ExtJs to which items can be added dynamically (here). The client for whom I originally wrote that Ticker component changed the specification recently, now requesting the ability for the ticker...
Drupal – Defining plugins for Views Wizards
It has been the first time since I started blogging somewhere in 2009 that a full calendar month (of April 2012) passed without me writing any blog in that month. It feels good to be back to the blogging world.To jump on to the topic of the present blog post, I...
ExtJs 3 – Enabling multiple file uploads using TextField
Well I just committed code on one of my projects enabling multiple file uploads using an ExtJs 3 TextField. And it appeared to me I can write a quick blog post about it.So without wasting too much time, I will allow you to straightaway get your hands dirty with...
DotNetNuke 6 – Creating DotNetNuke styled forms
DotNetNuke 5 and 6 – Removing users permanently in code
I returned to serious DotNetNuke development this year after a gap of more than a couple of years probably. And I must say, I did not see much changes as far as the public API of DotNetNuke is concerned. Yes, there have been good UI changes, some new capabilities but...
Sql Server – Database names seem to be case-sensitive for Query Notification feature
In one of our Enterprise web application, we rely on Sql Server's Service Broker backed Query Notification feature a lot. Basically the database of that application is exposed to many other client-specific apps, and our app needs to respond to changes being made in...
ASP.NET MVC 4 – Convert an existing Web Application Project to Web Api project
I do not have much time to provide the background, suffice it should be to say that I decided to adopt ASP.NET 4.0 MVC Web Api in a major way today after being in evaluation mode for some days (4.0 MVC was still in Beta as I wrote this).And so I needed to convert my...
A simple VB like InputBox/Prompt function for PowerShell
In the last few weeks, I have written a good number of PowerShell scripts that accept input from the user in the form of traditional prompt boxes (e.g. in one situation, I needed the user to enter Sql connection string to execute custom actions against a database)....
Windows – Task Scheduler can start programs at system startup or user logon
Some weeks ago, I had installed BitVise's WinSSHD server on my primary SVN server machine to enable secure remote access. After the installation, I was noticing that WinSSHD's Control Panel would start up automatically when I login to the machine.This was not desired...
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