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Mikes Links Monday 6/30/08

mikedopp — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:59:00 GMT

So I was emailed(Wait how’d the internets get my address?) a question last week. The question was:<summarized>I like your web site it seems kinda interesting. However what is up with the incoherent Mikes Links Monday feature? The links and pictures are all over the place and what is with animated gifs? Have you not heard of flash or the new silverlight? Please stop making the internets an ugly place. </summarized>

I agree the Mikes Links Monday are a hodge podge of ideas that just fall out. Especially the pictures. The pictures are found all over the crazy cloud of data we all call the internet. Yes I have heard of the great little technologies of flash as well as silverlight. However animated gifs save bandwidth and just well are awesome (another term from the 80’s). Some one told me that my web site was too corporate at one time so I thought making it look like a myspace page at least once a week would make me more popular. I try to keep a bit of sarcasm and a lighter feeling with my links monday so that I do not become another link blog. So if I offend please send me your ip address as I will sniff for ip addresses onload (or when you hit my page) and write special css (cascading style sheets (you know the code that makes your website pretty?)) for your ip address that will hopefully make your experience here a joyful one. As always please send me your email as long as it isn’t another pharmacy ad or something that can make a special part of me larger (my brain). Thanks for the criticism I welcome the fun as well as the ddos attacks I get once and a while. Your friend MikeDopp <-The guy who owns the domain(internets).

My new motto: I surf the web so you don’t have to… (does that not sound familiar?)

Links of love:

Css Tab Designer. Designer did you here me....?

managing robots access to your website.. Don’t worry wall-e is safe.

Word clouds and what the shapes mean.

Dive into Python (not the snake and well how could you... thats just funny you thought...) Language

Vector political posters and you(get your candidate on...)

Some people ask where do you get all your links? Not here.

Pi Viewer just in case you need help with this.

Create a Ajax Contact form with javascript. he he

Web Developer great resources

Turn off Nag windows update alert

Click consultants make sure in quality. Ok lets just take a step back and ask ourselfs why?

Tips and tricks to using the VI editor. You can’t find it on windows unless...

Microsofts supreme search blunders. I would call it optimus supreme blunder.

Who is digging you really? Is it all just made up or....?

Wallpaper um thats just it wallpaper without the glue.

Highslide Viewer Javascript picture viewer

15 more tools to help design your web faster.

Iron comic. You have to watch it to understand.

Adjust your tcp downloads.

A special treat:

The sad Trombone.

and

Instant Rimshot

Multilievel Dropdwown menu

How old is the internets?

Noise River as an addon to friend feed.

Flash develeopment with shading.

Your License. for music and such.

Of course more next week.

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Using video to explain help desk fun

mikedopp — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:22:00 GMT

I was doing some reminiscing and found some of my favorite videos from the past. Besides every blogger needs the obligatory tech support video page so here is mine. Thanks Youtube.

Middle ages Tech Support:

Star Wars Help Desk:

Arnold Schwarzenegger calls HP Tech Support:

Tech Support:

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Mikes Links Monday 6/23/08

mikedopp — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:50:00 GMT

Sad news today. George Carlin Died of Heart Failure. He brought us the 7 deadly words. Most of what the FCC use as their rules for over the air.

Been fighting with Spyware for better over a week now. Have 4 workstations and 3 servers with a nasty little trojan. I had the name of it. However I have lost my notes on it. Publish it later. Sorry.

So the final nail in the coffin for Yahoo. Multiple Chairmen and presidents are running not walking away. Looks like the shareholders will file class action lawsuit. The mystery still remains: What is Yahoo hiding that they were afraid that Microsoft would see? Looks like it might not matter. A few futurists are planning for the Apple take over of both Microsoft and Google (Applications as well as media). Microsoft discounts Apple as the pretty little machine maker not much else.

Almost forgot the Woot off this past week was the Crappiest Crap ever and I mean just the crap that was for sell made it hard to follow. No word yet on the Bag of Crap contents.

Link Love:

Audio Visualizer (wasn’t this introduced around media player 6?)

Who needs a computer science degree?

Seen below is a live dj. He may not be spinning now. Please check back later.

Jared of Subway fame Rest in Peace? Dead? Wha?

21 laws of computer programming

Hottest green eco friendly gadgets

Logo Design Tutorials

Please Please someone learn how to network right.

Apple Google and You!

At Mail. Where are you? At Mail. <-lame but seriously take a look.

CSS Karma

Fine Icons

Flip your text and drive Joe Levi Nuts

Google Cheat Sheet

Grey Hat Security

Help File generator

How to Block Cellphone Spam

How to create a web site to look like outlook? um why?

How to grab an expiring domain?

IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake

Japanese Phrases

Ad Design from Makeeda.

Handy Latin Phrases

Having fun mixing photoshop

Quad Tree design. um.

Querying browseer history

25 greatest high tech pranks

Dialectizer need a new dialect get one here.

Twitter Hall of Shame

This web site is down. Doh! Please be warned has some content not suitable for youngsters(Violence and language)

Troubleshooting laptop

Turn Firefox into a assault kit

twitterfountain

twitter snooze

Your mood your license

What paypal wont tell you

TV Guide for fun

Web Resource Depot

You dont know that programmig language

Have a great week. Oh yes I did remember firefox 3.0 came out.

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Some of my Favorite Windows Mobile Applications.

mikedopp — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:04:00 GMT

So I collect some mobile applications for my Pocket PC/Phone. Some good mostly lame or beta. Here is a bunch of Applications good or bad that I have sitting on my Pocket PC phone right now.

Fring a Application that promises the world at least it maps to all your messenger and social sites for you.

Last.FM mobile Very Beta buy plays tunes over my data connection. *Warning can cost lots of money unless you have a unlimited data plan.

Pocket Gravity Not sure where I picked this one up. Fun using Geometry.

Pocket Sand Once again a favorite application that I can give the kids to play with for hours of interest.

ceTwit A pocket pc version of twitter. Not my favorite how ever it works well.

Tiny Twitter My favorite mobile twitter application

Kevtris A tetris type application.

I add more all the time.

You can Download Here.

Also have a look at My Today Screen for more applications.

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My obsession with mini Lego Land.

mikedopp — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:38:00 GMT

So in our trip to Lego Land 3 weeks ago I discovered Lego Land Minitures. This was my favorite part of Lego Land Here is the Pictures I took.

As you can tell if you have been to Lego Land that there is more. Unfortunately I was asked to move onto the kid rides. I would pay the 50dollars again just to sit for hours looking at this.

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Download Day for Firefox 3

mikedopp — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:53:00 GMT

Firefox by far is the best browser. Be sure to help the cause.

Go Download

Support Firefox by pledging your download support

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Just got two more new certifications.

mikedopp — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:25:00 GMT

As you all know or now know I am a System Administrator at night. So I had to go through some serious tests to get these. Really! The Certifications are also known as “poke in the eye” or “put out the lights” on the Server,Workstation,Desktop or even Laptop. To get these Certifications you need to learn simple things like windows key –> U – S for shutdown or –R for Restart. This works on all Microsoft OS’s except for Vista and Server 2008. I am awaiting the special training on those.

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What does a Web Site cost? A break down.

mikedopp — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:13:00 GMT

People constantly ask: Will you build me a site as a favor? The answer is no unless your my wife or my mom. Some business’s think that a web developer or designer are gifted and it is just easy to put something on the web. To them I say if you want free go create a site on blogger or on myspace.com.

Still the question remains: How much should a site cost?

Remember a developer can develop and a designer well designs and you will want it (the site) maintained. These costs are not usually included unless you can talk a developer to do so (includes more money).

Like the businesses they represent, web sites are not all created equal and serve various purposes, therefore they can vary greatly in cost as the level of design and functionality increases and becomes more complex to suit your company’s needs.

>$2000 A basic designed web site, acting primarily as an online brochure to merely establish a necessary presence online to answer the questions ‘do you exist?’, ‘are you professional?’ and ‘what do you do?’, can be done for a mere market average of $2000. This web site will not allow you to interact with your audience (social networking, blog), transact business directly through your site (ecommerce), or enable you to manipulate and update the pages and content within your site without hiring a web programmer/designer to do it for you(Content Management System does enable this for more $$$).

But the site will serve to help brand and market your company, showcase your products and services and inspire sales as a lead generating tool.

Unfortunately, the design of your web site will be template at such low costs. This means that your site probably mirrors that of other sites on the web with similar design and structure.

$3000-$7000 Custom designed web sites, with all the aesthetic beauty that you can possibly envision, costs a market average of $5000. These sites are not very functional but are extraordinarily pretty and all design elements are created and designed specifically for your site and tailored to your market needs. These sites will still not enable audience interactivity, ecommerce, or content management. The sites cost is all due to the number of hours it takes to create beauty within the pages of your site.

The site will serve the same necessary purposes that a basic designed web site will but will be far more aesthetically pleasing and custom to your businesses desires.

-Not recommended. The reason is you do not want a site that is just pretty. Why pay for pretty without functionality?

$7000- $12,000 Depending on the level of aesthetic design that is requested Content Management System (CMS) web sites will run at a market average of $10,000. These web sites are created with both functionality and design in mind, as you will receive both custom art design and mid level functionality including the ability to manage and update all content, images, and text contained within the pages of your site (infinite number of pages possible). With a CMS capable web site, your site will have endless possibilities as a pluggable, flexible web application capable of adding additional features as you desire.

These web sites are built with the idea that you will have a significant number of changes, additions or updates to be made to your site in the near future. Instead of being charged hourly rates to make such changes, a CMS system enables you to do a majority of the basic additions without prior coding or web designing knowledge.

Social interactivity with your site visitors is possible with a site of this caliber, as a BLOG will be present within your site enabling you to place posts of content that you believe is relevant and desired by your audience. Your audience can choose to respond to your blog posts and each others comments allowing for 2 dimensional interaction between you, your audience, and within your audience.

Some ecommerce and real state listing sites can be created within this price range depending upon level of functionality and design.

Also, sites of this caliber have varying prices with regard to design elements. These sites do have custom design work, but more expensive elements like Flash Art creation will affect pricing.

$12,000- $100,000+< If you are looking for advance functionality including social networking, blogging, ecommerce, or any other web application topped off with the markets leading design elements, you should expect to pay a market average of $25,000! Like I said before, some ecommerce and web applicable sites can be created for less, while most successful ventures are created for much more.

Sites that have fallen in this price range include Facebook.com, Twitter.com and Digg.com to name only a few.

A site within this price range will be built and hand coded from scratch. That means your site is unlike any other and requires the attention and expertise of an experienced web application developer(s) and web site designer(s). A site that falls into this category requires months of market analysis, software research, consulting, database design and implementation, software development and integration, site quality assurance and testing. This is the mother load and it is priced accordingly.

I know what you are thinking, ‘who knew it was so expensive?’ And the only answer I can give is that web design and creation is like any other craft or trade and requires a high level of knowledge and expertise. Furthermore, with the rapid rate that technology and the internet is constantly changing, the gap is beginning to seriously widen between web amateurs and professionals. Can you still get a web site for $500? Sure you can, but it will not display and operate like a professionally designed web site will and it will be as ineffective and unsuccessful as the individual who designed it.

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The Truth about Being a Developer.

mikedopp — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:54:00 GMT

Enough said.

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MS SQL Scripts I Use constantly

mikedopp — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:41:00 GMT

Truncating All Transaction Logs in SQL Server

Thanks to Jeremy Jameson SQL Guru

DROP TABLE #CommandQueue

CREATE TABLE #CommandQueue
(
    ID INT IDENTITY ( 1, 1 )
    , SqlStatement VARCHAR(1000)
)

INSERT INTO #CommandQueue
(
    SqlStatement
)
SELECT
    'BACKUP LOG [' + name + '] WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY'
FROM
    sys.databases
WHERE
    name NOT IN ( 'master', 'model', 'msdb', 'tempdb' )

DECLARE @id INT

SELECT @id = MIN(ID)
FROM #CommandQueue

WHILE @id IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
    DECLARE @sqlStatement VARCHAR(1000)
    
    SELECT
        @sqlStatement = SqlStatement
    FROM
        #CommandQueue
    WHERE
        ID = @id

    PRINT 'Executing ''' + @sqlStatement + '''...'

    EXEC (@sqlStatement)

    DELETE FROM #CommandQueue
    WHERE ID = @id

    SELECT @id = MIN(ID)
    FROM #CommandQueue
END

Shrinking All Database Files in SQL Server

Thanks to Jeremy Jameson SQL Guru

DROP TABLE #CommandQueue

CREATE TABLE #CommandQueue
(
    ID INT IDENTITY ( 1, 1 )
    , SqlStatement VARCHAR(1000)
)

INSERT INTO    #CommandQueue
(
    SqlStatement
)
SELECT
    'USE [' + A.name + '] DBCC SHRINKFILE (N''' + B.name + ''' , 1)'
FROM
    sys.databases A
    INNER JOIN sys.master_files B
    ON A.database_id = B.database_id
WHERE
    A.name NOT IN ( 'master', 'model', 'msdb', 'tempdb' )

DECLARE @id INT

SELECT @id = MIN(ID)
FROM #CommandQueue

WHILE @id IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
    DECLARE @sqlStatement VARCHAR(1000)
    
    SELECT
        @sqlStatement = SqlStatement
    FROM
        #CommandQueue
    WHERE
        ID = @id

    PRINT 'Executing ''' + @sqlStatement + '''...'

    EXEC (@sqlStatement)

    DELETE FROM #CommandQueue
    WHERE ID = @id

    SELECT @id = MIN(ID)
    FROM #CommandQueue
END

Backup All your SQL Databases with one query.

DECLARE @DBName varchar(255)

DECLARE @DATABASES_Fetch int

DECLARE DATABASES_CURSOR CURSOR FOR
    select
        DATABASE_NAME   = db_name(s_mf.database_id)
    from
        sys.master_files s_mf
    where
       -- ONLINE
        s_mf.state = 0

-- Only look at databases to which we have access
and has_dbaccess(db_name(s_mf.database_id)) = 1

        -- Not master, tempdb or model
    and db_name(s_mf.database_id) not in ('Master','tempdb','model')
    group by s_mf.database_id
    order by 1

OPEN DATABASES_CURSOR

FETCH NEXT FROM DATABASES_CURSOR INTO @DBName

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
    declare @DBFileName varchar(256)
    set @DBFileName = datename(dw, getdate()) + ' - ' +
                       replace(replace(@DBName,':','_'),'\','_')+ '.BAK'

    exec ('BACKUP DATABASE [' + @DBName + '] TO DISK = N''D:\dbbackup\' +
        @DBFileName + ''' WITH NOFORMAT, INIT, NAME = N''' +
        @DBName + '-Full Database Backup'', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 100')

FETCH NEXT FROM DATABASES_CURSOR INTO @DBName
END

CLOSE DATABASES_CURSOR
DEALLOCATE DATABASES_CURSOR

Counting Rows in All Database Tables in SQL Server

SELECT
    sysobjects.Name
    , sysindexes.Rows
FROM
    sysobjects
    INNER JOIN sysindexes
    ON sysobjects.id = sysindexes.id
WHERE
    type = 'U'
    AND sysindexes.IndId < 2
ORDER BY
    sysobjects.Namecode

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