http://blog.grapii.com Systems, Solutions, Software & Stuff Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:47:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Microsoft SQL Server 2000 provides a method for obtaining meta data using information schema views. http://blog.grapii.com/index.php/2008/03/17/list-tablecolumn-names-in-sql-database/ It is beyond the scope of this article to embark on a detailed discussion of system theory. However, it is useful to have a working definition of the word system. http://blog.grapii.com/index.php/2008/03/07/what-is-a-system/ I wanted to create a glossary that facilitates terms, buzz words and acronyms used in modern computing.  I needed something that was simple to update and manage, and use the capabilities of WordPress rather than creating a simple page with hyperlinks/bookmarks, which would require jumping back and forth into code.  http://blog.grapii.com/index.php/2008/02/29/create-a-glossary-with-wordpress/ I was reading this top ten list yesterday, and I thought I can probably come up with my own list of things no-one told me before I started developing software. I'm going to highlight the three items I particularly agree with. http://blog.grapii.com/index.php/2008/02/27/software-development-lessons/ I've been using WordPress for a few weeks now, and thinks it's an awesome blogging tool, however, as with most applications it doesn't do exactly what I want it to do.  One of the annoyances I have right now, is that the thumbnail image WordPress 2.3 creates is too small ... http://blog.grapii.com/index.php/2008/02/27/change-default-thumbnail-size-in-wordpress/ I've been having problems recently with attempted spamming exploits on my form to email scripts (i.e. users downloading forms, messing with them and then submitting them remotely to my form handling scripts) and thought I'd see if comparing the sessionID of the sending pages and form handling pages could help ... http://blog.grapii.com/index.php/2008/01/18/form-security-using-sessionsessionid/ Installed Vista Ultimate the other day, after much customising, I finally got round to installing IIS, everything seemed to work fine, until I migrated my Classic ASP applications.  Stumbled across a whole bunch of issues, which I finally resolved thanks to a bit of research on Google, so I thought ... http://blog.grapii.com/index.php/2008/01/15/tips-for-classic-asp-developers-on-vista/ Databases can be compromised if they are open to SQL Injection Attack. Stripping invalid characters from form inputs will reduce this risk. If you have a form on your site that interacts with a database (e.g. a username/password login form), you should secure the form by adding an additional stage between ... http://blog.grapii.com/index.php/2008/01/11/reducing-the-risk-of-sql-injection-attack/ A handy post to help refresh the various date/time functions and formats available for ASP developers. http://blog.grapii.com/index.php/2008/01/06/date-and-time-functions-in-asp/ This article illustrates how you can easily connect to and manipulate SQL databases using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) with Active Server Pages (ASP) http://blog.grapii.com/index.php/2008/01/05/using-ado-and-sql-with-asp/