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I have both Visual Studio .NET 2005 Express as well as Visual Studio .NET 2003 installed on my PC. I just installed Service Pack 1 for VS 2003. For some reason this decided to take over file associations for things like .VBS. Instead of launching the Windows Scripting Host, it launches Visual Studio .NET 2003.
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Ok, I’m not really going to do a PHP tip every day, but here’s something I learned the hard way. I normally don’t index an array like this, but for some reason one day I decided to try it and it came back to haunt me.

$myarray[03] != $myarray[3]
In fact,
$myarray[03] == $myarray[0]
Go figure.
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This Black Friday shopping thing is just totally weird when you step back and take a look at it. I have a really hard time understanding the appeal of standing in line in the cold, hours on end to save a few bucks. However, over the last few years, the phenomenon has become more prominent online as well. While I refuse to fight the crowds and cold, I am much more willing to fight the cyber crowd for a deal.
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There are some interesting things out there that people are doing with the new Code Search feature that Google released last week. I couldn’t resist coming up with a couple interesting searches of my own.
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The latest version of the De-Crapifier has been posted. This one has a snazzy new feature that allows the user to individually select what programs the De-Crapifier should uninstall.
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A few nice updates, especially removal of AOL 9.0, UK version.
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Wow! I had no idea that this little script would generate so much interest! The last few days have been quite busy for the website. I’ve been reading over all of the comments, and I just wanted to respond to some of them. I also would like to elaborate a little further with some specific ways people can help contribute to the script if they would like.
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It’s a sad state of affairs when you buy a new computer these days and it comes pre-loaded with a ton of garbage software that brings your new machine to a crawl. If anyone’s bought a Dell PC in the last few years, you probably know what I’m talking about. Just recently, I was helping a friend set up his brand new Inspiron 1300 and it took FOREVER for it to boot up. It’s a very dissatifiying experience to pull a brand new computer out of the box and be spammed with a bunch of trial software. After removing all of the crap, (wich took a significant amount of time) it booted much faster and performed like it should. I kept thinking it would be nice to have an automated way to remove all this stuff. Thus was born the Dell De-Crapifier script.
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Recently, I’ve been working on a project that involves reading a batch of data using an ASP script. I wanted the bulk of the code to be able to operate on a standard MSSQL database OR read the same data from a static Excel file. On the surface, the Microsoft Excel ODBC driver seems like a natural choice. However, as you will see the best advice is to stay far, far away from this driver.
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I recently wrote a plug-in module for Exponent CMS. I really like the CMS and is very capable to do what I would like. However, when I set out to write my own custom module, I found the documentation lacking. In this article, I’ll outline some tips to help you get started writing a module for Exponent CMS.
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