hello. my name is john.

On May 4, 2007 I received the following ominous sounding email:
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Christy & I went to the Smoky Mountains while the ladies were at their grandparents in 'Hotlanta'. We had an awesome time, canoing and hiking. It is really a beautiful part of the country, and the mountain folks are all very nice. We did a ton of driving, but it was a lot of fun. I now know why the Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular national park in the country (although, to be honest, it didn't seem crowded to us at all).

Anyway, here are a bunch of pictures we took while we were there. Enjoy.
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Many of us who use Thumbs+ have found that the default 2GB limit of Microsoft Access to be a concern, if not an outright problem. There are several solutions to this - you can buy SQL Server 2000, which can be cost prohibitive, or install MySQL, which some users find more intimidating than others. A third option is available, now that Microsoft has made SQL Server 2005 Express (SSE) a free download.

To aid those interested in using SSE with Thumbs+, I have made the following brief tutorial available. I would appreciate any input into correcting errors, or of any bugs anyone finds in using SSE with Thumbs+.
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I needed a quick function in PHP that would generate HTML tables from database information. The issue was that the column names would not be known in advance for some of the more generic queries so I found the solution using the PEAR DB tableinfo() function. This function does exactly what I needed - it "gets info about columns in a table or a query result". Perfect. So I created a function that takes a valid query for your database and formats the results into a nice HTML table, which I find useful for reporting pages (easily imported into Excel or Calc).

Here is the code:
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I use this simple overlib to pull off a webpage preview on select sites I use. This realtime preview is much more appealling than the static webshot you see on websites using webpage preview features such as thumbnails. I'd be interested in knowing if anyone has a solution for constraining the content within the iframe. It would be a nice way to control the overlib size and resize the content to a certain window size, instead of having the overlib resize to the size of the content. (more...)