OCR for Brother MFC-J475DW

The OCR tool is not included on the original software for this multi-function device.
You need to install the Brother Paperport Tool. The software is available in this link:

http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadhowto.aspx?c=ca&lang=en&prod=mfcj475dw_us_as&os=93&dlid=dlf005342_000&flang=4&type3=557

List of Requirement Management Tools - great link!

This page will provide a list of tools available for requirements management. It's not easy to find this type of list, this is really great! 

http://makingofsoftware.com/resources/list-of-rm-tools

How to open an email in another windows on Lotus Notes

I'm not a big fan of Lotus notes, I miss working with Outlook. Nothing is that easy as the MS world is...

So, to open an email in another window on Notes: 

1. Click on the email (or the application that you want to open). 

2. Right click on the tab name

3. Click on "Open in New Window" option... 

So simple... But I still prefer Outlook!

Reading List

Sams teach yourself Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 in 24 hoursMicrosoft business intelligence for dummies
Foundations of SQL Server 2008 R2 business intelligence 2nd ed.

Oracle advanced PL/SQL developer professional guide master advanced PL/SQL concepts along with plenty of example questions for 1Z0-146 examination
OCA Oracle database 11g SQL fundamentals I : a real world certification guide

CSS Friendly Control Adapters

This project helps you to render your project according to the browser. It transform your controls provinding CSS friendly, browser-compartible markup.
It's free and you can add to your project. Sensational!

This is the original project :
http://cssfriendly.codeplex.com/

This is another project based on the first one:
http://code.google.com/p/aspnetcontroladapters/

Enjoy it!

Website for Software Testing

This website has guidelines and templates for you to create your Test Case Documents. It was very useful for me to create my test case document.

 

This page is specific for test Case templates:

 

http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/test-case-template-examples/

How to navigate backwards on VS 2010

Remember the last position on VS 6.0?

This is the command that you have to use :

Press Ctrl+- at once!

Looking for a job? Try these links:

Ontario Public Service Careers
Eluta Programmer Analyst jobs - Toronto up to 50 km
ScotiaBank
Careers in the federal public service

Website to Learn HTML & CSS

If you, like me just get the CSS file done by the designer and wants to learn more, this website is pretty good.

There are videos very well done, Jeffrey way (the instructor) is very didactic.

It seems pretty basic, but for me I’ll finally learn how to create a proper css file! At least hope so, I’m still on day 3!

Here is the link:  http://learncss.tutsplus.com/lesson/your-code-editor/

Blekko - removing this plague from firefox

Firefox has a way to remove this plague if you have it.

Blekko is a redirector that is hijacking your browser and changing its configuration.
You probably got  this thing when you were downloading something from CNET (coming as an additional tool) or was accessing some website with malicious domains. 
This works as an engine, but redirects you to some malicious websites, in order to gain traffic for spam websites, containing fake ads or scams! Go to this page.

And you'll be able to choose what solution works best for you. In my case, I did the following (because I knew that the issue was on ff, chrome was working fine).

on the address bar, type about: config.
You'll get a warning message, go ahead (but be careful or else)!!!
On the search field, type "keyword"
You'll see the blekko redirection on the "keyworld.url" item. Click twice and change it to http://www.google.com/search?q=.
Close the tab (please don't do anything else) and try to type something on the address bar. It'll go to google (Hopefully).

Just reminding, that worked on my case, maybe it could not work on yours!!!

sp_helptext for views in Oracle

So easy and I didn’t know...

 

select VIEW_NAME, TEXT
from all_views     
where
      VIEW_NAME = 'MYVIEW'

 

 

Crystal Reports for Download

Page has versions of Crystal Reports from v. 9.1 to 13.x for download.

 

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=56787567

 

Get the IT career you want: Develop business value - Page 1 - IT Workplace

Get the IT career you want: Develop business value - Page 1 - IT Workplace

VS2010AutoScroller - Release: AutoScroller v0.4.2

I have no idea why Microsoft does this. They took the autoscroll functionality from Visual Studio 2010!
So, to solve this problem I found this extension!
VS2010AutoScroller - Release: AutoScroller v0.4.2: "AutoScroller.vsix"

After you finish download the file, you can copy the file into %appdata%\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions
folder.

Then you open VS2010 and... enjoy it!

Renaming a column using oracle from version 9i

ALTER TABLE <TABLE_NAME> RENAME COLUMN <CURRENT_COLUMN_NAME> TO<NEW_COLUMN_NAME>;

TO_DATE Oracle Function

Syntax: TO_DATE (date, format) 

 

Example: TO_DATE('11/11/2010 13:00:00', 'dd/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS')  - in this case for 24 hours. For 12 hours, you should also specify AM or PM.

 

Find out more in this website (another one that I hope lasts forever) - http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/to_date.php

 

 

Oracle JDBC string Connection for thin driver

Simple, simple (I took too much time trying to find this string)…

 

jdbc:oracle:thin:[user/password]@//[host][:port]/SID

 

String connection for Microsoft ODBC for Oracle

Direct connection, no DSN, no TSN:

Driver={Microsoft ODBC for Oracle};Server=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=199.199.199.199)(PORT=1523))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=dbName)));Uid=sqv;Pwd=sqv;

 

Extract from: http://www.connectionstrings.com/oracle#p17 (very good website)

 

Bulleted lists, numeric lists, etc - HTML Tutorial

I found a very good interesting website teaching how to create lists using only html.
I know, it's simple, but I've never used. Since the number of ASP.NET MVC applications are growing, is always good to know...

I used bulleted lists. You can use the following tag: <ul><li></li></ul>. For the other types, check the website, there is a very good a simple tutorial...

http://www.echoecho.com/htmllists.htm

SQL Injection

This video is really good.
I've known about SQL Injection but I've never seen how they do it. The instructor give good tips to avoid it!

http://www.asp.net/security/videos/sql-injection-defense

This is a real example of what could happen:

http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/hacker-steals-e-mail-addresses-demands-astley-tune/140705