http://www.sovalid.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:46:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I actually saw how many people's Zune 30GB froze aka Z2K9 including my manager's, so I offered to fix it. Basically I found out that taking the Zune apart is not the answer it actually still boots up and freezes on the Zune load page. The proper way to fix ... http://www.sovalid.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/zune-30gb-frozen-z2k9-fix/ So I recently saw the article posted on Gizmodo about the new Microsoft Courier, and I have to say I am really impressed and disappointed. I was saying impressed because of the simplicity and the amount of functionality that is available with the Courier. I was disappointed in the fact ... http://www.sovalid.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/microsoft-courier/ Have you ever wondered how to go from a Classic ASP page to Excel? I have done this a lot usually someone in the office will ask, "Can I have the total profit of the month in a spreadsheet?" now you can handle this one of two ways go and ... http://www.sovalid.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/classic-asp-to-excel/ I know it has been a while since I sat down and wrote a decent post so tonight I figured let me discuss sending emails Classic ASP style. View the code below which will be explained in further detail: <% Dim strMailTo Dim strMailSubject Dim strMailBody Dim objCDOMail 'The CDO object strMailSubject = "Test Via ASP" strMailTo ... http://www.sovalid.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/email-via-classic-asp/ Below is a video of the IBM Thinkpad A21m that I converted into a digital photo frame, at least now you can see it in action. http://www.sovalid.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/digital-photo-frame-video/ So I recently decided to try something that I have seen on the internet but with no real explanation as to how to accomplish this I figured let me try it out for myself. I got a laptop free of charge from my sister-in law she wasn't using it any ... http://www.sovalid.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/my-laptop-digital-photo-frame/ Today I want to illustrate a quick and easy way to change all first letters of words in a string to upper case using classic ASP. <% Function ChagetoUpperCase(X) Dim lcstring Dim oldcase Dim NewArray Dim newString Dim IntegerI Dim I lcstring = CStr(LCase(X)) oldcase = " " NewArray = Split(lcstring," ") For IntegerI = LBound(NewArray) To UBound(NewArray) For I = 1 To ... http://www.sovalid.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/first-letter-upper-case-in-classic-asp/ I have spent the past day or so looking, thinking, and writing the perfect code that will return the dimensions of an image using JavaScript and place them in a cookie so that I may use it on an ASP page. Well after some research and thinking I came up ... http://www.sovalid.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/image-size-from-javascript-to-classic-asp/ Keeping up with yesterdays post I figured I would illustrate how to create a JavaScript cookie and pass it to Classic ASP. This part was taken from http://www.w3schools.com for those of you that need a course on JavaScript Cookies: <script type="text/javascript"> function getCookie(c_name) { if (document.cookie.length>0) { c_start=document.cookie.indexOf(c_name + "="); if (c_start!=-1) { c_start=c_start + c_name.length+1 ; c_end=document.cookie.indexOf(";",c_start); if (c_end==-1) c_end=document.cookie.length return unescape(document.cookie.substring(c_start,c_end)); } } return ... http://www.sovalid.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/pass-javascript-cookie-to-classic-asp/ Today I want to review the uses of classic ASP cookies and how to use them. Let us say that we want to save the last item a customer viewed for the next time they return. This is accomplished really easily, let us take a look. Create the cookie on different ... http://www.sovalid.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/classic-asp-cookies/