Recently quite a few of our users have been asking if they can show all of the report details at runtime, instead of having to drill down all the groups, opening and closing as they see fit. Well, the answer is yes, and its very easy to implement. Parameters are you friend The first thing to do is create yourself a new parameter in the report, and call it something like par_expand_groups. Give it the following options: Now, you need to make this parameter control weather or not the group is ... Read Full Story

Recently quite a few of our users have been asking if they can show all of the report details at runtime, instead of having to drill down all the groups, opening and closing as they see fit. Well, the answer is yes, and its very easy to implement. Parameters are you friend The first thing to do is create yourself a new parameter in the report, and call it something like par_expand_groups. Give it the following options: Now, you need to make this parameter control weather or not the group is ... Read Full Story

I while ago I wrote an artical (here)about the new Web slice feature in IE8. A few people have asked about a plugin for WordPress, and the other night I finally decided to have a go. Head over to http://www.beakersoft.co.uk/wordslice for all the info, or to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordslice/ for the download and the install notes. Hopefully in the [...] Read Full Story

I while ago I wrote an artical (here)about the new Web slice feature in IE8. A few people have asked about a plugin for WordPress, and the other night I finally decided to have a go. Head over to http://www.beakersoft.co.uk/wordslice for all the info, or to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordslice/ for the download and the install notes. Hopefully in the not to distant future i will be add some extra features to it (its kind of limited at the moment) so stay tuned! Read Full Story

I have recently had the unfortunate experience of having to try and clean up a network that has been hit by the conficker virus.It is a pain to get of and caused us a lot of problems, this is a quick guide to how we went about cleaning it up. This might not work exactly the same for you but it might give you some pointers. Accounts locking out This was the probably the biggest pain for us. One of the way the virus spreads it’s self is on smb shares, to it tries to access these shares b... Read Full Story

I have recently had the unfortunate experience of having to try and clean up a network that has been hit by the conficker virus.It is a pain to get of and caused us a lot of problems, this is a quick guide to how we went about cleaning it up. This might not work exactly the same for you but it might give you some pointers. Accounts locking out This was the probably the biggest pain for us. One of the way the virus spreads it’s self is on smb shares, to it tries to access these shares b... Read Full Story

I have been doing some work on an asp.net project that connects to a db with full text indexing enabled on a text field. We are building the app up so that users can run advanced searches using the info in this filed. While debugging the app, i came across a problem that i thought i was catching and trapping, but my app seamed to be ignoreing the problem and carrying on running so i was getting some strange results. I was running some sql similar to this: SELECT Count(title) as rec_count FROM... Read Full Story

I have been doing some work on an asp.net project that connects to a db with full text indexing enabled on a text field. We are building the app up so that users can run advanced searches using the info in this filed. While debugging the app, i came across a problem that i thought i was catching and trapping, but my app seamed to be ignoreing the problem and carrying on running so i was getting some strange results. I was running some sql similar to this: SELECT Count(title) as rec_count FROM... Read Full Story

Me and a couple of the guys i work with a decided to have a good at writing our own software, and making it available online. We are going under the (rather good i think) name of we3soft, and you can get at our website by visiting www.we3soft.com We have got quite a few ideas/applications in the pipeline, and hope to start working with some of our local businesses on some of there projects. At the mo we have only one application (and its in beta) avaialble for download on the website. It goe... Read Full Story

Me and a couple of the guys i work with a decided to have a good at writing our own software, and making it available online. We are going under the (rather good i think) name of we3soft, and you can get at our website by visiting www.we3soft.com We have got quite a few ideas/applications in the pipeline, and hope to start working with some of our local businesses on some of there projects. At the mo we have only one application (and its in beta) avaialble for download on the website. It goes... Read Full Story