VB.NET – List Active Directory users – Follow-up

Today I received a comment on an old article of mine called “VB.NET – List Active Directory users – Re-write“. It was from a user who had tried the code and, while it worked fine, it stopped listing users when it reached a count of 1000. The active directory I was using to test this code didn’t have 1000 users so I had no idea this would happen at the time. So, today I set about...

What tools, software & applications do I use? v2.0

This post is intended as a couple of things. Firstly, it’s a rewrite of a post I wrote a while ago that covered the same thing as this one covers but from when I was running Windows. I’ve actually had a couple of people ask me what tools I use for various tasks so I’m going to compile a list of the various applications I use ‘every day’. That’s in quotes as obviously I...

Managing success and error results from jQuery with PHP

Part of the project I’m working on now uses jQuery AJAX methods to process certain requests. In particular, the first implementation of this was the simple submission of a form that saves some configuration options. These days who wants to see the ugly/old-style spinning loading icon when they click submit? I’d say that AJAX has more impact, seems more professional and is … well … cooler. ...

Microsoft Excel – Delete matching rows

As part of my new role at Fujitsu here in Wellington I’ve been running a whole load of reports from the SAN I’ve been assigned to. I’m not going to go into any detail about the SAN itself other than to say it’s from HP (for obvious reasons) but the reports I get from the reporting tools aren’t that useful in themselves. Many tens of thousands of lines of reporting data is hard to read...

Aptana Studio drops native PHP support

Gutted! Aptana Studio, the editor I use for PHP development, has released the latest version, 2.0, and removed support for native PHP editing at the same time. ...