Cleopatra – Last Queen Of Egypt
About half the book is about lineage and Egyptian mythology. Some interesting chapters.
The Last 100 Days
Packed with detail. A bit dated, but not bad overall.
Ayn Rand
“When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars. Take your choice – there is no other.”
SSMS 2008 stops showing 2005 dbs
I started getting this error out of the blue when trying to access a hosted 2005 db through SSMS 2008.
The server principal “db1” is not able to access the database “db2” under the current security context. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 916)
No databases would display under the databases tab and every refresh would result in the same error. I could see the dbs in SSMS 2005.
The fix is pretty weird. Click on the Databases folder, then View / Object Explorer Details. Then right click in the column headings and un-select Collation. Refresh the folder and the dbs should be there.
force __doPostBack generation
Sometimes you want the __doPostBack function to be forced on a aspx page.
Add this line in your Page_Load event:
Page.ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(New Control(), String.Empty)
onMouseOut for nested DIV
This was making me crazy for a bit. The onMouseOut event fires for the parent DIV when moving over the child DIV elements.
I had several custom menus nested in divs and I only wanted to hide the entire parent DIV block when the mouse left the parent.
Came across the handy script below which works like a charm.
What’s So Funny?
The Dortmunder series is pretty good.
Fixed header for repeater control
Here is a simple solution to get an excel like fixed header at the top of a repeater control.
Southern Storm
A lot of details, but not much new. Good read overall.
e.item.DataItem causes invalid cast exception
I kept getting an exception when attempting to cast e.Item.DataItem to DataRowView in a repeater control ItemDataBound event.
Issue was I was binding a DataReader, which requires DBDataRecord in System.Data.Common. Dataset uses DataRowView.
If the data source is a DataReader object, you must cast e.Item.DataItem as type DBDataRecord (from System.Data.Common) in the event handler. If the data source is a DataTable, you must cast e.Item.DataItem as type DataRowView.
Bleeders
Not bad. Doesn’t stuff it with fluff.
John Keats
Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
The Burgler Who Studied Spinoza
Moves along. Nothing heavy.
The Honor Farm
Interesting premise. Decent ending with a lot of muddle in between.
Money For Nothing
Not much going on in this book.
Von Ryan’s Express
Might be one of those rare instances where the movie is better than the book.
Cops and Robbers
Straight ahead with little filler.
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
I guess it’s a classic, but I found it pretty pointless. Might be better on stage.
This Republic of Suffering
A couple interesting chapters. Easy to skim.
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)
