Mac OS X Snow Leopard – NotificationExec Pop Up Annoyance

snowleopardJust installed Mac OS X 10.6 on my home iMac. It was truly a perfectly painless experience…click about 4 buttons and type your password and walk away for 45 minutes.

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Dilbert – Successful Work Avoider

My gosh, these are good!  Enjoy!

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.1

wpI’ve upgraded three sites to WordPress 2.8.1.  None of them missed a beat.  Also, PhotoSmash seems completely unfazed by its new bedfellow.

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SAP – How to Block a Profit Center from Posting

sap_logoBlocking a Profit Center from posting in SAP should be easy, right?  Well, it is, but there is one little trick you need to know, or you will spend hours trying to figure out why you can still post to your supposedly blocked profit center.

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SAP – F.50 Profit Loss Adjustment or Cash Discount Details

profit-and-loss-adjustment-692009-44654-pm-2There are a few things, well maybe more than a few, that SAP asks you to just take on faith.  Running the Classic GL on ECC 6.0 or prior (4.6 c, etc), the Cash Discount calculation (also known as the Profit Loss Adjustments calculation, T-code: F.50) is one of them.

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C# – SQL Server Foreign Key, Unique constraints

unique_key_constraintI got tripped up today with a particularly nasty Join statement that worked perfectly form 90% of the queries, but was blowing up at times.  The error message was: 

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C# – Convert String Array to a List (.Net 2.0)

ASP.netSo you’ve got a C# string and you want to convert it to a List<string>.  Lists are one of the most efficient ways of storing…well…lists of things in .Net.  If you’re in .Net 3.0, it’s quite easy to go from a string array to a list by using the .ToList() function.

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WordPress: Get Category ID for a Category Page

wp-pluginIt shouldn’t be this hard!!  Here is a quick function for getting the Category ID for a WordPress Category Page. Once you get the Category ID, a world of possbilities opens up. You can get the category object and all the info you need related to that Cat.  I can’t believe how hard it was to find this on Google. Ultimately, I had to piece together a couple of different posts to get to this since they weren’t quite right.

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