Dilbert – Successful Work Avoider

Dilbert – Successful Work Avoider

My gosh, these are good!  Enjoy!

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.1

I’ve upgraded three sites to WordPress 2.8.1.  None of them missed a beat.  Also, PhotoSmash seems completely unfazed by its new bedfellow. The auto-upgrade function/feature purely rocks.   It takes less than a minute, while FTP’ing the entire 2.2 MB to you server can take a dozen. Thanks for the smoothness, WP Heros! Cheers, Byron

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SAP – How to Block a Profit Center from Posting

SAP – How to Block a Profit Center from Posting

Blocking 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. Here is the step-by-step: Go to T-code KE52 and call [...]

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

There 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. As a general ledger accountant [...]

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C# – SQL Server Foreign Key, Unique constraints

I 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:  Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contain values violating non-null, unique, or foreign-key constraints. I looked and looked at this SQL code: It looked [...]

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

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

So 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. If you’re stuck in .Net [...]

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WordPress: Get Category ID for a Category Page

WordPress: Get Category ID for a Category Page

It 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 [...]

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ASP.NET – Get User Name Under Windows Authentication

ASP.NET – Get User Name Under Windows Authentication

Getting the authenticated user’s name when using Windows Authentication with ASP.NET is very simple.  I just keep having to go back to Google or dig out an old project to remember it, so here it is: Be sure to add the Security reference: Thats it! [UPDATE] Check out the comments below for some additional suggestions [...]

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SAP: Functional Areas in Distributions & Assessments

SAP allocations, or more precisely, Assessments and Distributions offer a lot of flexibility in their design.  So much so, that you can get lost in the details pretty quickly.  We recently discovered a flaw in our approach to distributing Gross Margin from non-sales profit centers.  The problem was that the distribution did not carry the [...]

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PhotoSmash Galleries Plugin turns 1,000

Even as I sit here trying to fix a thorny problem with PhotoSmash, I popped by the plugin’s page and noticed that it had turned 1,000 downloads on the nose. Let’s hope the next 1,000 downloads have it a bit easier. PhotoSmash is a WordPress photo gallery plugin lets you let your visitors upload images [...]

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