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Link for Jeffs VS Color Theme?

- by Maike

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/files/exported-font-and-colors-for-jeff-atwood-sept-19.zip The Link is not working, anybody has a mirror, or an export for VS 2008?

Using SQL Developer to Debug your Anonymous PL/SQL Blocks

Everyone knows that SQL Developer has a PL/SQL debugger – check! Everyone also knows that it’s only setup for debugging standalone PL/SQL objects like Functions, Procedures, and Packages, right? – NO! SQL Developer can also debug your Stored Java Procedures AND it can debug your standalone PLSQL blocks. These bits of PLSQL which do not live in the…

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Vertical-Align: A Full Explanation

- by Livvy Jeffs

I've been struggling with vertical alignments, a seemingly simple enough process that has a lot of idiosyncrasies throughout different languages and element types. I've done a lot of reading through stackexchange and can't seem to find a common thread of understanding. Here are the rules that I have been able to gather: 1) Vertical-align does…

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Why is Django reverse() failing with unicode?

- by JeffS

Here is a django models file that is not working as I would expect. I would expect the to_url method to do the reverse lookup in the urls.py file, and get a url that would correspond to calling that view with arguments supplied by the Arguments model. from django.db import models class Element(models.Model): viewname =…

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How to: group by month with SQL

- by AngelEyes

I took this particular code from http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2007/09/10/group-by-month-sql.aspx, a good read. Shows you what to avoid and why. The recommended technique is the following: GROUP BY dateadd(month, datediff(month, 0, SomeDate),0) By the way, in the "select" clause, you can use…

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JQuery Cycle fails on Page Refresh

- by Darknight

In a similar issue as this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1719475/jquery-cycle-firefox-squishing-images I've managed to overcome the initial problem using Jeffs answer in the above link. However now I have noticed a new bug, upon page refresh it simply does not work. I have tried a hard refresh (ctrl+F5) but…

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