Monthly Archives: December 2008

Microsoft SQL Server text data column and PHP length problems

Posted on December 29, 2008 by

I’ve had this problem before: PHP truncates results from a SQL Server text field to 4096 characters. (This is running PHP under Apache on Windows.) To save myself having to work out the right Google terms again, this is the … Continue reading →

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Repeatable random numbers in JavaScript

Posted on December 17, 2008 by

Ever since programming BASIC on the Spectrum I’d wondered why it was possible to seed a “random” number generator. But then I found I wanted to do something that would produce repeatable results, but look like a random sequence. Strangely, … Continue reading →

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Firing JavaScript functions after a .Net AJAX request

Posted on December 16, 2008 by

I wanted to have a function called after data was returned to the page from a .Net AJAX call. (The idea was to fade out when you pressed “submit” and then redraw when data came back.) It turns out there … Continue reading →

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Near Athens – the island of Aegina

Posted on December 3, 2008 by

Whether the island is actually spelt Aegina or not I couldn’t tell – it was spelt differently on every timetable and in every guidebook. But if fits for me. We started off at Piraeus, the port that’s virtually a suburb … Continue reading →

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Athens – some modern stuff

Posted on December 1, 2008 by

Athens has a strange history of very ancient architecture, a bit of development with the Romans, and then not much for a very long period of time. Most of the city looks very 20th century, and not particularly well done … Continue reading →

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Athens – various old stuff

Posted on December 1, 2008 by

Athens is full of old stuff. You can’t help seeing it everywhere, and they can’t help but finding it every time they want to build something. As a result, there are quite a few museums of old stuff, or places … Continue reading →

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