adorr.net » Web Development http://adorr.net where Arts resolves into Science Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:20:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Google +1 Button http://adorr.net/2011/07/google-1-button.html http://adorr.net/2011/07/google-1-button.html#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:17:22 +0000 d0rr http://adorr.net/?p=1490

You should have heard about Google+ by now.

Like it or not, you have to add it onto your already lengthy social media todo list for your customers, clients or your ownselves.

Default button embedding code can be as simple as follow:

<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>

<!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render -->
<g:plusone></g:plusone>

But wait! You don’t have to be bounded by the same old boring button!

Go on and get your customized Google +1 Button now!

]]> http://adorr.net/2011/07/google-1-button.html/feed 0 Secure Your Web Application Using Acunetix http://adorr.net/2011/06/secure-your-web-application-using-acunetix.html http://adorr.net/2011/06/secure-your-web-application-using-acunetix.html#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:57:23 +0000 d0rr http://adorr.net/?p=1483

If you are in the website/web application industry, you should most probably be familiar with (or at least heard of) the name of Acunetix.

To put it simply, Acunetix is web security scanner which you can use to audit your website/web application, the Enterprise way.

In Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), you should be aware that there is an additional essential and crucial step in website/web application SDLC, which is Security Testing. Ranging from the common Cross-site scripting (XSS) to SQL injection, Acunetix is able to preamp you with the security loopholes and possible vulnerability before it’s too late.

It is kind enough that Acunetix offer free Cross-site Scripting (XSS) scanner for you to get a hold on how Acunetix is and how do we operate them.

If this is your first time installing and running Acunetix, you may want to refer to the official getting started step-by-step manual.

The pricing of Acunetix is relatively cheap if you consider what it does to give your clients piece of mind.

Do you have anything to say about Acunetix?

Or do you know of any other (open source) alternative solutions?

Please share!

]]> http://adorr.net/2011/06/secure-your-web-application-using-acunetix.html/feed 0 Send Email from Gmail using ASP.NET http://adorr.net/2011/06/send-email-from-gmail-using-asp-net.html http://adorr.net/2011/06/send-email-from-gmail-using-asp-net.html#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:49:19 +0000 d0rr http://adorr.net/?p=1476 Cut the chase and let’s dive into the code right away.

VB.NET code

Try

Dim mailUsername As String = "YOUR-USERNAME@gmail.com"
Dim mailPassword As String = "YOUR-PASSWORD"
Dim mailToEmail As String = "TO-ADDRESS@EMAIL.COM"
Dim mailSubject As String = "this is the mail subject"
Dim mailBodyFormat As System.Web.Mail.MailFormat = Web.Mail.MailFormat.Text
Dim mailBody As String = "this is the mail body"
Dim attachmentPath As String = ""

Dim myMail As New System.Web.Mail.MailMessage()
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver", "smtp.gmail.com")
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport", "465")
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing", "2")
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate", "1")
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername", mailUsername)
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword", mailPassword)
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl", "true")
myMail.From = mailUsername
myMail.[To] = mailToEmail
myMail.Subject = mailSubject
myMail.BodyFormat = mailBodyFormat
myMail.Body = mailBody
If attachmentPath.Trim() <> "" Then
Dim MyAttachment As New System.Web.Mail.MailAttachment(attachmentPath)
myMail.Attachments.Add(MyAttachment)
myMail.Priority = System.Web.Mail.MailPriority.High
End If

System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "smtp.gmail.com:465"
System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send(myMail)

Catch ex As Exception

Response.Write(ex.Message.ToString)

End Try

C# code

try {

string mailUsername = "YOUR-USERNAME@gmail.com";
string mailPassword = "YOUR-PASSWORD";
string mailToEmail = "TO-ADDRESS@EMAIL.COM";
string mailSubject = "this is the mail subject";
System.Web.Mail.MailFormat mailBodyFormat = System.Web.Mail.MailFormat.Text;
string mailBody = "this is the mail body";
string attachmentPath = "";

System.Web.Mail.MailMessage myMail = new System.Web.Mail.MailMessage();
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver", "smtp.gmail.com");
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport", "465");
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing", "2");
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate", "1");
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername", mailUsername);
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword", mailPassword);
myMail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl", "true");
myMail.From = mailUsername;
myMail.To = mailToEmail;
myMail.Subject = mailSubject;
myMail.BodyFormat = mailBodyFormat;
myMail.Body = mailBody;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(attachmentPath.Trim())) {
System.Web.Mail.MailAttachment MyAttachment = new System.Web.Mail.MailAttachment(attachmentPath);
myMail.Attachments.Add(MyAttachment);
myMail.Priority = System.Web.Mail.MailPriority.High;
}

System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "smtp.gmail.com:465";
System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send(myMail);

} catch (Exception ex) {

Response.Write(ex.Message.ToString());

}

Simple yet useful. Let me know if it works for you.

Cheers!

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You have installed Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express R2 on Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

You completed the installation.

However when you try to start SQL Server service, you were thrown an error message “The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.“

Or, you did not get any error message, but your SQL Server service did not start either, and when you dig into Application Event Viewer you see “FileMgr::StartLogFiles: Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) occurred while creating or opening file ‘e:\sql10_main_t.obj.x86fre\sql\mkmastr\databases\objfre\i386\MSDBLog.ldf’. Diagnose and correct the operating system error, and retry the operation.“

Retry for a few times and you may get slightly different error messages, but all have to do with not able to open file at location e:\sql10_main_t.obj.x86fre\sql\mkmastr\databases\objfre\i386\, be it for the files model.mdf, MSDBData.mdf, modellog.ldf or MSDBLog.ldf

If you have followed and encountered the same (or similar path) mentioned above, read on.

Possible Fix

Many have blamed the problematic Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express R2 installer.

Some managed to fix it without reinstalling (but it failed on me).

However, no harm giving it a try as it may work on your installation.

Run the following:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Release\setup.exe

with the parameters:

/ACTION=REBUILDDATABASE /INSTANCENAME=SQLEXPRESS /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS=<account name>

My Solution

I uninstalled my SQL Server 2008 Express R2.

I downloaded and installed Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AB99342F-5D1A-413D-8319-81DA479AB0D7&displaylang=en

Last but not least, I downloaded and installed SQL Server 2008 Express SP1 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=01AF61E6-2F63-4291-BCAD-FD500F6027FF&displaylang=en

To play safe, I downloaded SQLEXPR_x86_ENU.exe which suppports installation on both 32-bit and 64-bit (WoW) O/S, though I was running 64-bit O/S.

Whats More?

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express installation will not be completed without Management Studio.

You may want to download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=08e52ac2-1d62-45f6-9a4a-4b76a8564a2b

Let me know if the above solutions works on you.

]]> http://adorr.net/2011/05/erroneous-microsoft-sql-server-2008-express-r2-installation.html/feed 3 Auto-signed Photos http://adorr.net/2010/12/auto-signed-photos.html http://adorr.net/2010/12/auto-signed-photos.html#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:13:16 +0000 d0rr http://adorr.net/?p=1221

Ever wonder how people manage to put on watermarks on their photos automatically, especially when it comes to whole bunch of travel photos?

It’s either you do a batch watermarking using softwares like FastStone Photo Resizer, or you do it automatically with JavaScript.

CSS Styles

First of all, define the CSS so that the signature will overlay and positioned on bottom right corner of your photos.

With minimal CSS knowledge, you can also define the color and styles that fit your website.

<style type='text/css'>
h1 {
font-family: 'Lobster', arial, serif;
font-size: 40px;
}
#content p {
font-family: 'Cantarell', arial, serif;
font-size: 20px;
}
#content .signed {
position: relative;
}
#content .signed img {
position: relative;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
#content .signature {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
color: #fff;
margin: 10px;
font-family: 'Kristi', arial, serif;
font-size: 28px;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #000;
}
</style>

JavaScript

Here are the codes that does the signature onto each and every of your photos in a wrapper div.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.4.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
// define your Signature here!
var signature = "Copyright &copy; adorr.net";
$('#content').children('img').each(function(){
$(this).wrap('<div style="width: ' + $(this).attr("width") + '; height: ' + $(this).attr("height") + ';" />');
});
$('.signed').append('<div>' + signature + '</div>');
});
</script>

HTML

Last but not least, load your photos as usual within a container with ID “content” (you may change this but remember to change it on the CSS and JavaScript as well)

<div id="content">
<img src="http://adorr.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/vintage.jpg" />
<img src="http://adorr.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/cmastreevivo.jpg" />
</div>

For better illustration, click here to see the sample page.

]]> http://adorr.net/2010/12/auto-signed-photos.html/feed 1 Format Numbers to Currency String in VB.NET http://adorr.net/2010/08/format-numbers-to-currency-string-in-vb-net.html http://adorr.net/2010/08/format-numbers-to-currency-string-in-vb-net.html#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:30:49 +0000 d0rr http://adorr.net/?p=1125 I thought it would be helpful to share this piece of simple code

In VB.NET, it is pretty easy to convert a decimal number (say, 12345.6789) to currency format ($12,345.679)

Just convert the number using the lines of code as shown below:

Dim value_int As Integer = 12345.6789 ' original decimal number
Dim digit As Integer = 3 ' to format it to 3 decimal places
Dim value_str As String = value_int.ToString("C" & digit, Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"))

Also check out other cultures available here.

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