Jalaj P. Jha

Technical & Miscellaneous Ramblings

Archive for November, 2007

Int() and Val() in JavaScript

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Coders working with VB family of languages have tough time when it comes to Web development with JavaScript. They have choice of VBScript but that could not be considered for the want of cross-browser compatibility. One of such developers is me, myself. First it was my search for Asc() and Chr() in JavaScript and now I take here Int() and Val() functions. Lets start with code if you want in VB way.
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November 29th, 2007 at 4:35 am

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Tweaking Registry for Task Bar in Vista

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November 28th, 2007 at 12:39 pm

How Many MegaPixels is a VGA Camera

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While high end camera have gone upto and more than 10 MegaPixels there are still many VGA Digital cameras in the market, specially the ones with Mobile phones. If you ever asked the dealer hom many MegaPixels is the VGA camera and ‘VGA cameras are a Class apart’, ‘They are not termed in MegaPixel…’ or similar to one of this reason is being conveyed to you then the dealer is misleading you either because of ignorance or for intention.
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November 28th, 2007 at 5:51 am

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The Blog Revisited - 9

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This is the last part on “The Blog Revisited” before going ahead with regular posting. All posts that appeared June onwards (number was comparatively low) are covered here.
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The Blog Revisited - 8

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Three of the posts in May were related to MS Project, discussing scheduling of tasks and setting deadlines and constraints.
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The Blog Revisited - 7

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Databases allow datatypes that can store unicode data, then why was it that while MS-Access successfully stored Unicode data whereas MS-SQL server failed when I first tried. See how to handle Unicode data in Storing Unicode Data in Databases.
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