Jarosław Dobrzański’s technical blog
After a couple of years in Kainos I’ve decided to change my job. Starting from November 1st, I’ve been working for Intel Corporation in a team that develops Intel Upgrade Service (please refer to that link to get more information on that platform).
In short, a lot of new techniques, technologies, tools, information. It sounds appealing and challenging though 
Anyway, wish me luck!
P.S. I’ve updated my CV, if you like.
After a while (busy days…) I’ve got a new book: Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming by Robert Vieira.
I’m not considering myslef a SQL Server expert but to be honest I was afraid of this beginning word in the title. Yet I’ve been using SQL Server for a couple of years (apart from Java, C#, etc. – so not full time SQL developing). Also I attended a few SQL related courses when I was at the university. So I should have quite solid theoretical and pratctical background. However, as I was not working with SQL Server full time I decided to give that book a bash. You can always stop reading if you don’t like the book
I’m going to Microsoft Technology Summit (MTS) 2009 which takes place in Warsaw, Poland on September 29th-30th. This is the biggest Microsoft (.NET, SQL Server, Windows platform) related conference that takes place in Poland.
This will be the first time for me. I’ve never been to this conference but heard it’s decent – good speakers, lots of information is passed, highly developing. We’ll see how it will be but I expect to get back home overwhelmed with new knowledge, both theoretical and practical.
Is anyone of you, readers of this blog, attending this conference too?
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If you are reading this post or my blog in general, you probably are a software enginner, programmer, designer – a person who spends considerable amount of time at their desk, similar to me.
Continue reading ‘How to motivate oneself to take short breaks at work?’
Yesterday I wrote about a problem I came across using AddThis service. Today I had a new issue.
This is an example of the code generated by AddThis:
It’s said what you need to do is to include it in your page and AddThis will do all the work for you. Now, it didn’t in my case…
AddThis is a great service – it allows robust integration with online services, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, del.icio.us. What you need to do is to get your button’s code on AddThis homepage and use it in your project. Additionally you can configure the widget; you can refer to AddThis API, where you can find needed information and examples.
I created a component which I included on a couple of pages. I was very happy to use it until I started testing my pages on different browsers. It turned out there was a problem on IE (only; why didn’t that surprise me…); in two of three places it worked just fine but in one place I was getting JavaScript error:
As usual JavaScript error message on IE gave little (if not zero) information on the error. The only statement to give was the problem was on AddThis side. Unfortunately debugging their code was not the best case because the referenced library was obfuscated and (rather not) dedicated to a human being.
Continue reading ‘AddThis on IE – Object doesn’t support this property or method’
I created a report with SQL Server Reporting Services. It displayed some data and the toolbar with list of checkboxes that defined which columns should be displayed on the report (see the screenshot below). The problem was the font on the toolbar didn’t match the font on the report, i.e. it was huge in comparison to the report. In short it needed resizing…
Continue reading ‘Reporting Services – how to change font style in the toolbar of ReportViewer?’
I spend too long on finding the solution for this problem…
Basically I had a table which looked like this
What I wanted was to select all as one row as a set of items separated with a comma, where an item was ‘id: name’. The items had to be sorted by the id. So the result was supposed to look as below:
Continue reading ‘T-SQL – How to select multiple rows into a single row’
Out of the blue when I started my laptop (Dell D600, Windows XP SP2) I started getting the following error:
Wireless Configuration
Incorrect MFC DLL version installed on this system; minimum requirement is MFC SP4 Dlls.
The message wouldn’t stop popping up, rebooting didn’t help.
Google was not much of help there. The best advice found was this; it didn’t help though. Finally I decided to remove Dell Wireless Manager because… it had the same icon that this annoying pop-up This helped!
At the moment I can’t do much more about the wireless because my router is in the service. When it’s back I’m going to reinstall the software for wireless and I hope all works grand. If I have any problems I’ll update this post.
I’m sorry if you are an English spoken reader but this post is published in Polish. The reason for that is it describes a problem with encoding of some Polish characters after upgrading to Wordpress 2.8, so a problem that only Poles should be interested in.
This blog is still supposed to be maintained in English so please do not get discouraged.
Dziś postanowiłem zrobić upgrade swojego fotobloga z Wordpress 2.6.1 na 2.8. Wszystko poszło sprawnie ale okazało się, że kodowanie polskich znaków totalnie się posypało – zamiast nich kwadraciki i krzaczki.
Pomimo mocnego zaplecza, przyznam, że zabawa z kodowaniem znaków totalnie mi nie odpowiada. Miałem już kiedyś problem z ukraińską stroną znimky.net, która stała się nieczytelna po zmianie MySQL z 4.0 na 4.1. Po długich bojach problem został rozwiązany poprzez dodanie poniższych 3 linii kodu PHP po ustnawieniu połączenia z bazą danych:
mysql_query("SET character_set_results=\"utf8\"");
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8");
mysql_query("SET NAMES \"utf8\"");
Zacząłem szukać ale nie znalazłem zbyt wiele…
Continue reading ‘Upgrade do Wordpress 2.8 i problem z kodowaniem polskich znaków [PL]‘
Software engineer at Intel Corporation.
Particularly interested in Microsoft .NET platform, Java/JEE and web technologies.
