Work

Access Data Projects and Microsoft Office 2013

When Microsoft released the 2013 version of their Office suite, the version of Microsoft Access that was included dropped support for a feature known as Access Data Projects.   Access Data Projects were a (in my opinion) little used feature of earlier versions of Access that allowed you to create an OLEDB connection from a users desktop copy of Microsoft…

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Tech, Web, Work

Automatically insert Google Analytics tracking code as an outbound IIS rule

Google Analytics is a wonderful tool for tracking the behavior of visitors to a web site, but one of the things that has always been challenging for site administrators is finding a way to embed the javascript necessary to track visits via Google Analytics in to every page on a web server.  Google recommends strategies like providing server-side includes with…

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Kids

Happy 11th Birthday to my favorite girl in the world

None of these things existed until after Sydney was born: The Department of Homeland Security The XBox 360 The Nintendo Wii Commercial 3G or 4G cellular networks The iPhone The final three Harry Potter books The Tea Party These things were still true: Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden were both at large Michael Jackson was still very much alive Arnold…

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Work

Tales from Higher Ed: CMS Choices Edition

  The chart you see above represents an interest of “hype” chart of four popular content-management system choices over the last several years. In blue, you see WordPress, red is Joomla, yellow is Drupal, and green is the less prominent “Concrete5”.  Expression Engine was charted, but it didn’t even register so I removed it. When I joined Marshall University in…

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