Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous stuff that doesn’t really fit into a programming category

Screen Scraping NCAA.org Player Statistics

Posted on April 9, 2012 by squdgy

The NCAA collects player statistics from many different sports, but if you want to get that data, it’s not always easy. It’s not like they have an open API. Recently, I wanted to get the season-long statistics for all NCAA … Continue reading →

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FanDuel Fantasy Football Championship 2011

Posted on February 8, 2012 by squdgy

I’m taking a small break from my technology posts to blog about an event I was privileged (and lucky) to attend in December. It was the FanDuel Fantasy Football Championship which took place in Las Vegas. Anyone that knows me … Continue reading →

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Installing Moodle on Windows 7 for Development

Posted on February 6, 2012 by squdgy

Download Moodle: http://download.moodle.org/ Download WampServer: http://www.wampserver.com/en/ – 64 bit Install WampServer Change port (I needed to do this, because I was running IIS on 80): Left click on the WampServer icon tray, and go to Apache/httpd.conf. Search/Replace 80 to 90. … Continue reading →

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Vermont Hackathon aka VTHackathon

Posted on October 10, 2011 by squdgy

I’ve been attending a lot of free developer events over the last few years. I’ve been incredibly impressed at the generosity of speakers to give their time and of sponsors and hosts to donate space, food, swag, and even significant … Continue reading →

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How to get my mouse unstuck from a virtual pc

Posted on September 7, 2011 by squdgy

For future reference on my Dell Latitude E6410, but probably works on many other pcs: Press the right Alt key, which is the “Host Key” on this laptop. This will release the mouse from the virtual pc. Reference: Switching between … Continue reading →

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Taking a SQL Server Database offline

Posted on June 24, 2011 by squdgy

I’ve had to take a SQL Server database offline several times lately, and I keep forgetting the names of the commands I need to use, so I’m saving them here for future use. To take the database offline: ALTER DATABASE … Continue reading →

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New England Give Camp 2011 Recap – “Code it Forward”

Posted on May 13, 2011 by squdgy

Over the first weekend in May I had the pleasure of joining more than 100 other volunteers to help ~29 non-profits with technical challenges in the 2nd annual New England Give Camp, held at the Microsoft NERD (New England Research … Continue reading →

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Liferay Theme Files Without a Cache-Control Header?!

Posted on March 25, 2011 by squdgy

I ran into an interesting situation with our web application as we started to do some testing where our portal server (Liferay 5.1.2 on tomcat 6) was on the west coast and the testers on the east coast. The application … Continue reading →

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GMail Tries to Prevent You From Making Mistakes?

Posted on March 16, 2011 by squdgy

I was quite suprised today when I sent an email to a colleague, telling them that I attached a file in a web-based system that we use, and got an interesting popup: “Did you mean to attach files? You wrote … Continue reading →

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O’Reilly Media Wish List Contest

Posted on February 21, 2011 by squdgy

O’Reilly is having a wish list contest! http://oreilly.com/new-year-2011. “Compile a wish list of O’Reilly titles — print or ebook or video or all — that you’d like to own, totaling up to $500 in value. Post that list online (your … Continue reading →

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