Update to “Solving Boggle-type word games in Python”
I recently updated the code in my post “Solving Boggle-type word games in Python” to run under Python 3.1.  The previous code ran under 2.6 and there were a few breaking changes between versions. The breaking changes I encountered: print is now a function call raw_input replaced with input No more .has_key() in dictionary objects, instead use in sorted parameters change I also wanted to share a link to a good word list that I found.  I found that if you look for word lists for Scrabble...Solving Boggle-type word games in Python
An update to this post using Python 3.1 is available Recently I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time learning the Python computer programming language. This all began because of an interest in the Google App Engine, which uses Python as the primary language. I decided that it’d been a while since I picked up a new programming language (the last being C#) and I knew I’d have some spare time over the holidays. Anyhow, there are a number of excellent learning resources for Python, but I...
Posted by Aaron on Oct 30, 2008 | 0 comments
More on SharePoint “...
Following up my initial post on the SharePoint “User not found error with Reporting Services in integrated mode, I wanted to post another reason for the “User not found” error. If, somewhere in the site author tree, you have user accounts that no longer exist, you will encounter the “User not found” error while viewing the report and browsing the list of shared data sources. I...
Posted by Aaron on Oct 26, 2008 | 4 comments
6 little things I don̵...
I’ve been using Windows Server 2008 since it was released in February. In general, Server 2008 is a huge improvement over 2003, however, there are a number of little things that annoy me, all of which are also found in Vista. I plan to talk later about my favorite features in Server 2008, but I’ll start with my pet peeves: 1. Folder icons have been turned sideways I understand this was done...
Posted by Aaron on Oct 22, 2008 | 0 comments
T-SQL missing comma in SEL...
I ran in to this “gotcha” the other day while writing a number of views. I omitted a comma on my SELECT statement, and the parser did not return an error, but rather just results that I did not expect. The problem is that SQL Server interprets the missing comma as an implied column name. It is as if there is an unwritten “AS” where the missing comma should go. Screenshots of the...
Posted by Aaron on Oct 22, 2008 | 0 comments
Sorting via parameters in ...
In SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) there are two different methods for a user to sort their reports after they have been generated. Other folks have done a superb job of explaining each method, so I’ll just point you to their sites: The user can interactively sort on a header textbox by just setting the “interactive sort”...
Posted by Aaron on Oct 22, 2008 | 0 comments
Free alternatives to DNSRe...
I used to use the DNSReport from DNSStuff.com, but it seems like they are making it harder to use. I researched some alternatives and I came up with these two that I liked the best: IntoDNS: http://www.intodns.com/ World Wide Web Domain Tools: http://w3dt.net/tools/dnsreport/ Here’s a more exhaustive list with reviews of free alternatives to DNS...
Posted by Aaron on Oct 5, 2008 | 5 comments
Group by month, year, or a...
I found an excellent example of how to group by month in a blog recently. It does require using SharePoint Designer, however. An alternative to grouping this way is to create a calculated column and group on that. The end result looks something like this: : Basically, you just create a new calculated column in the list. Â My original column was a DateTime called “Published”. Â I created a new...
Posted by Aaron on Oct 4, 2008 | 0 comments