Actuate Report Designer

Actuate file extensions

  • .ba_

  • .bas - This looks like the source code of a report. (Ascii) I made changes (to routines) outside of the designer, went into the designer and found the changes propogated into the application.

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Hexo - Theme - Wikitten

The Wikitten template is pretty cool. Some of the features it includes are

  • The categories are represented as a collapsed treeview control. So if you have lots of pages, in lots of categories, then the collapsable categories control is a good way to sort your content.
  • There is a GIT integration. Each page includes History, Edit, and Source buttons which when clicked takes you into GIT. While this is cool, i do not want this content so I intend to disable it.
  • The Wikitten template is very clean and sharp.
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Hexo - Adding Pictures/Graphics

Hexo has a couple of Native Languages. The one that I use is Markdown, which is a dummied down language designed to create webpages. I create a markdown page and hexo will display it as a static webpage.

The problem I wanted to solve is ‘how do I add a picture to a webpage’

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ADO

ADO - Active Data Objects

Active Data Objects are designed to replace DAO and RDO. Besides databases, they can be used to get at different data sources, in particular databases, but in general any sort of data which can be represented with rows and columns. For example Jet database, Exchange, Proxy server, Index server.

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ADO - Connection.Version

Sometime around ADO 2.8 something happened - some of the web programs around the office broke. To be precise the web pages which downloaded ado record sets to the client computer started getting popup error messages. I started doing some checking around and found different versions of ADO on different computers.

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ADO - Record

The Record object represents things like Directories and Files in a file system, and folders and messages in an e-mail system. A record can also represent a row in a RecordSet. A record has a Field collection.

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ADO - Error

An Error object contains information about a single error or warning from an OLEDB provider. Error objects are contained within a 0-based Errors collection which is referenced from a Connection object.

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