For a recent project, I've been using the latest Release Candidate of the new ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as Atlas) framework from Microsoft.
Sometimes we need to generate a simple list from a SQL Server database and store that list in comma separated values (CSV) or Excel format. It is simple enough to use Query Analyzer to create and run a query. But it is not as simple to export the results of that query to a CSV file, especially if any column in the result set has values containing a comma. SQL Server does not use quotes in the exported file to qualify the data in columns containing text. As a result, if a column contains something like "Big Company, Inc." the text after the comma will be treated as another column - in this example containing " Inc."
Just a quick recap and aggregation of links I used to set up a VMware virtual machine running Ubuntu 6.06 with Apache 2.2, Mongrel and Ruby on Rails. These links don't discuss creating a virtual machine and assume it's already set up and has internet connectivity.
Here's a little "how to" I recently picked up while working on the Humboldt Community Christian School web site.
The site uses the Event module. The default formatting for the "Upcoming events" block shows the number of days until the event will occur, rather than the date of the event. Not helpful. While it is interesting to know the number of days until the event will occur, visitors checking the date of the event against their own calendar will want to know the date of the event.
