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Experiences with phpMyVersion

Hi! I've been looking for an easy and automated way to detect changes on my database structure so I can check them into subversion and be able to roll back to older versions etc. Now I found phpMyVersion, which seems to do exactly that job. I didn't have time to look into it in great detail, but does anyone of you have some experiences...

How can I go about automating the testing of the migration of local web apps from IE6 to IE8?

I have been researching this a wee bit and it seems to boil down to: 'Eyeball Mark 1' The best tip seems to be the use of SuperPreview from Microsoft's Expression team. If anyone has automated a way to go about this I would love to hear about it. Also, I believe that SuperPreview requires a work around for a password protected app to...

Batch File/Script to delete Several non sequential lines from text file(s)

I have read the suggestion listed here. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/418916/delete-certain-lines-in-a-txt-file-via-a-batch-file The batch file solution seems to work untill i get to about 5 ignore conditiobal strings and then the output starts to ignore very large sections of the text files(s) even things it shouldn't. Basically...

Preventing referral scams

How can you prevent "referral scams"? For example, in a wordpress-based site of mine, I suddenly noticed that someone clicked a link from some site I had never heard of. When I followed the link, there was obviously not a link to MY site. The site was selling products, in this case books. All comments followed a similar speech pattern, ...

Remote deployment to Websphere 6.1.x using wsadmin

I am trying to remotely deploy a war file to a websphere application server. I understand this is possible to do using wsadmin, but I am a Websphere newb. I know I can run wsadmin and connect using SOAP to the remote app server, but that is where I am at. This seems like it should be a common use case, can anyone help me with? I supp...

VS.Net - automating "Execute Custom Tool"

My organization has a visual studio (2008) project that contains a slew of Crystal Reports. One thing we'd like to do is have the ability to automate the build of this assembly, especially when either 1) a new report is added to the project, or 2) whenever one of the existing reports is modified. Everything as far as updating th...

Automated Emailer at a set time

Hello. This is my first question so i will try and keep it consise and accurate, but go easy on me if you need to know anything extra. Task: I have intended to write some code to send a newsletter to my members at a set time. (the early hours on a friday or saturday) The actual time does not need to be precise, but it needs to be rough...

How to create and restore backups of the Oracle 10g database by using commanline scripts automatically?

I want to automate the periodic backup and restore of the Oracle 10g Database.Please, someone help me immediately. and please note that I want the task to be performed from the command line scripts. ...

How do websites send email when new answers is posted to question

How do websites send email when new answers is posted to question like if you answer this question, I will get automated email that my question has an answer? ...

Basics of automated tests?

Hi, Till now I've been testing my web (usually written in PHP) as well as desktop applications (normally Java or C#) manually. Now I read somewhere on the net about automated tests. I tried searching to know about it in details but almost all searches end up at things like PHPUnit. Could someone please put some light on the theory behind...

ocunit testing on iPhone

Hi I am trying to get ocunit working in my project from XCode. Since I also need to debug in the unit tests I am using a script that automates the setup (see below). I just include it in the project under resources and change the name to the .ocunit file I want it to run. The problem I get is that it cant find the bundle file and there...

Automated version number in a VC++/CLI app using innosetup to distribute.

I maintain a small app which is built in VC++ 2008 (a .net app) which I distribute using innosetup. Currently I manually update the version number in the header of the main app: static String^ m_version = "1.1"; static String^ m_build = "1"; The software puts this together internally to report v1.1.1 in this case. To do a release I t...

Automated build tools for .NET, VC 6.0 and VB 6.0

Hi all. I wonder if there is any build/continuouse integration tool for building .NET, VC 6.0, and VB 6.0 projects. I read a little bit about CruiseControl, but it seems doesn't support VisualBasic 6.0 stuff. Do you know some others? Thank you in advance. ...

Automated build for MATLAB

Has anyone had success setting up automated builds for MATLAB code? We are manually compiling our MATLAB code into EXE's and distributing them to our servers. If anyone has found a good way to automate this, I'd love to hear it. ...

Perforce Scripted Installer

I was trying to create a scripted installer for P4V. The port settings, user setting and the workspace name are set as specified in the config file. But when I open perforce the connection dialog box throws an error "client 'manojpc' unknown". The following was my configuration file: set P4PORT=server:2345 set INSTMODE=NoPrompt set INS...

How do I overwrite the URL in an IE address bar using RFT?

I need to execute the following steps: 1. Start an IE browser window and open a URL (Done using StartBrowser(final string URL) 2. Start a session (done by logging in) 3. Now, I want to enter a different URL in the same browser window which has the same session. My question is related to Step 3. How can I overwrite the URL in the existin...

Automated registration email

To be short - User registers for the site An email is sent to the user confirming their registration I am using : Asp.net 3.5(C#) Sitefinity as a CMS MS SQL 2008 server r2 My question is what is the best way to automatically send the email? Should it be done in ASP.net or as a database trigger using something like xp_sendmail ...

How can I log on to Windows using a service?

Hi, I have written a Windows service and I am hoping to find a way of having that service log the machine onto Windows. I understand that services and desktops are seperated for security and that the windows logon desktop is probably also secured in other ways - but this must be possible? ...

Are there limits to sending e-mails through GoDaddy hosting?

My friend tells me there's limits to sending automated e-mails from GoDaddy as compared to Yahoo. Is this true? Can someone point me in the right direction? I'm trying to port a site for my friend from yahoo to godaddy hosting and need to be able to send out her music shows every week to about 400 people. Thanks! ...

QTP for Flash - any recommendations for a useful plugin?

hi I am using QTP and need to test a flash application. I found 3 plugins for this purpose: Adobe's actionscript, Experitest's SeeTest and Riatest. Adobe's was heay duty learning and i gave up...can anyone recommend one otfthe other options? or provide additional options? ...