migration

How to migrate from MiaCMS to Joomla 1.5?

How do I convert from MiaCMS to Joomla? They both have a common ancestry in Mambo CMS (RIP). Now that MiaCMS is going the same way I need to move to something else and Joomla seems to be the best choice. There should be enough commonality to port over. And MiaCMS has a porting instructions from Mambo that could possibly be used to create...

VB to C# or VB.net conversion

I have a VB application. Clients wanted to convert that to a .net application. I would like to go ahead and convert that to C# windows application. But I am not sure on challenges that I will be facing. One method is to just understand the VB code and rewrite all the modules in C# or VB .net The other way that I am not aware of is the ...

Convert SQL Server database to MySQL

I have an application database on SQL Server 2008 Express on my dedicated server. It's not enough for my web app. Are there any good free conversion tools that will enable me to convert my current SQL Server database to MySQL on my server. Will my web app be able to work the same? ...

What are the factors to be considered when migrating to an earlier version of C#?

Thus far, I've worked with C# 3.0 for all my applications and I've never worked with C# 2.0. But now I have to work with C# 2.0 for my next project. What are the factors to be considered when migrating to an earlier version of C#? Is it tough to adapt/live with am earlier version? What are the classes/libraries that I'll miss when mov...

Auto increment a non-primary key field in Ruby on Rails

In a RoR migration, how do I auto increment a non-primary-key field? I'd like to do this in the db definition, and not in the model. ...

How can I add a column to reference to another table on RoR?

Here is the Customer: class CreateCustomer < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :customers do |t| t.column :email, :string, :null => false end end def self.down drop_table :customers end end And this is the customer Info: class CustomerInfo...

Rolling up Migrations?

As I understand it the point of migrations is so you can revert the database back to a known state during the last stages of development. Right now I'm still "fleshing" out my first Rails app and I'm wondering if its ok to roll up my migrations into bigger ones rather than dozens of changes. ...

silverlight4 tools for visual studio 2010 fails with the following error... HELP!

Hi, I am trying to migrate my silverlight applications from version 3 to version 4. I've been running into this problem. when i try to install silverlight4 tools for visual studio 2010 Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 or Visual Phone Developer Express 2010 that matches the language version of Silverlight Tools...

Migrate from Spring 2.5 to 3 within an existing Axis 1.4 webservice

I have to migrate from Spring 2.5 to 3.0. My web services are still running with Axis 1.4, with Spring 2.5 I was rather simple, every class of a service implementation extends the ServletEndpointSupport. In Spring 3.0 the ServletEndpointSupport is deprecated. For example: public class PersonBindingImpl extends ServletEndpointSupport i...

iPhone Core Data Migration With Multiple Models

Hi, I have two models at my project, I want to allow versions to one of them. Here's what I did: Selected the modelOne.xcdatamodel then Design > Data Model > Add Model Version. Clicked command + i then add version to modelOne.xcdatamodel inside modelOne.xcdatamodeld Modified modelOne.xcdatamodel, just added some attribute. At the del...

rails rolling back migration permanently then branching

This is a rails question about migration versions So i have a few migrations already existing. i.e. in my db/migrate/ folder i have some files like this: 1_add_products.rb 2_add_customers.rb 3_add_addresses.rb 4_add_tags.rb and i've ran "rake db:migrate" so the current version is 4. I want to go back to version 2 permanently and sta...

How to change the name of a database model and table in Rails?

Lots out there about changing model names only or mapping new models to existing tables, but nothing about renaming both at the same time. For now, I'm starting with the DB table and working my way out with Find/Replace in my code, but I'm surprised there isn't something better or at least someone who's tried it and written about it. ...

SEO and migrating to ASP.Net MVC

It's well-past time for The Office's websites to be upgraded and for the main public one, I'm considering migrating the existing .Net 1.1 ugliness up to ASP.Net MVC. The only real doubt I have is over the fairly extensive work on SEO that has been carried out on the site. What considerations should I bear in mind regarding SEO when mov...

The simplest way to convert EJB 2.0 project to EJB 3.0

What is the simplest way to convert EJB 2.0 (WebLogic 8.1) project to EJB 3.0 (OAS or WebLogic etc)? I found just this article "Converting an EJB 2.0 Entity Bean to EJB 3.0", which could automate this process, but forced to do too much manual manipulations. ...

Help with Estimating a Data Migration

Our client has a completely custom CMS that was built in ASP 1.1 and later upgraded to 2.0. The database has over 200 tables, and unfortunately, there's no documentation for either the ASP code or the database. The original developers are unavailable for questioning, and no one at my company is familiar with the setup. The majority of t...

Transferring a site - various file issues

I am putting an old website up on a new server and i've noticed various issues. Firstly, if i look at any of the files locally they all have double line spacing - anywhere there is a newline there has also been a blank line inserted. This is the same in netbeans and notepad++. Then, when i SFTP the files to the server and view them in Vi...

.NET migrations: Setup and migrate multiple databases at runtime

Hi guys, Brief introduction: I have this ASP.NET Webforms site with the particularity that it doesn't have only 1 database, it has many. Why? Because you can create new "instances" of the site on-the-fly. Every "instance" share the same codebase, but has its own database. These all databases have the same schema (structure) but of cours...

Is there a work around for number_format() in PHP5 returning NULL for empty strings?

We are currently migrating from PHP4 to PHP5 and have discovered an issue. In PHP4, when we used the number_format() function on an empty string the output would be 0. However, in PHP5, running the same empty string through the number_format() function results in output of NULL. This has a ripple effect on a lot of our code that is no...

Opening adt , adi and adm files

Hi All, I am developing a web application and I have a folder containing a bunch of files with .adm , .adi and .adt and .bak extensions.I want to be able to read this data and convert put it in mysql db. I have figured that these are files stored by sybase in its proprietary format. I have opening with sybase advantage server but the fo...

Compare two websites and see if they are "equal?"

We are migrating web servers, and it would be nice to have an automated way to check some of the basic site structure to see if the rendered pages are the same on the new server as the old server. I was just wondering if anyone knew of anything to assist in this task? ...