I found it tedious and time wasting (the manual formatting, not the user’s request )

This macro below will automatically set all columns to auto-fit and wrap those columns that are too wide.

To add macro to your Excel, follow these steps:

1. Click Tools -> Macro -> Record New Macro
2. Give the Macro a meaningful name and description. The shortcut key is optional. If you want to make the Macro available in any Excel in your PC, store the macro in “Personal Macro Workbook”. Click OK to continue.
   
3. A small floating window will appear. Click the ‘Stop Recording’ button.
4. Click Tools -> Macro -> Visual Basic Editor (or press Alt-F11)
5. Complete the code as shown below
6. Save it. The macro now will be run whenever you press the shortcut key (if you defined it), or you could find the macro through clicking Tools -> Macro -> Macros (or by pressing Alt-F8)

Sub FormatQueryResult()
'
' FormatQueryResult Macro
' To make the Database query result less irritating to the eyes
'
    Dim i As Integer 'counter
    SendKeys "^a", True 'Send Ctrl-A to select All

    'Make the column auto fit
    For i = 1 To Selection.Columns.Count
        ActiveSheet.Columns(i).AutoFit
    Next

    'Wrap columns that are too wide
    For i = 1 To Selection.Columns.Count
       If ActiveSheet.Columns(i).Width >= 250 Then
            ActiveSheet.Columns(i).ColumnWidth = 65
            ActiveSheet.Columns(i).WrapText = True
        End If
    Next
End Sub

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Number of NRIC(s): 15 10 Prefix: A B CD EF GHI J KL MNOPQRSTUVW XYZ

]]> Disclaimer: The NRIC Generator above is NOT to be used for any illegal purposes. The author holds no responsibility in whatever the user of this NRIC Generator does with the generated NRIC.

Modified from the original version found HERE



Number of NRIC(s):
1510


Prefix:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ






]]> http://sodeve.net/nric-generator/feed/ 3 http://sodeve.net/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/ http://sodeve.net/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:29:07 +0000 Hardono Arifanto http://sodeve.net/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/ Foxit Reader very much. It's fast, small and give you pretty much everything you need for a PDF Reader. Although they have the Linux version, I don't really like it because I don't seem to be able to automatically open a PDF file with a single click from Nautilus (although I already set ReaderLinux as the default Application).

 

Before we proceed, I am assuming you already have Wine up & running, and have installed the Windows version of Foxit Reader. What we need to do next is to associate the PDF file to Foxit Reader through Wine in Nautilus (or other File Manager that you have). If you have not install Wine, you could read the tutorial HERE.

 

]]> I like Foxit Reader very much. It’s fast, small and give you pretty much everything you need for a PDF Reader. Although they have the Linux version, I don’t really like it because I don’t seem to be able to automatically open a PDF file with a single click from Nautilus (although I already set ReaderLinux as the default Application).

Before we proceed, I am assuming you already have Wine up & running, and have installed the Windows version of Foxit Reader. What we need to do next is to associate the PDF file to Foxit Reader through Wine in Nautilus (or other File Manager that you have). If you have not install Wine, you could read the tutorial HERE.

After you have Wine up and running, download the Windows version of Foxit Reader HERE. Install it using the default settings.

First save the following script as foxit.sh in your home directory

#!/bin/bash
# Purpose: To convert Linux-style filename to Windows-style to pass as an argument
# to wine when starting Foxit Reader
Filename="z:"${1//\//\\}
#assuming you use the default installation folder for Foxit in Wine
App='eval wine "C:\Program Files\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\Foxit Reader.exe" "'$Filename'"'
$App

Use foxit.sh as the Default Application for PDF File (select any PDF file in Nautilus, Right-Click -> Properties -> Open With -> Click [+ Add] Button -> Browse for foxit.sh located in your home folder.

Voila! Foxit Reader is now the default application for your PDF documents.

(Disclaimer: This post was based on 64-bit Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and Foxit Reader 2.1 Build 2023)

Download foxit.sh

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Motivation

I am currently creating a RichTextBox control that will format and highlight the SQL string. I notice that the current regex that I used is not match correctly to a certain combination of SQL-style string.

Consider we have the following SQL statement:

Print ‘Testing Regex’s String Matching’; Print ‘ ‘;

First Try

‘.*’

Print ‘Testing Regex’s String Matching’; Print ‘ ‘;

This is incorrect. The regex should only match those within two single-quotes, not expand to the last single-quote.

(After n-Try)

‘.*?[^\]‘

Print ‘Testing Regex’s String Matching’; Print ‘ ‘;

This should be the correct one.

For those who want to practice their Regular Expression skill, try to download THIS software, it’s free and it’s really good for Regex practice.

Credit goes to Buddie for pointing out this PAGE.

UPDATE (22 Sep 2007)

As it turns out, I totally forgot that SQL-style string doesn’t use ‘ (backslash-quote) but uses ” (quote-quote). So things getting more complicated now.
So we need to change the string into something like this:

Print ‘Testing Regex’’s String Matching’; Print ‘ ‘;

Another Try

‘[a-zA-Z ]*(”)*[a-zA-Z ]*’

Print ‘Testing Regex’’s String Matching’; Print ‘ ‘;

But if we change the input string into

Print ‘Testing Regex’’s String’’s Matching’; Print ‘ ‘;

It becomes

Print ‘Testing Regex’’s String’’s Matching’; Print ‘ ‘;

Which is wrong.

Finally

‘([a-zA-Z ]*(”)*)*’

Print ‘Testing Regex’’s String” Matching’; Print ‘ ‘;

This should be the correct one.

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Overview

WP-Translate is a simple drop in way for users to view your blog in their language. Its easy for any most users to add this functionality to their site.

WP-Translate utilizes the following Online translation services:

1. Alta Vista's Babel Fish (for translation from English to : French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified/Traditional Chinese)
2. IBM's Websphere Translation (for translation from English to: Brazilian Portuguese)
3. Interpret (for translation from English to: Bahasa Indonesia, Swedish, Norwegian, Afrikaans)

WP-Translate 2.2 Release Notes

Added the following language for translation:

1. Swedish
2. Norwegian
3. Bahasa Indonesia
4. Afrikaans
5. Chinese Traditional
6. Brazilian Portuguese

Requirements

WP-Translate works with Wordpress 1.5 up to Wordpress 2.2 (Tested on Wordpress 2.2)

Your web server should able to execute PHP.

Installation instructions

1. Upload the wp-translate directory to your plugins folder, usually wp-content/plugins/
2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
3. Add <?php wptranslate(n); ?> to your template where you want the list. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.

Special Installation instructions for non-Wordpress users

As I mentioned before, as long as your Web server supports PHP you should be able to use this plugin. Please follow this steps:

1. Extract the zip file
2. Edit wp-translate.php which is located in wp-translate directory
3. At line 103, replace $img_loc = get_settings(’siteurl’) . ‘/wp-content/plugins/wp-translate’; with $img_loc = ‘/wp-translate’;
4. Save the file
5. Upload the wp-translate directory to your root folder.
6. In the page you want the flags to be displayed, put <?php include_once(realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']).’/wp-translate/wp-translate.php’); ?> in the first line of the file.
7. Add <?php wptranslate(n); ?> anywhere you want the flags to be displayed. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.
]]> Hi all. I have managed to patch the WP-Translate and tested it on Wordpress 2.2.

Current Version: 2.2

Overview

WP-Translate is a simple drop in way for users to view your blog in their language. Its easy for any most users to add this functionality to their site.

WP-Translate utilizes the following Online translation services:

1. Alta Vista’s Babel Fish (for translation from English to : French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified/Traditional Chinese)
2. IBM’s Websphere Translation (for translation from English to: Brazilian Portuguese)
3. Interpret (for translation from English to: Bahasa Indonesia, Swedish, Norwegian, Afrikaans)

WP-Translate 2.2 Release Notes

Added the following language for translation:

1. Swedish
2. Norwegian
3. Bahasa Indonesia
4. Afrikaans
5. Chinese Traditional
6. Brazilian Portuguese

Requirements

WP-Translate works with Wordpress 1.5 up to Wordpress 2.2 (Tested on Wordpress 2.2)

Your web server should able to execute PHP.

Installation instructions

1. Upload the wp-translate directory to your plugins folder, usually wp-content/plugins/
2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
3. Add <?php wptranslate(n); ?> to your template where you want the list. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.

Special Installation instructions for non-Wordpress users

As I mentioned before, as long as your Web server supports PHP you should be able to use this plugin. Please follow this steps:

1. Extract the zip file
2. Edit wp-translate.php which is located in wp-translate directory
3. At line 103, replace $img_loc = get_settings(’siteurl’) . ‘/wp-content/plugins/wp-translate’; with $img_loc = ‘/wp-translate’;
4. Save the file
5. Upload the wp-translate directory to your root folder.
6. In the page you want the flags to be displayed, put <?php include_once(realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']).’/wp-translate/wp-translate.php’); ?> in the first line of the file.
7. Add <?php wptranslate(n); ?> anywhere you want the flags to be displayed. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.

Download Sodeve’s WP-Translate 2.2

The previous version can be found here:Sodeve’s WP-Translate 2.1

If you like this plugin, please link-back to this post, or add me to your blog-roll. Would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Having problem with installing the plugin? You have ideas for the plugin? Post a comment and I will try my best to help you.

Update: 5 June 2007

Users of this plugin:

1. Myself (^_^)v
2. Founders Cafe
3. Your Blog?
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