Microsoft products such as Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 and Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) 3.0 ship with SQL Server 2005 Embedded Edition, also called Windows Internal Database.The Windows Internal Database is an embedded data service that can only be used by a handful of Windows Services. It is designed in such a way that [...]

New Contract I had to take this contract. I was in a contract close to home but the money was poor and worse than that the agency had just gone bust leaving me four month’s out-of-pocket on a six-month gig. Then out of the blue I get a call about a financial-services company wanting someone [...]

I recently created a script that detected if the browser window was still focussed. As long as it was focussed I repeatedly checked some things on the server via an Ajax call. All worked fine in Chrome and Firefox. But when I tested my script in IE7, the focus routine failed.After a little research I [...]