James Crooke - Web Developer

Cron for Windows IIS

Posted by James on Friday, January 16th, 2009

This is a slightly updated repost of an article I wrote on my old blog. I have had a few requests from people and one from birf to put it back up so here it is;
First, a lesson in the real implementation of cron…
The crontab command, found in Unix operating systems, is used to schedule [...]

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Archive for December, 2008

UK Domain Name Expiry

Monday, December 15th, 2008

I was pleased today as two domains that I have been watching for 99 days exactly, finally became available to register again;
http://www.web-diagnostics.co.uk (and the same domain, just without the hyphen).
Suspended UK Domain Names naturally become available to the public 92 or 99 days from their renewal date.
I have no idea why it is 92 or [...]

MySQL Bubble Results Trick

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

I have discovered a cool MySQL trick that allows you to order a result set by a specified list - before ordering it by column X, Y or Z etc.