Rusty Badger

• @AndyJ Isn’t it a little early for Xmas music? B-> #
• @xebu What happened to the first 5 cats? #
• @pigsie Is it worth losing the rest of your hair? B-> #

• Knee starting to improve – thank <insert deity name here>! #

• Now I have a busted knee to contend with – when does the madness end? B-< #

• As today is a public holiday in Belgium, I’m having a lazy day! B-> #

One of my favourtite bands from my childhood are reforming and touring next year!!!

Keith – are you reading this???  B->

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The German ColdFusion User Group proudly presents the first european ColdFusion Camp in the conference center ‘Orbis’ in Oberschleißheim near Munich.

Speakers on day one include:

• Andy Allan
• Mark Drew
• Gert Franz
• Peter Haak
• Harry Klein
• Luis Majano
• Darren Pywell

For a fee of €35, including food, this is a steal!

Day two is given over to training and the subjects being taught are:

• Advanced ColdFusion Administration and Configuration
• ColdBox
• Getting the most of SVN
• Build your own YouTube with Railo 3.1

Each course has it’s own associated cost, as detailed on their site.

I wonder how far it is to drive from Belgium…?  B->

As a Mac user with clients who are Windows based, I use VMWare Fusion to host a Window XP virtual machine, primarily to enable me to run SQL Server.  Until recently, this was SQL 2000, but as a project I’m currently working on uses SQL 2005, I decided to finally upgrade my VM yesterday.

Everything appeared to go fine, until I tried to restore a backup of a SQL 2005 database onto my newly upgraded server – it basically refused to let me restore the file!

The error message read:

Too many backup devices specified for backup or restore; only 64 are allowed.
RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3205)

Google quickly answered the question: I was trying to restore a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database onto a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 instance.

(Thanks to: http://www.sqlcoffee.com/Troubleshooting023.htm)

Huh!  I thought I had just upgraded?

Some more Googling and I found a suggestion to change the compatibility level of the new, empty database I was trying to restore into.

That idea was quickly scuppered by this message: “Valid values of database compatibility level are 60, 65, 70, or 80″

Pants!

It looks like the SQL 2005 upgrade installed the nice shiny new interface, but didn’t touch the underlying database engine – that’s kind of an issue.  B->

Even more Googling and I’m now regretting the decision not to run the Upgrade Advisor, as it would have highlighted some problems that needed attention before the database engine could be upgraded.

So, as I didn’t fancy working through a long checklist of potential problems and in order to quickly carry on with the work I need to get done this weekend, I’m installing SQL 2005 onto a fresh XP VM while I type these notes up – I’ll have separate VMs for 200 & 2005 – not ideal, but I can live with that.

As I recently had to implement form validation into the application I’m currently developing, I had a look around to see if there were any ‘pret a manger’ (ready to eat) libraries available which might make my life easier.

I found several blogs and forums suggesting that qForms – a JavaScript library dedicated to form validation by Dan Switzer – might fit the bill.

So I grabbed a copy and proceeded to investigate.

What I found was quite a revelation – a simple, yet powerful, ready-to-go library which did everything I needed and much more.  In a few hours I’d downloaded the code, read the documentation, experimented with it and implemented all the form validation across the entire application, about a dozen forms in all.

My sincere thanks to Dan and all the other developers who contributed to this library.

• I’m feeling much better, thanks #

• Great post from The Reg (http://tinyurl.com/63b9×6): Errr.. WoW’s not real? Funny, lately I’ve grown horns, a tail and a whole lot of fur. #
• @pigsie Don’t feel bad Dude! It’s not like you do it EVERY day, now is it? #
• @xebu ..as I know only too well! B-> #
• @xebu A bit, thanks. Managed a half day in the office. B-< #