Viewpoint from the Web

I’m putting up all tools ans scriptlets I make for helping me with web developmet up on my Software & Web Development site at http://t.prosignia.net/

Check ‘em out. You might find them helpful.

If you edit any of the wordpress system files or even just the functions.php of a template, make sure there are no spaces before the <?php or after the ?>.

If you do, it’ll just cause you grief. Some pages will be visible while others will have the following error:

Cannot modify header information - headers already sent

I guess it happens because functions.php is included before it sets the http headers. I haven’t looked at the code enough to figure out where the header is written, so no leading or trailing spaces in wordpress system php files!

Base is the database package that comes with openoffice.org 2.x. It seems quite OK as a desktop database package. But, I’ve found that resources for macro editing in basic for base are quite scarce. This is quite a problem since the editor it comes with doesn’t have intellisense/autocomplete. The uno documentation is way too big to be of any real use as a reference document. So I thought I’ll just write a beginners tutorial for connecting to the base database that is currently open from a form using openoffice.org basic macro. Read the rest of this article »