The following script allows you to generate an excel spreadsheet from data stored in an access database.

You can save your frequently used Find and Replace searches so that you no longer have to recreate it each time you want to use it. To do this:

You can specify which font and size to be used for the default Proportional font, Fixed font, and Code view. To do this:

You can make Visual Web Developer open much quicker by having it open to an empty environment instead of going to the default Start Page. To do this:

Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu Linux isn’t quite as easy as installing it on other operating systems. Here’s a recipe that’ll get you up and running in no time.

Tagging is all the rage in the web 2.0 universe. For you aspiring Ruby on Rails developers, you are in luck, because there is a great plugin that makes adding tagging into your application a breeze. This recipe describes using the acts_as_taggable plugin on Rails 1.1

Cookies may be created with an expiration time. It may become necessary to expire a cookie before the expiration time such as when a user logs out of a cookie-based authentication web application. This recipe describes expiring a cookie.

Once your web application has set a cookie in a user’s browser, it is a simple matter to retrieve that value in subsequent page requests. This recipe describes reading a value from a cookie in PHP.

Web applications overcome the lack of session support in the HTTP protocol primarily through the use of cookies. Transparent to the user and simple for the web developer, cookies provide the foundation of keeping up with who a web user is, where they’ve been, and what they had for lunch. Well, who and where, anyway.

Working with server-side files with PHP adds a great deal of flexibility to some applications. A common scenario when working with files involves creating a temporary file through uploading or other means and then renaming this file to a permanent location. This recipe describes changing the name of an existing file using the PHP function [...]