• I prefer to work fast, minimize bullshit, get to the point.
• You will sometimes have bad news for me. I want it immediately. I can usually show you how to fix it. And I never blame the messenger.
• Bring pen and paper to every meeting with me. Pay attention to what I say; I’ll try to speak with care. If I frequently must repeat instructions, or remind you of something I’ve already told you, you will not work with me again.
• If I’ve scheduled a weekly meeting with you, don’t assume that this meeting is the only time to raise issues with me; Interrupt me for time critical issues.
• If you have a meeting with me at an assigned time, and I am in another meeting with my door closed, interrupt me. I stack meetings, and each meeting leads into the next.
• I like “micro-meetings”. Get in quick, bring only the necessary parties to the table, make a decision, get out. Five minutes or less. Make these effective by knowing what decision needs to be made before you start, and presenting the decision criteria ahead of time to all participants.
• Stand during micro-meetings.
• I don’t like email, particularly for discussing complex topics. If a decision needs to be made, do a micro-meeting. If a problem needs to be discussed, ask the person with the most depth to prepare something, an agenda, have a whiteboard, and work through it quickly.
• One exception to the above: I like “micro-updates”: Quick emails confirming time critical commitments and mutual understanding. These are especially useful after we hold a meeting and I give you a set of directives: I always like to hear our agreed-upon commitments echoed back to me. I may not respond, but I will read it. Keep these emails short: Spare me the greetings, thank yous, regards.
• Be consistent in your communication. Use words consistently. Use email headers consistently. Strive to make your work immediately comprehensible.
• If you disagree with me, voice your differences. I welcome and invite dissent. If this makes you uncomfortable, feel free to prepare your thoughts after the meeting and then later return to make your case.
• Ego-driven debates annoy me. Check your ego at the door: I’m only interested in reaching the best, most elegant solution —I don’t care if it’s your idea or mine.
• Don’t be afraid to ask questions if you’re not clear. I have more patience for explaining and clarifying my position before you start than I do patience for fixing a wasteful, incorrect approach after the fact.
• Don’t tell me something is in the process of being done without telling me when it will be done. I’m more interested in the time commitment than the fact that an effort exists.
• Always give me options, informed by an economic analysis where possible (if there are dollars involved, an analysis is mandatory), and then make your recommendation. Don’t tell me there’s a problem without offering a solution. Don’t offer me multiple solutions without giving me your best and final recommendation.
• If you must prepare reports for me, review spreadsheets I’ve created. Copy the style and format.
• Don’t send me long documents. I like precision and concision. Say it on one page (or less).

That’s it.
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Since WordPress 3.1, a lot of new cool features were added. One of the most hated loved ones is the admin-bar. In this article I will cover some of the basic hooks to modify it to suit your needs.
Let’s go:

How to Disable the Admin-Bar

The developers of WordPress made it really easy for you to disable the admin-bar. Simply go to Users > Your Profile and find the section where it says “Show Admin Bar” and tick your choice.
But this is just saved for each users separately. If you are working on a site for a client and you want to get rid of it for each user, then simply open your theme’s function.php and paste the following code:

This will get rid of the admin-bar – if you want to remove the settings in the user profile too, just append this code:

Change the CSS (Move to bottom)

By default, the bar shows on top of each page when you are logged in. If you don’t like that, you can hook your own CSS to the admin-bar and move it to the bottom (and do some more crazy stuff with it).
Simply add this code to your functions:

Now it’s up to you to do some more interesting stuff (like moving the bar to the left/right, let it float, or whatever).

Remove Links from the Admin-Bar

If you want to (or need to) remove links in the admin-bar. this small function will help you:

The way this works is just to provide the IDs for each link to the remove_menu() function.
You can find all default links in /wp-includes/admin-bar.php.

Some of the defaults are:

• my-account / my-account-with-avatar – the first link, to your account
• my-blogs – the ‘My Sites’ menu (for networked blogs)
• get-shortlink -provides a Shortlink to that page
• edit – the edit link
• new-content – the ‘Add New’ drop down
• comments – the ‘Comments’ drop down
• appearance – the ‘Appearance’ drop down
• updates – the ‘Updates’ drop down

Add Links to the Admin-Bar

Here you have a simple way of putting custom links into the admin-bar.

You even can create a custom drop down menu in the admin-bar – just take a look at Michael Martins tutorial to get you started.

That’s it for now – now go and pimp your admin-bar! :)

Teacher: “Hi, this is your son’s school. We’re having some computer trouble.”
Mom: “Oh, dear – Did he break something?”
Teacher: “In a way… Did you really name your son Robert’); DROP TABLE Students;–?”
Mom: “Oh, yes. Little Bobby Tables we call him.”
Teacher: “Well, we’ve lost this year’s student records. I hope you’re  happy.”
Mom: “And I hope you’ve learned to sanitize your database inputs.”

The Code

…and that’s all! Happy debugging!

A programmer is walking along a beach and finds a lamp. He rubs the lamp and a genie appears. “I am the most powerful genie in the world. I can grant you any wish, but only one wish.”

The programmer pulls out a map, points to it and says, “I’d want peace in the Middle East.”

The genie responds, “Gee, I don’t know. Those people have been fighting for millennia. I can do just about anything, but this is likely beyond my limits.”

The programmer then says, “Well, I am a programmer and my programs have lots of users. Please make all my users satisfied with my software and let them ask for sensible changes.”

At which point the genie responds, “Um, let me see that map again.”

Actually it’s not a method for recovering but you can change the forgotten password to a new one.
All you need is to follow this 6 easy steps:

Step 1: Stop the mysql service

Expected Output:

Step 2: Start the MySQL server without password

Expected Output:

Step 3: Connect to your MySQL server using the MySQL client

Expected Output:

Step 4: Setup a new MySQL password for the root user

Expected Output:

Step 5: Stop the MySQL Server

Expected Output:

Step 6: Start the MySQL server and test it

Expected Output:

Now you should be all done!
I hope this helps you as much as it did for me.

What is a CSS Framework?

“A CSS framework is a library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of a webpage using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Just like programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks package a number of ready-made options for designing and outlaying a webpage.” – Wikipedia

One of the cool things in this CSS you can find on line 27/28. This part will grab all links of the document and append the URL to the link-names.

The Source:

To use this Framework, just attach it to your header and choose “print” as media-type.

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The Function:

This function was first introduced by BlackHatDBL.

• converts & to &
• converts < to &lt;
• converts > to &gt;
• converts “ to &quot;
• and converts line-breaks to <br />

The Function:

Here’s a little proposed list for some of them. .NET / C# flavored, of course.

• Falling Down – Created a new SharePoint project
• Job Security – Written a LINQ query with over 30 lines of code
• The Sword Fighter – 5 Consecutive Solution Rebuilds with zero code changes
• Shotgun Debugging – 5 Consecutive Solution Rebuilds with a single character change
• The Mathematician – Defined 15 local variables with a single character name
• The Academic – Written 1000 lines of F#
• Spaghetti Monster – Written a single line with more than 300 characters
• Wild One – Mixed tabs and spaces for indentation more than 5 times in a single line
• The Organizer – Created a Solution with more than 50 projects
• The Portal – Created a circular project dependency
• The Multitasker – Have more than 50 source files open at the same time
• The Code Keeper – Uninstalled Resharper because it made you redundant
• Pasta Chef – Created a class with more than 100 fields, properties or methods
• Procedural Programmer – Created a method with more than 10 out parameters
• Steam Powered – Added Visual Studio as a Steam game
• The Poet – Written a source file with more than 10,000 lines
• The Enterprise – Build Solution took more than 10 minutes
• Highway to Hell – Successfully created a WCF service
• The Explainer – Written a comment with more than 100 words
• TPS Reports – Created a Crystal Reports Project
• Rage Quit – ALT+F4 after a failed bug fix
• Ooooh Shiny – Written 100 extensions methods
• Look Ma – Written an infinite Fibonacci generator using yield
• The Engineer – Killed a zombie with The Wrench
• The Architect – Created 25 Interfaces in a single project
• The Right Way – Test method is longer than the tested method
• The Defender – Checked every argument for null exceptions
• Pokemon Programming – Caught all the exceptions
• Black Magic – Implemented a RealProxy
• Gimme back my ASM – Used ILGenerator
• I’m Sorry – Created a new Visual Basic Project
• The SEO Expert – ASP.NET MVC Routing table with more than 100 routes
• The Matrix – Windows Forms with more than 100 controls
• The Daredevil – UpdatePanels nested more than 3 layers deep
• Just a Test – Nested multiline C-style comments that caused a compilation error
• Warm Bath – Successfully consumed a non .NET SOAP web service
• Old School – Defined more than 100 static objects
• The Cloner – Copy-pasted more than 50 lines
• The Dependency – Referenced more than 30 projects
• Paying the bills – Imported a Visual Basic project
• First Hit – Included a Codeproject.com library into your project and it actually compiled
• Paula – Define a firstname field with value Brillant
• Every Option Considered – Created an enum with more than 30 values

via while true blog.