John begins a quest for an automatic web-based documentation program that will allow him to make some poorly formatted work look consistent on the web.

Hashing passwords is a common way to secure them in a database and make sure that they cannot be read easily.
But did you know there’s a website that reverse engineers the hashes and stores them in a searchable database?
The folks over at RedNoize have created such a site.
Obviously, there’s no better protection than keeping your [...]

I like simple scripts, and this one is so obvious – I wonder why I didn’t think of it:
First, create a folder on your server, and share it as logon$. Make sure that users are given read and write access in the share properties, and in the folder security settings.
Create the following logon scripts and [...]

I found a neat post for setting auto focus without interfering with a user’s input if the page hasn’t yet loaded over at Wait till I come.
It’s quite handy as it discusses the usability of such a feature.

Following my Word to PDF convertor script, here is the Excel version.
Prerequisites
MS Excel 2007
Office 2007 Save As PDF Plugin
Same rules apply. Copy and paste the code into notepad and save onto the desktop as ExceltoPdf.vbs.
‘Excel to PDF
‘By John Reid
‘(c) 2007 bloggingIT – http://ccgi.maxpower.plus.com/wp

‘Feel free to use, modify, and redistribute – just leave the credits intact

‘Quick [...]

Sometimes I find that it’s useful to save my Word documents as PDFs.
After playing around with the Save As PDF plugin for Office, I decided that it would be cool if I could write a script to convert a job lot of Word documents.
Prerequisites
MS Word 2007
Save As PDF Office 2007 Plugin
Just copy and paste the [...]