How to make a cookie enabled form with data that persists on the browser using jQuery, cookies and javascript.

Requirements - a form which remembers values entered at the browser.

See the Pen Persist by Mark Hopgood (@marknhopgood) on CodePen.

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10 Minute Timer - Unbranded Professional Timer

Here's a timer and a video preview that is useful for professional presenters, teachers and those people fed up with inappropriate ads.

I've included a preview video and a link to the actual timer.

Video Preview

Link to Timer

click here to launch timer - F11 makes it full screen, ctrl-r or f-9 for reload

SalesForce questions [answered]

How to get your security token in SalesForce

Login to your orgnistaion and Navigate to At the top navigation bar go to <your name > My Settings > Personal  >  Reset My Security Token.

you will receive an email with your token.

Source: https://success.salesforce.com/answers?id=90630000000glADAAY

Where to find a list of uk holidays for use in php England Wales [ANSWERED]

Firstly here's the England and Wales (UK except Scotland) holidays as an array in PHP called $holidays

$holidays2015=array("2015-12-24","2015-12-25","2015-12-28");
$holidays2016=array("2016-01-01","2016-03-25","2016-03-28","2016-05-02","2016-05-30","2016-08-29","2016-12-26","2016-12-27");
$holidays2017=array("2017-01-02","2017-04-14","2017-04-17","2017-05-01","2017-05-29","2017-08-28","2017-12-25","2017-12-26");

$holidays=array_merge($holidays2015,$holidays2016,$holidays2017);


Here's a function which also has an example. Originally posted by Dave 
http://stackoverflow.com/users/4274143/dave

<?php
//The function returns the no. of business days between two dates and it skips the holidays
function getWorkingDays($startDate,$endDate,$holidays){
    // do strtotime calculations just once
    $endDate = strtotime($endDate);
    $startDate = strtotime($startDate);


    //The total number of days between the two dates. We compute the no. of seconds and divide it to 60*60*24
    //We add one to inlude both dates in the interval.
    $days = ($endDate - $startDate) / 86400 + 1;

    $no_full_weeks = floor($days / 7);
    $no_remaining_days = fmod($days, 7);

    //It will return 1 if it's Monday,.. ,7 for Sunday
    $the_first_day_of_week = date("N", $startDate);
    $the_last_day_of_week = date("N", $endDate);

    //---->The two can be equal in leap years when february has 29 days, the equal sign is added here
    //In the first case the whole interval is within a week, in the second case the interval falls in two weeks.
    if ($the_first_day_of_week <= $the_last_day_of_week) {
        if ($the_first_day_of_week <= 6 && 6 <= $the_last_day_of_week) $no_remaining_days--;
        if ($the_first_day_of_week <= 7 && 7 <= $the_last_day_of_week) $no_remaining_days--;
    }
    else {
        // (edit by Tokes to fix an edge case where the start day was a Sunday
        // and the end day was NOT a Saturday)

        // the day of the week for start is later than the day of the week for end
        if ($the_first_day_of_week == 7) {
            // if the start date is a Sunday, then we definitely subtract 1 day
            $no_remaining_days--;

            if ($the_last_day_of_week == 6) {
                // if the end date is a Saturday, then we subtract another day
                $no_remaining_days--;
            }
        }
        else {
            // the start date was a Saturday (or earlier), and the end date was (Mon..Fri)
            // so we skip an entire weekend and subtract 2 days
            $no_remaining_days -= 2;
        }
    }

    //The no. of business days is: (number of weeks between the two dates) * (5 working days) + the remainder
//---->february in none leap years gave a remainder of 0 but still calculated weekends between first and last day, this is one way to fix it
   $workingDays = $no_full_weeks * 5;
    if ($no_remaining_days > 0 )
    {
      $workingDays += $no_remaining_days;
    }

    //We subtract the holidays
    foreach($holidays as $holiday){
        $time_stamp=strtotime($holiday);
        //If the holiday doesn't fall in weekend
        if ($startDate <= $time_stamp && $time_stamp <= $endDate && date("N",$time_stamp) != 6 && date("N",$time_stamp) != 7)
            $workingDays--;
    }

    return $workingDays;
}

//Example:

$holidays2015=array("2015-12-24","2015-12-25","2015-12-28");
$holidays2016=array("2016-01-01","2016-03-25","2016-03-28","2016-05-02","2016-05-30","2016-08-29","2016-12-26","2016-12-27");
$holidays2017=array("2017-01-02","2017-04-14","2017-04-17","2017-05-01","2017-05-29","2017-08-28","2017-12-25","2017-12-26");

$holidays=array_merge($holidays2015,$holidays2016,$holidays2017);

#echo getWorkingDays("2015-09-08","2015-09-10",$holidays);
// => will return 3
?>

search php files for text in unix (ubuntu) using grep

grep -R --include="*.php" "pattern" /path/to/dir

that's it

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windows 7 pro 64 bit - how to reduce the datastore.edb file [answered]

ANSWER: defrag the database using esentutl.exe

Here's what I did

stop windows update service

C:\Windows\system32>esentutl /d C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb

Extensible Storage Engine Utilities for Microsoft(R) Windows(R)
Version 6.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Initiating DEFRAGMENTATION mode...

            Database: C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb


                  Defragmentation Status (% complete)

          0    10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90  100
          |----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
          ...................................................


Moving 'TEMPDFRG4872.EDB' to 'C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb'..

Note:
  It is recommended that you immediately perform a full backup
  of this database. If you restore a backup made before the
  defragmentation, the database will be rolled back to the state
  it was in at the time of that backup.

Operation completed successfully in 100.875 seconds.



Now i have an extra 400MB free - makes the difference on windows 7 with an ssd!

if you get the following error, make sure windows update service is stopped...

Error: Access to source database 'C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\Data
Store.edb' failed with Jet error -1032.

Operation terminated with error -1032 (JET_errFileAccessDenied, Cannot access fi
le, the file is locked or in use) after 20.30 seconds.

reduce size of datastore.edb