jQuery Tip: Matching Paired Elements
A common task you might want to accomplish in jQuery is to match elements that are paired together. For example, you have a page full of authors and only want to show their biographies if they click on a link.
Your first thought might be to do something like the following:
$("dt").click(function (){
$("dd").slideDown();
});
});
The problem with this approach is that when you click on the <dt /> tag it will open all of the <dd /> tags. This is because the selector being used specifies all of the <dd /> tags and doesn't do anything to filter the tags to the specific matching tag.
What if David Lee Roth tried out for American Idol...
I found this clip on VanHalen.com. It's basically an audio clip of what it might sound like if David Lee Roth tried out for American Idol.
Removing attached PST from corrupted MS Outlook profile
Probably the biggest problem I've had with Microsoft Outlook over the last decade is with my Outlook Profile getting slightly corrupted, preventing me from closing open "archive" PST files. When you attempt to close the PST, you'll see the following message:
Error: The operation failed. An object could not be found.
This is actually caused by a Registry corruption to the Outlook profile that is in use. Microsoft recommends creating a new profile, but that makes you re-create all your E-mail Accounts and you lose your rules, autocomplete addresses, etc. You can back up your rules, but re-creating a profile is a bit of a pain if you have a complex Outlook configuration.
Today I ran into this problem again. I was migrating all my archived "Deleted Items" for 2007 to a new PST so I could permanently archive the file. After moving all the files, I wanted to compress my archived "Deleted Items" folder but couldn't because I was getting this error message.
Since I really didn't want to re-create my profile, I went out searching for a tool that might be able to clean up my profile for me. Fortunately after a few minutes of Googling, I came across CodeTwo PST Ghostbuster.
This program worked like a charm to clean up my profile. You'll want to use the "Backup" feature before you attempt deleting a PST—just to make sure you can restore things if something goes awry.
If I could make an improvement to the program, it would be for the list of PST files to delete to be a select box of attached PST files instead of having to type the name of the PST folder into the text box. However, the program worked as advertised and saved me lots of time since I didn't have to migrate to a new profile.