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Easy French Reader 6

Posted by Roger Keays, 14 July 2008, 12:00 PM

  • toujours (adv) - Il y a toujours des exceptions.
  • nouveau (adj) - Elle apprendre de nouveaux mots français.
  • comme (prep) - Parce que c'est comme ca.
  • pourquoi (pron) - Pourquoi tu dis non?
  • à cause de (prep) - C'est à cause de ton tempérament anglo-saxon.

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Deleting Duplicate Database Rows

Posted by Roger Keays, 13 July 2008, 9:20 PM

Coming up with a query to find duplicate rows in a database is not as easy as it should be and always turns out dog slow. Here's a simple alternative which I used when I had to do just that:

  • Dump the database.
  • Delete all the records.
  • Add a UNIQUE constraint on the natural key.
  • Reload the records from the database dump.

If you have duplicates in the dump, the INSERT will fail and they won't make it back into the database.

Easy or WHAT?!

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position: fixed on IE6

Posted by Roger Keays, 13 July 2008, 9:10 PM

Just for the record, here's a common workaround for IE's lack of support for position: fixed.

element { top: expression( document.body.scrollTop + 'px' ); }

Oh, and while I'm at it, here is a common workaround for just about every layout defect in Internet Explorer (especially those involving floats):

element { zoom: 1; }

Heck, here's another one to use if your text gets cut off because of incorrectly inherited line-heights in IE:

element { line-height: normal; }

We could go on like this all night really.

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Easy French Reader 5

Posted by Roger Keays, 13 July 2008, 12:00 PM

  • vers (prep) - Elle va vers la fenêtre.
  • du (prep) - Elle se poser sur le tête du professeur.
  • au (prep) - La mouche va ensuite au plafond.
  • votre (det) - Il y a une mouche sur votre tête.
  • (pron) - est la mouche?

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Easy French Reader 4

Posted by Roger Keays, 12 July 2008, 10:52 PM

  • cette (det) - Dans cette classe, on parle français.
  • ensuite (adv) - Ensuite, le professeur commence.
  • mais (conj) - Les élèves sont américains, mais le professeur est français.
  • au (prep) - Elle étudie au Conservatoire.
  • du (prep) - Du salon, on a une vue splendide.
  • des (det) - Il y a des garçons et des filles.

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Words from the Web

Posted by Roger Keays, 12 July 2008, 12:00 PM

  • intuit (v) - I started to intuit that the fabled ‘access’ to the subject of our book was becoming tenuous.
  • enlightenment (n) - The man who has attained enlightenment sees that the apparent reality is mere illusion.
  • minutia (n) - Every so often it is tempting to get wrapped up in minutia and having it obscure the bigger picture.
  • histrionic (adj) - Histrionic personalities have an unhealthy need for constant attention and engage in outrageous behavior.

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Easy French Reader 3

Posted by Roger Keays, 11 July 2008, 12:00 PM

  • autre (adj) - Elle parle d'autres choses.
  • surtout (adv) - Il aime surtout faire de la boxe.
  • plus (adv) - Il est plus bavard que son amie.
  • plus que (adv) - Il parle plus que elle.
  • quand (rel adv) - Quand ils sont ensemble, ils parlent beaucoup.
  • (dem pn) - C'est qu'elle lui rencontre.
  • pendant (prep) - Pendant les vacances d'hiver, la famille va en Savoie.
  • pour (prep) - Il est journaliste pour un journal.

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Words in the Wild

Posted by Roger Keays, 11 July 2008, 12:00 PM

  • undergird - What is the difference between moral values which undergird commercialism and other moral values?
  • tactile (adj) - You're more of a tactile person.

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Français Façile

Posted by Roger Keays, 11 July 2008, 12:14 AM

  • à côte de - Le chambre est à côte de la salon.
  • sur (prep) - Il y a une vue sur la tour Eiffel.
  • dans (prep) - Dans le salon, il y a un piano.
  • à (prep) - Ils habitent à Paris.

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