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I finally took the plunge and updated to Wordpress 2.0, which could not have gone more smoothly. My alterior motive for the update was to try out Canvas, a new plugin/extension for Wordpress, and once again, my life has been changed for the better. Canvas is an Ajax/Web 2.0/Whatever-You-Want-To-Call-Web-Applications-These-Days powered interface for fully customizing a Wordpress blog. I’ve just barely scratched the surface with it, but already it looks like a killer blog app. Right now I’m thinking any blogger who’s not using Wordpress already should switch over immediately and use Canvas. The whole concept just might change web-based Content Management Systems forever. If only Joomla was this intuitive.

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I’ve been dealing with large quantities of Access databases. They tend to get bloated with unused space. So, I built this utility which searches folders and subfolders for databases, populates a listbox (with extended multiselect) with the filenames, then uses the Jet database engine to compact the selected files. It shows before and after filesizes. Oh… and it WORKS. (If it doesn’t, please drop me a line with the details.)

Download the zipped file here.

Feel free to let me know if you find this useful, suggest enhancements, tell me to shut up already, etc.

Tags: Scripting is Cool, Technology by Keith
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