Archive for October, 2008

Calculating time difference in months as a decimal number

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

There’s a number of functions out there for calculating the length of time in months but they only provide integer results. MySQL can do it too, for instance. But what if you need to get a precise number?

2008-11-15 minus 2008-10-01 can’t be one if you’re calculating rent. It must be 1.466…

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Absolute positioning in HTML e-mails for Outlook 2007

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

I couldn’t possibly explain my frustration from Microsoft switching Outlook’s rendering engine to Word so I better not even try. Instead, I’m going to tell you how to make Outlook/Word position elements absolutely.

The idea originally came from doublethink (written in Czech) who made a text field in Word, saved it as HTML and then dug through the mess to extract the essence. I just went a step further and did the same for images as well.
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