***Updated 8/1/2010***

Summary:

1)Makes payment plans clearing in the account and statements
2)Makes referrals easier to use and manage in the Chart and Account with notifications

Description:

This is my first plugin for the wonderful Open Dental Software. (http://www.opendental.com).  In an attempt to help both our office and our patients understand their account when we have a payment plan enabled, I created this modification. Basically, it changes the totals at the top of the account and also modifies display of totals on the statements in a clearer, more concise manner.  The main point is that it lets the patient know what the total balance of the account is, how much your office is still financing, how much is still expected from insurance, and finally what they currently owe. All these things were in the program originally, but displayed in ways that was very confusing for the average person. Before, it was extremely difficult to understand when a patient had a payment plan set up, then came in the office to have more work done., what they actually owed. For example for today’s work, they may owe $120 but they still haven’t made a payment due this month for their payment plan of $150 on their loan of $700. So in reality they do owe the office $820 in total with $270 due today. The statement would say $150 due for the payment plan and $120 due in a separate location and $270 due at the top of the page. It was really unclear that $350 remained on the payment plan, we just didn’t expect it today as previously agreed and what those other numbers meant.

With and Without the Plugin

In comes my plugin! With it enabled, it now shows the total of $820 with $550 still financed and $270 due today. Clear, concise, just what our patients want.

The plugin also changes the quick view insurance remaining box to the right of the totals in the account screen to reflect how much insurance the patient has left without mousing over it. It will still show more details when you mouse over as before.

To enable it, you must be sure you are using the specified Open Dental version below.  Just download the file below, unzip it, and then copy it to your open dental folder (usually “c:\program files\open dental\”) Start Open Dental, create a program link, enable it and in the dll path box, type “PluginDrTECH.dll”. Be sure to get the capitalization right. Restart Open Dental and enjoy!

Download & Changelog:

V1.0.3 (8-1-2010)
(Use with Open Dental 7.2.1 and later)PluginDrTECH(1.0.3)OD72.dll
-Fixes incompatibility with OD 7.2

V 1.0.2 (5-20-2010)
(Use with Open Dental 7.1.16 and later) PluginDrTECH(1.0.2).dll
-Updates to include Referral display and quick edits in the chart and account.
-Fixed incompatibility with OD 7.1

V 1.0.0 (Open Dental 7.0.22 and later, but not 7.1)  PluginDrTECH(1.0.0).dll
-1st release, changes statements and account for payment plans

-David Fuchs

The Problem:

After searching far and wide for a gallery script that would allow me to show my photos and videos inline, one after another, in a simple to use shadowbox or similar viewer, I finally come up with a solution. The problem is most galleries are only set up to handle photos and not videos. Or if they do, they don’t show in the same sideshow or thumbnail view. WPG2 is the only one out there that does this halfway, but to see the videos, you have to actually leave the page you put the video thumbnail on and view the actually gallery2 page which is painfully slow and clunky.

This is the file to use to overlay video thumbnails

The NextGen gallery plugin for WordPress seems to do a nice job with photos, but alas is still lacking video support. Along comes this post where I finally got started learning jquery: http://blog.creonfx.com/javascript/wordpress-video-galleries-with-nextgen-and-jquery Now with this code, the video thumbnails show on your posting of a gallery, but, the videos don’t show in sequence when you are thumbing through the photos in shadowbox. You must instead click individually on the thumbnail representing the video. But how do you know which one is the video? Another problem.

Now, for the solution.

Summary:

class="shadowbox" rel="shadowbox[%GALLERY_NAME%]"

**Now Every Time you want to use the feature**

1) Upload your photos, including an image for the thumbnail of your video, to a new NextGen Gallery (I use Picasa and it automatically creates a video thumbnail on export for you)

2) Upload your video(s) to your normal WordPress gallery and copy the URL(s)

3) Put the URL(s) for your video in the “alt” textfield of each video’s thumbnail when you edit the NextGen gallery

4) Start your “descriptions” with the text “Video” when you edit your NextGen gallery on each thumbnail with a corresponding URL

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Details:

I modified the above script from Peter Velichkov to modify the “rel” tag (continue reading…)

Windows 7 is great. But for some reason Microsoft disabled indexing for network drives. This is a real problem when you store all your documents on a central server or network drive. To work around this and put your network drive in your “libraries” follow the instructions below:

1. Create a folder on your hard drive for shares. i.e. c:\shares
2. Create another folder in the above share. i.e. c:\shares\documents
2. Link the Library to this folder.
3. Delete the folder.
4. Use the mklink in an elevated command prompt  (ie, run CMD with administrator privileges) to make a symbolic link between the local directory you linked earlier and the network share you are trying to link. Name the link the same as the folder you created above.
i.e – mklink /d c:\shares\documents \\server\mydocuments
5. Done. Now you have non-indexed UNC path as a library.

Now you have the folder listed, but you can’t search it. For this, you need to install a patch released by Microsoft:

windows7 desktop search – UNCFATPHInstaller (will not work on 64bit according to Microsoft…but I haven’t tried it)

Then you should be able to go to Control Panel > Indexing Options > Advanced Button > UNC Tab and add the path for indexing.

Because OpenSSH allows you to run commands on remote systems, showing you the results directly, as well as just logging in to systems it’s ideal for automating common tasks with shellscripts and cronjobs. One thing that you probably won’t want is to do though is store the remote system’s password in the script. Instead you’ll want to setup SSH so that you can login securely without having to give a password.

Thankfully this is very straightforward, with the use of public keys.

To enable the remote login (continue reading…)

This if simple and a great asset if you are trying to do automatic backups with rsync or anything else where you need unattended backups or login. This is for Ubuntu Distributions of Linux:

1) Generate RSA Key

ssh-keygen -t rsa

2) Copy the key to the computer you wish to login to automatically without a password:

sudo scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub USERNAME@IP:~/.ssh/authorized_keys
(replace your username and IP address with your correct info)

That’s it! Now you should be able to use SSH and not have to enter a password to login.