Remove the default header images from a Twentyeleven child theme

Recently we looked at adding a sidebar to twentyeleven via a child theme. While adding functionality is likely where you will start in your theme customization, there will likely come a point that you will want to remove some specific functionality as well.

One of the most eye catching features of twentyeleven are it’s header images, but if you really want to make the theme your own, you may want to remove the stock header images in favor of your own. Today we will do just that as we continue to explore customizing twentyeleven via a child theme.
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CLR User-Defined Functions in C#

In this article we will continue investigating User-Defined Functions in SQL Server. As before, we will look at functions that aid in determining the proximity of ZIP codes to a given coordinate. While as we’ve previously demonstrated these functions can be implemented entirely in T-SQL, that may not always be viable. Let’s assume that you need to leverage functions not present in T-SQL or perhaps you’re simply more comfortable with .NET than T-SQL, then one of your options is to implement the User-Defined Functions in C#.
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Implementing Zip Code Proximity Functions in MS SQL Server

This post is in the continuing series of articles on database functions, stored procedures, and implementing ZIP code proximity functionality.

Recently I had the opportunity to work on a project involving SQL Server. Having focused mostly on open source databases, I decided to brush up on SQL Server by going through the exercise of implementing the ZIP code proximity functions in T-SQL. The following User-Defined Functions (UDF) were developed and tested in SQL Server 2008 R2 Express, but should be compatible with older versions of SQL Server as well.
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