The following example worked a charm using Subsonic and activerecord.

var fetch_ref_id = contract.All().OrderByDescending(c => c.id).Take(1).ToList();
if (iRef_new_id != null)
{
     iRef_new_id = fetch_ref_id[0].id;
}

As you can see, it creates a new list (noted by the ToList()) by connecting to the table “category”, it then selects all results (All()) and then orders the list by Descending and finally, the take(1) simply takes the top record.

I then whack the result (if you have a column called id) into a integer.

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1) Creating a CSS layout from scratch
This is pretty much my favourite CSS tutorial .. which pretty much takes the scenario of cutting and slicing a web design into an actual functional website using CSS.

2) CSS Template Layout
This tutorial goes into a bit of detail and lacks images along the way (to break up the text), however everything just made sense whilst reading this tutorial.

3) CSS Tutorial: Layout a page using CSS
A little more detailed than the others, this tutorial aims to keep it simple; but yet goes into detail about each element and tag reference. The thing to remember, is that learning CSS is like learning to ride a bike – once you know it, it’ll stick – trust me.

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Being the Linux fanboy that I am, I set to work tweaking my Acer Aspire One, which by default comes with the Linux distro Linplus. My first reaction was to be gone with the default OS and whack Ubuntu on, however I came to love Linplus and its fast bootup time. And by fast .. I mean fast. If I wanted to find out the weather, I could probably boot this laptop and hit weather.smh.com.au faster than my Blackberry could load the site

One of the first things you’ll need to do is get your Linplus working like an actual Linux operating system, and we can do this by turning on the advanced menu, which allows you to right click the desktop for a traditional menu.

1) Hit Alt + F12 and type xfce-setting-show
2) Find Desktop preferences, then the behavior tab and click “Show desktop menu on right-click”.

Some interesting and useful Tweaks

Installing Skype on the Acer Aspire One
One of the reasons why I wanted one of these tiny notebooks was for traveling purposes. And what better way to communicate with home than over Skype.

1) From the advanced menu (right click desktop) click terminal
2) Type: sudo yum install skype

This will install Skype and the necessary dependencies.
To add Skype to the infamous Acer Aspire Linplus background menu .. do the following

1) (Hopefully you’ve enabled the advanced menu as per above) Right click the deskop, select command prompt
2) Type: mousepad /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml

As you can see, there are the 4 sections, Fun, work etc..
Under Fun, add a line similar to the others and use this as the path;

/usr/share/applications/skype.desktop

Reboot your laptop and the lovely Skype icon should appear!

More tweaks than you can poke a stick at

(Please let me know of any articles that you know of that you think should be listed here!)

• Change the default mail client to Thunderbird
• Installing VLC on the Acer Aspire One
• Install the new Open Office 3.0
• Learn how to control the Acer Aspire One fan (and even turn it off!)
• Install MAC OS x on the Acer Aspire One .. (what the hell?)

More tweaks coming soon, stay tuned!

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