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• wemoot - it's alive!

  Posted: 30 Mar 2009 at 10:14 by chillfire

  I have been building wemoot with Jorge Gonzalez in secret (kind of) for the last 8 months or so, fine tuning and redeveloping his idea to give everyone the oppurtunity to share/find and learn from a single place on the internet.When asked what wemoot is I normally say "It's like Faceook with brains", don't get me wrong old facebook does a great job, but it doesn't have any 'information' in it, it's great for keeping in touch with friends, but I can't learn anything from it.Wemoot gives me somew

• Open Space Code - a good day out

  Posted: 29 Mar 2009 at 08:50 by chillfire

  I spent my saturday with a group of programmers form around London taking part in the 2nd openspacecode event, I had never heard about these types of events before but it seemed like a great idea.As a sole developer it can be really hard to 'see' what is going on in the industry, especially when all of my projects are based loosely around the same technology and 'patterns & practices'.The day started with a short group planning session, where everyone is given the oppurtunity

• be carfeul of skype when editing your website!

  Posted: 16 Jan 2009 at 16:12 by chillfire

  I have been building websites for a number of years so many in fact I now build websites to buld websites (content management systems), so it came as a surprised that while I was editing a customers live website I noticed a lrage number of missing images on the contact page.This was easily fixed by turning the skype browser button OFF and removing the skype injected code from the editor before I saved the HTML again.It's interesting to note that when this skype bar is turned on it has rendering

• Dundas is reborm as MSchart

  Posted: 02 Dec 2008 at 21:44 by chillfire

  Well well, the purchase of Dundas by Microsoft has given us developers some new free tools for the asp.net framework.And they look really good, oh did I mention they are free......http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=10419cheers,

• Dundas is reborm as MSchart

  Posted: 02 Dec 2008 at 21:44 by noreply@blogger.com (chillfire)

  Well well, the purchase of Dundas by Microsoft has given us developers some new free tools for the asp.net framework.And they look really good, oh did I mention they are free......http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=10419cheers,

• moving a database from sql 2005 to sql2000.....

  Posted: 24 Nov 2008 at 15:31 by chillfire

  This I would have thought would have been a fairly easy task, as the DB in question used to be hosted on a SQL2000 server and was detached, then attached to the SQL2005 development server to be adjusted etc etc. I even left the compatibility set to 80.The only structural changes were via the aspnet

• moving a database from sql 2005 to sql2000.....

  Posted: 24 Nov 2008 at 15:31 by noreply@blogger.com (chillfire)

  This I would have thought would have been a fairly easy task, as the DB in question used to be hosted on a SQL2000 server and was detached, then attached to the SQL2005 development server to be adjusted etc etc. I even left the compatibility set to 80.The only structural changes were via the aspnet

• Startup Zone

  Posted: 06 Nov 2008 at 21:01 by chillfire

  This is a great site from Microsoft for all new businesses to look at.If you are an IT service provider like us, you can add you profile for others to find you, or if you are after some IT services there are loads of company profiles to look through.Best of all if you are a IT type person and use mi

• Startup Zone

  Posted: 06 Nov 2008 at 21:01 by noreply@blogger.com (chillfire)

  This is a great site from Microsoft for all new businesses to look at.If you are an IT service provider like us, you can add you profile for others to find you, or if you are after some IT services there are loads of company profiles to look through.Best of all if you are a IT type person and use mi

• New Google Analytics Feature: Event Tracking

  Posted: 01 Nov 2008 at 10:53 by chillfire

  This little dittybelow from the big 'G' will mean loads more data for SEO'ers and developers to work with, currently any action within an AJAX upadate panel for example is not seen by Google analytics.Now it seems that is about to change, well at least for some sites they have selected in the pilo

• New Google Analytics Feature: Event Tracking

  Posted: 01 Nov 2008 at 10:53 by noreply@blogger.com (chillfire)

  This little dittybelow from the big 'G' will mean loads more data for SEO'ers and developers to work with, currently any action within an AJAX upadate panel for example is not seen by Google analytics.Now it seems that is about to change, well at least for some sites they have selected in the pilo

• ciao to microsoft

  Posted: 29 Oct 2008 at 20:01 by chillfire

  I spoke to a guy from ciao.com yesterday at the e-commerce expo in London (uk) and he mentioned that Microsoft had just bought www.ciao.com?Apparently the wheels had only just started moving so he had no idea of what the merger/acquisition would mean for us in the real world, but they had been infor

• ciao to microsoft

  Posted: 29 Oct 2008 at 20:01 by noreply@blogger.com (chillfire)

  I spoke to a guy from ciao.com yesterday at the e-commerce expo in London (uk) and he mentioned that Microsoft had just bought www.ciao.com?Apparently the wheels had only just started moving so he had no idea of what the merger/acquisition would mean for us in the real world, but they had been infor

• even the big boys can have problems

  Posted: 27 Oct 2008 at 18:58 by chillfire

  Looks like www.microsoft.co.uk is being updated and someone forgot to flick one of the switches.The link redirects to http://www.microsoft.com/en/gb/ and not http://www.microsoft.com/en/gb/default.aspxoh dear....

• even the big boys can have problems

  Posted: 27 Oct 2008 at 18:58 by noreply@blogger.com (chillfire)

  Looks like www.microsoft.co.uk is being updated and someone forgot to flick one of the switches.The link redirects to http://www.microsoft.com/en/gb/ and not http://www.microsoft.com/en/gb/default.aspxoh dear....

• cms woes

  Posted: 27 Oct 2008 at 14:47 by chillfire

  Question from Ray Stewart ICPA FCCA MICB CB.Dip PM.Dip on UK BusinesslabsI have been watching with interest how my two main websites have been performing in google. My little blog, with it's page rank of 0/10 continually pops up very high in searches and has decent traffic to it but the main site wi

• cms woes

  Posted: 27 Oct 2008 at 14:47 by noreply@blogger.com (chillfire)

  Question from Ray Stewart ICPA FCCA MICB CB.Dip PM.Dip on UK BusinesslabsI have been watching with interest how my two main websites have been performing in google. My little blog, with it's page rank of 0/10 continually pops up very high in searches and has decent traffic to it but the main site wi

• ah the joy of cross browser CSS...

  Posted: 24 Oct 2008 at 12:07 by chillfire

  I have always disliked the fact that every (well most) internet browser renders my CSS differently, its not platform specific either IE6 renders some CSS tags differently to IE7.Now dont get me wrong IE7 is better than IE6 for consistency, and it does a lot of things the same as Firefox, but someone

• ah the joy of cross browser CSS...

  Posted: 24 Oct 2008 at 12:07 by noreply@blogger.com (chillfire)

  I have always disliked the fact that every (well most) internet browser renders my CSS differently, its not platform specific either IE6 renders some CSS tags differently to IE7.Now dont get me wrong IE7 is better than IE6 for consistency, and it does a lot of things the same as Firefox, but someone

• asp.net Code snippet mangement for multiple development machines

  Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 11:51 by chillfire

  I run 2-3 development machines and normally save my snippets on the toolbox 'General' tab, but as I move around the differrent PCs (not on same logins etc) I use its tough to get these code bits in a manageable state and up to date on every machine.So I have started using Mark Manella Code snippet a