I just took a trip around on CVSDude, and had a look at their testimonials page. We use them for source control, outsourcing it is so much easier than doing it at work or home your self, and they have excellent rates. Anyhow – I noticed that my quote, made while at a small (but […]
SQL server has always had difficulty with its backup and maintenance plans in removing old backups. Until now this has been a major issue on some of our servers, each month someone has to go through the backup folder and remove the old Transaction Log and Full Backup folders. No longer – Robocopy to the […]
We dont very often do much server maintenance, especially on our centralised dev and file server boxes. Mostly we don’t have time, as a small team that goes through mountains of work its not a priority. Today I had 5 minutes (!) to actually see if there was a way to automate Disk Clean up […]
I have been working hard on a new site, and having put Adwords up I no longer want to see my hits on the Google Analytics reports because it all just gets in the way. Analytics gives you 2 ways of excluding traffic using the filters. The first is by IP Address, and the second […]
I thought this article from InfoQ was worth bringing to your attention, as it was an interesting read for me, about the misconceptions Adobe come across when talking to people about Flex. We are currently a way down the path of getting one of our clients to embrace Flex, and then get the skills to […]
We just struck this problem because our developers use ColdFusion 8 on their local machines, then we deploy on ColdFusion 7. This is so we can fully test our apps on 8 before rolling it to production. We don’t really run into any issues, but here is one I just found. This issues is a […]
I just a trip down memory lane reading this article from Adobe’s coprorate intranet, kindly reproduced by Damon Cooper for the rest of the world to read. Thanks Damon! I occasionaly play with other languages, most recently PHP and life is so much harder to get started, making a database call is not easy, and […]
We have moved our email services in house over to SmarterMail because of its history, power and flexibility. We used to use MailEnable, and although we like supporting Aussie companies, Smartermail is just that bit more mature. Now to make it easy on clients and ourselves, we have minimised the amount of knowledge required to […]
We have been moving sites from a SQL 2000 machine over to a new SQL server 2005 server and we came across this error: “The incoming tabular data stream (TDS) remote procedure call (RPC) protocol stream is incorrect. Parameter 1 (“”): Data type 0x38 is unknown” It is caused by the connection method in the […]
