April 2009 Blog
26.04.2009
If you're building a website for your business or just for your own personal use, you're going to want to make certain the website is the best it can be. There are several things to keep in mind when designing your website so that is as appealing to as many visitors as possible. Here are some great website tips for making your site as usable as possible. Keep them in mind when you're working on your site. The most important...
Read more >09.04.2009
Unfortunately people often spend considerable time and money on a web site that has failed. What do I mean by 'failed'? Well, it delivers nothing to their business, or maybe it was never even finished. They are unhappy, out of pocket and have wasted time. So what are the typical reasons why web design projects fail? Of course sometimes it's not just one of these but a cunning blend of several! Ring any bells... ? 1. The kid down the...
Read more >07.04.2009
Although Microsoft has always advised us not to use them, if you are like me you still might have found reasons in the past to use one or more of the SQL Server 2000 undocumented features. In particular, I built a number of processes that used an undocumented, extended stored procedure (SP) called xp_getfiledetails, which allowed me to obtain various bits of operating system information for a physical disk file. Well, with the release of SQL Server 2005, the "bad"...
Read more >03.04.2009
For those of you who thought that I was holding back my first post of the month so that it wasn't mistaken for an elaborate April fool - I am sorry to disappoint, its just that by the time that I had finished building connections, tweeting and poking my friends, it suddenly dawned on me that I didn't in fact have any time left in my daily schedule. Social networking without doubt seems to be taking over the internet, so...
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