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Tim Gaunt

Umbraco tip of the day -sort your document types

I thought I'd share this as it's something I've been thinking about trying for a while. Umbraco is great but sometimes you want the default document selected when creating a page to be one that isn't the alphabetically first one. To work

Feedstats dropped by half overnight?

This was an interesting one, I've had about 42 subscribers for months (or there abouts) and then suddenly on Friday I lost nearly half. I know they're not big numbers but I wonder if Feedburner have noticed a glitch in their code.

Another Google feature

As I don't follow football I'm probably slow to pick this one up but thought I'd share it, when Googling "Newcastle" I got last/next fixture results so I thought I'd try it for West Brom: Pretty neat. I wonder

ASP.Net Profiles - Value cannot be null.Parameter name: type

This is the second time I've come across the error "Value cannot be null.Parameter name: type" when using ASP.Net Membership Profiles. Profiles are great, they allow you to store little pieces of information e.g. their user id (an integer reference to your database)

Friday Crazy Design

I was looking for an adjustable 4 hole punch today so I thought I'd quickly pop onto Staples' website thinking they might have one I can buy and then I was faced with this monstrosity: I know they've got a large product catalogue to share

New Google Feature

I've been sitting on this for a few weeks now -mainly due to my own laziness but I thought I'd finally pad it out a little. It would appear that Google have release a new method of ranking your own results for certain terms: Once you&

Custom Visual Studio Build Events

I thought I'd share some festive "fun" today. For quite some time now I've hooked into the build events within Visual Studio but I think this is just taking it too far... Basically the script now increments the version number of the DLL (if

Settling with "it'll do"

Do you really want what you do to be classed as "it'll do"? At the moment it would appear that a lot of businesses are happy to say "It'll do" rather than put that extra mile to "It's excellent&

Microsoft Office Accounting Professional crashes with custom invoice

We've had an irritating issue recently with our accounting system, when creating the custom invoices. Basically, every time we tried to create a custom invoice with Microsoft Office Accounting the entire application would crash for no obvious reason. Checking the exception's stack trace it would talk

IE classes DDD feedback site as a phishing site...

This one made me laugh today, Chris Anderson alerted me to it but you would have thought the MS guys would have picked up on it... Incidentally, it's the first time I've seen this message on any site...