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Tim Gaunt

Is Google using Analytics data to crawl additional pages?

I've been wondering for a while how Google has managed to find a couple of hidden pages. Although they were securely locked down we noticed a few rejected GoogleBot requests in the audit logs. We put this down to the users having a Google toolbar installed but today

Identify IIS Sites and Log File locations for WWW and FTP -the source

Exactly a year ago today I posted a little application that output the sites in IIS to a text file and as a few days ago Lars asked for the source, I thought it would be a nice thing to release it exactly a year later. I didn't

How to: Convert Hexadecimal Strings

As it's my Birthday today I thought I'd post a silly ditty. I'm currently altering Protx's old ASP.Net library to accommodate their changes in regards 3D Secure and while reflecting some of the code came across an enum with their number

Setting the page title with ASP.Net

We've been setting up the page's title using ASP.Net for quite some time now, we tend to word it: Product Name | Category | Site Name as this IMO is the most comprehensive naming convention (though the pipe (|) gets converted to a space for the bookmarks). When

You can't make this stuff up

This is one of the most bizarre stories I've heard in a while, you really can't make it up. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7496923.stm

Deleting SVN directories with PowerShell

I've been re-working our new SVN structures recently as I'm now starting to understand how it works but one of the issues I had was trying to move the files/folders from a previous SVN directory. PowerShell is great if you understand it (which I'

Market rates -can I have the same hourly rate for all clients?

This started out as a response to a comment and then I thought it might be better as a post in it's own right. In his commentDavid Conlisk said: First off Tim very well done on providing some excellent information on the site. I've just spent

Is Amazon back up to its old tricks?

It's gift time again (for me that is!) -yey! But when I was checking out on Amazon.co.uk earlier today I was a little puzzled by this... On the product details page it said £4.45 shipping (correct me if I'm wrong) But then when

West Bromwich gallery The Public fails to deliver again

If you've had the chance to catch any of the UK news recently (or even glanced at a paper) you'll no-doubt have heard about the fantastic new art gallery that was due to open in West Bromwich last year this weekend -The Public. Unlike alltheotherarticlesaboutThe Public

UK Umbraco meet has a map

As requested on the forum, we've got a map to try and work out where it should be placed, if you want to come along get yourself added: http://tinyurl.com/3oaf8x Instructions from Google: Adding and Editing Placemarks To add a placemark to your map: 1. Create