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Tim Gaunt

Umbraco and Ghost/Cached/Deleted pages appearing in menu

I'm currently investigating a new Open Source ASP.Net CMS system called Umbraco. It looks very promising as it can be fully accessible and has full support for XHTML among many other interesting features. I met with a couple of the guys that are developing the system in

How to search every table and field in a SQL Server Database

Update: I have corrected the original issue with this script. Please see: Search every table and field in a SQL Server Database Updated. Today I had an issue with Umbraco and a copy of a deleted page appearing in the menu, I'll post how I fix it if

Bartering for everyday items

It was recently that time of year again when my bank balance takes a massive hit as various premiums are taken out for things like car tax, car insurance, house insurance etc so I get a little anal about finding the best deal. This year, my target was to get

Identify which application pool is associated with which W3WP.exe process

Today I needed to identify a site that was causing the W3WP.exe process to run at 100% CPU. I had hoped that there was some clever way of identifying the site from the process id but no such luck. The issue was escalated because we have multiple sites under

Why should we use you?

While at the recent Startups Live event I got asked a question that I really should have been prepared for "Why should we use you?". At the time I was tired and hungry (no excuse I know) and so I was a little thrown. I think it'

Tim Smit and Startups Live visit Bristol

Seeing as I don't seem to have time to post my long, beautifully formatted posts at the moment -and that I don't think people really care whether they're beautifully formatted or not- I'm just throw this one on... Last night I went

What have I been up to?

It's been rather quiet on my blog recently, if you're wondering why (and don't chat to me on/off-line) I thought I would share with you what we've been working on recently. For the past month or so The Site Doctor has

Wording a letter/email to get something

When running any business, there will inevitably be a time when you need to ask a client for permission for something, whether it's to use their name as a reference or to bill them for a service. These letters are always tricky, get it wrong and your client

The Controls collection cannot be modified because the control contains code blocks

Server Error in '/' Application. The Controls collection cannot be modified because the control contains code blocks (i.e. <% ... %>).Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated

Understanding email server connection checks

One of the reasons I'm fanatical about Rackspace as a hosting partner is that if you're unsure about something, you know you're able to ask an expert and get a top-notch response to your quandary. I was recently speaking with another host who was