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Tim Gaunt

Threshers do it again -another 40% discount voucher! This time for Easter

As you're probably aware, at Christmas the Threshers Group put out a 40% discount voucher for the Threshers Group, well it would appear they’ve decided to do it again so I thought I should share it again, as before, the Threshers Group 40% Easter discount voucher can

Simple accounting database

As part of my mini-series on Business start-up advice I posted a simple accounting database (see: Finances (VAT, Accountants etc)) but today I realised I had just uploaded the mdb which won't be served by IIS so I just wanted to let you know I've uploaded

How to use Phil's error reporting code

I’ve done a number of posts now on Phil Whinstanley’s error reporting class and this blog appears to be getting a lot of hits because of that which is pretty neat, as a result I’ve had a couple of people write to me asking similar questions about

Payment on acounts

I recently released a mini-series of articles with a load of great business start-up advice (also available to download as a PDF) in which I talk about how the government is really going the extra mile for SMEs at the moment, helping them out in a load of different ways

When customer service goes mad

I rate good/great customer service very highly when it comes to retaining clients and obtaining new clients so it always make me laugh at how some companies value their customer service and more to the point wonder how they’re still in business! The other day I had a

Give your site a pulse

Get your finger on the pulse of your site with this great new (free) RSS statistics service “PulseRSS”. I met the developers of PulseRSS the other day at my first Multipack meet (West Midlands based new media meet) which, if you’re nearby you should check out in the future

ASP not running on Windows 2003 with ASP.Net installed

Another post from DougSetzer from 27Seconds.com :) At my "day job", the systems guys are building new Windows 2003 servers to upgrade our aging Windows 2000 servers. The plan is to: - Build the new Windows 2003 server - Install IIS - Install .NET - Run the IIS

Accessing properties by a string name

This morning Julian Voelcker came to me with an interesting issue that I’ve looked into before but I’ve never really looked into a re-useable solution. Seeing as it’s fun Friday I thought why not ;) The scenario: I would like to offer my users a custom mail merge

Reporting errors from AJAX using the WebException Class

I’ve been using Phil Whinstanley’s error reporting class1 within my applications for some time now and it really does help with diagnosing issues with the site’s during development (or client testing) but also alerting me to errors on live sites. I also like it because it can

First thoughts on the BlackBerry Pearl

I’ve always been adverse to getting a BlackBerry for a few of reasons: 1. I don’t get away from work much as it is so I felt having emails on my BlackBerry on the go all the time would be one step too far. The size of the