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Tim Gaunt

SQL Server SP2 quirks

Ok, as sad as it sounds I've been looking forward to the latest SQL Server service pack since I heard about some of the issues it fixed as there was two "glitches" in particular that seriously bugged me, namely: * Loading a SQL file into the query

Employing someone 101

Stacey recently wrote an excellent brief on the pro's and con's of employing someone however this morning when I came to post it online I realised that it was deleted when I formatted the laptop for a system demonstration last week. Luckily however I have a

DasBlog RSS Feed Macro

As part of my blog’s re-design I wanted to integrate my statistics from Last.FM which monitors what music you’re listening to and generates a stack of statistics about your listening habit (see About Last FM for more information). Anyways, I started writing my own RSS macro when

Firefox class name and space idiosyncrasy

We’re currently reworking www.florame.co.uk to improve it’s search engine ranking from virtually non-existent to (hopefully) first page for various inflections of organic aromatherapy, organic essential oils and all sorts of other aromatherapy products. Despite the on-going debate on whether search engine crawlers prefer pretty XHTML

Business start up advice downloadable PDF

I’m still somewhat shocked at how well the series on business start up advice was received, I was expecting one or two hits on it but so far I’ve had over 1,000 visits to the article which is pretty shocking as this blog in its entirety was

WowWee FlyTech DragonFly -awesome!

I was planning on writing about this new gizmo that a friend of mine from the states DougSetzer has got his hands on but then he asked me to and I didn’t really feel like it after that ;) Just kidding, Doug’s bought a WowWee FlyTech DragonFly and I

My first heads up (I think)

Awesome, I had my first non-friend/family cross-blog comment the other day (very exciting stuff!) so I decided to check out the referring site and there, in all it's glory was a link to by blog! Seeing as one of the primary aims of this blog was to

Importing/Referencing DLLs in Visual Studio

A couple of people have got stuck on various lists/forums I’m on moving from ASP to ASP.Net and the differences there are, the one first major sticking point I had was referencing DLLs –so don’t worry you’re not the only one! So this is a

Automatically delete old IIS log files

This is a really useful little VBS script that I’ve been meaning to post for a while now (along with a couple of other little applications I’ve written for log file analysis). I don’t think I wrote this script but at the same time can’t recall

Some great software I use

I was recently on the search for a new firewall after having so many people complain about it (and having a few issues myself). I asked a forum that was very happy to criticise ZoneAlarms what they recommended to use as people were quick to flame and not explain. Sadly,