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Tim Gaunt

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

Why didn't you pick up the phone?

** WARNING ** this post is most definitely a rant A couple of weeks ago Stacey and I were hit with some really nasty flu like bug (not man flu :P), I don’t think I’ve ever had flu before so I’m not sure if it was flu but this

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