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Tim Gaunt

The 300 mile club -I'm finally in!

I’ve been a member of the RX-8 Owners Club since I bought the 8 –a little sad but there’s great discounts and help on the forums so I thought it was worth the £30pa, anyhow, they’ve had the converted 300mile club on the forum for a while

Setup.exe

I'm forever downloading application trials to see how other developers write applications, partly out of curiosity but moreover to improve applications we’re developing –seeing what we’ve left out, how we may be able to do it better etc. I keep a fairly clear desktop but today

ASP.Net WebException and Error Reporting useful code

I’ve been including Phil Winstanley’s error reporting code (http://weblogs.asp.net/plip/archive/2004/04/17/114984.aspx) in our projects for quite some time now and it’s become an invaluable resource when debugging site exceptions both while developing and on live sites. Since the initial

The housing market's gone mad

Matt Smith sent me this today which made me laugh, the housing market really as gone crazy...http://www.findaproperty.com/displayprop.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&pid=605998&agentid=04438 £95,000 sounds a bargain to me!

Free copies of the released versions of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007

This is still unconfirmed and somewhat word-of-mouth etc atm but if you check out Ian Moulster's blog you'll see his post about Microsoft giving away free copies of the release version of Vista and Office 2007 check out his blog post to find out more. Hopefully

When an acronym saved my bacon

Once again playing joker could have got me in trouble while chatting to Doug from 27Seconds last night: (21:21) Tim™: hold this thought, I've gtg shopping (bitch's come home) (21:21) Tim™: I'll prob email you over the next few days (21:21)

Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design

After the fun and games we had with IE and sorting out an old CSS design for www.technikfloor.co.uk on Friday when I saw this pie chart I thought it was an excellent summary of a modern web designer’s life. Personally I feel my Teal coloured slice

Parsing Apache Log files

This is a useful Regex that Craig wrote today, it pulls out various info from an apache log file. privatestatic Regex __Regex =null; internalstatic Regex _Regex {...}{ get{...} { if (__Regex ==null) {...} { __Regex =new Regex(@"(?<remoteHost>[^\ ]+?)\ (?<remoteIdent>[^\ ]+?)\ (?<remoteUs"+@"er>[^\ ]+?)\ \[(?<requestTime>[^\]]+?)\]\ \"

My day at Prodrive

As I’m sure you’re more than aware, I recently bought a new RX-8. As part of the “deal” when buying one knew you get given a day at Prodrive (www.prodrive.co.uk). Officially this is a “get to know your car better day”, unofficially it’s a

Tendering - Who, What, When and How?

Following on from my previous post of “Pricing your work”, I mentioned there were two questions I get asked on a regular occasion. Here, I’m going to cover the second (and more common) of the two “How do you get the work?” I have to confess that since establishing