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Tim Gaunt

Pricing your work

There are two questions I get asked a lot by people who are thinking about becoming self-employed and even those already running a business. The first is How do you get the work? –this is something I’ll blog about in more detail later as the second is what I

Bulk Granting EXECTUTE Permission on SQL Server

Here's some code I regularly find useful when going from a dev server to a production server (or changing the username), I'm sure there's a more automated way but for a quick fix... DECLARE @username varchar(100)SET @username = 'xyz'SELECT'

PAS 78 available for free download

A while ago the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) in collaboration with BSI released a guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites called Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 78. The guidelines outline good practice in commissioning websites that are accessible to and usable by disabled people. Originally it was made available

Internet acronyms -What do they mean and when to use them

dl.accronyms{ clear: left; } dl.accronyms dt{ float: left; font-weight: bold; margin: 0 5px 0 0; width: 100px; } Having been chatting on the net for a long time, I use internet acronyms in most of my day-day conversations over instant messengers (IMs). When you get used to them they'

Time on the phone –wasted time?

After a somewhat hectic week on the phone I asked myself “has all this time on the phone been wasted time?” Well, I spent time talking to clients, developers, friends and family and this is important. Although it may cost you a little development time, talk is cheap (that’s

Complete Lifecycle of an ASP.Net page and controls

body { color: #000; text-align: left; } tr.subhead { background-color:#cccccc;} th { padding:3px; } td { color: #000; padding:0 3px; text-align: left } th.alt { background-color:black; color: #fff;; } ul{background-color:#FFF; } .alt { background-color:#eeeeee } .mp, .mp a{color: #006600;} .pg, .pg a{color: #000099;} .uc, .uc a{color: #FF6600;} .cc, .cc a{

What's the RX-8 Look Like?

It's been brought to my attention that some people out there STILL don't know what the RX-8 looks like so I thought I'd post a little photo of it here for you: Visit Mazda's RX-8 Showcase Site I'll try and

Growing Old Gracefully

This morning we had the TV on while getting ready to go out and a new L'Oreal advert came on. If you haven't seen it, it has features Jane Fonda telling us how the product helps firm the skin etc, that she's 68 and

Error Reporting and the Trace in ASP.Net 2.0 -Code Update

I've just had it pointed out to me (and quite rightly so) by Craig that my code for enabling the trace with Phil Winstanley's WebException was a touch wrong. I was assuming that the user was (correctly imho) running the application with the trace already disabled.

Crazy Job Advert

Sometimes you really do have to wonder what recruiters are thinking but something tells me, this guy isn’t going to get too many applicants! Crazy Job Advert The Advert can be seen here