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New Google Feature

I've been sitting on this for a few weeks now -mainly due to my own laziness but I thought I'd finally pad it out a little. It would appear that Google have release a new method of ranking your own results for certain terms: Once you&

Custom Visual Studio Build Events

I thought I'd share some festive "fun" today. For quite some time now I've hooked into the build events within Visual Studio but I think this is just taking it too far... Basically the script now increments the version number of the DLL (if

Settling with "it'll do"

Do you really want what you do to be classed as "it'll do"? At the moment it would appear that a lot of businesses are happy to say "It'll do" rather than put that extra mile to "It's excellent&

Microsoft Office Accounting Professional crashes with custom invoice

We've had an irritating issue recently with our accounting system, when creating the custom invoices. Basically, every time we tried to create a custom invoice with Microsoft Office Accounting the entire application would crash for no obvious reason. Checking the exception's stack trace it would talk

IE classes DDD feedback site as a phishing site...

This one made me laugh today, Chris Anderson alerted me to it but you would have thought the MS guys would have picked up on it... Incidentally, it's the first time I've seen this message on any site...

What's Google missing this time?

I guess it's something to do with fair competition etc but I found this rather interesting when adding a client to Google's Business Listing the other day. Can anyone else spot a missing payment option? How about "Google Checkout"?

A new email domain scam to watch out for

This came through to one of our clients today, I thought I'd share it as I've not seen it before and it made me chuckle. Note the placeholder: <Online since> Thought you might like to share it with your clients :) Hi,We've

The remote host closed the connection. The error code is 0x80072746

We've just moved a couple of our sites onto a new server and have intermittently started to receive the error "The remote host closed the connection. The error code is 0x80072746.", usually around the same time as "Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to

WSDL returning a valid response but object is null

We had an interesting problem the other day while integrating with a web service hosted on an apache server. Every time we called the WSDL methods we could see a valid request being sent and a valid response being returned (ok there were a few syntax errors but nothing that

Keeping people happy

Sometimes it's the little things that keep workers happy so when I saw the little surprise that online conference callers Powwownow do with their cards I thought I'd share. When you sign up at www.powwownow.co.uk you get the option of being sent your