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UK Umbraco meet up

In a previous post about CodeGarden 08, I asked people to get in touch if they'd be interested in a UK Umbraco meet up. I've had a fair few people get in touch so I think it's something worthwhile pursuing further. The nest stage

Talk about a confusing error message

I don't mind when I get told I've made a mistake -or there's a problem with the system but this error message kinda takes the P! Quite what the developers were thinking when they wrote this one I'm not sure! What do

The Site Doctor gets yet more features -this time for tackling MRSA with our stressballs!

Since our recent feature on CSS Mania, we've had it pointed out to us that The Site Doctor is getting featured all over the place. The most recent two relate to our new brochure -more notably The Site Doctorbranded stressballs which are apparently protect against MRSA. The first

The Site Doctor gets creative with print

After months of  painstaking work I can FINALLY reveal what we've been beavering away on -our new brochure with a twist. If you're involved in marketing at all you're probably already aware how hard it is to print interactive designs. Regardless of that, we

Missing ratings from Windows Live Writer

As fantastic as it is, and I love the Flickr plugin (being new to Flickr this was what convinced me) but although they look the same, there are a couple of differences (that or I've not found them yet). One of the big issues I've found

CodeGarden 08 -been there, done that, got the t-shirt!

So things have been manic here the past week, for those of you who didn't know, I popped over to Denmark at the last minute to attend Umbraco's CodeGarden 08. It was great fun and I have to thank Niels Hartvig and Per Ploug Hansen for

When do I need to buy an Umbraco license?

This may seem a slightly obvious/silly post but the answer is simple -it's just not *that* well documented/explained. In a nutshell there are three scenarios you need to worry about: * Using Umbraco in a non-commercial environment with the branding (logos etc) intact -no fee * Using

Flickr Pro free to BT Yahoo! users

I've never really got into Flickr but now I'm using Windows Live Photo Gallery which can automatically upload images for you I thought I'd give it ago. While checking out what the restrictions were on my standard (free!) account I was pleasantly surprised to

Can't launch Outlook when switching to Exchange from POP3

I've had an irritating issue for the past week or so. I used to use POP3 in Outlook however the other day I switched to the internal Exchange server and I got stuck in an eternal loop saying that Exchange needed to connect to the server to synchronise

A seriously elegant SQL Injection -how it was sorted

Doug Setzer posted this comment in response to my recent "A seriously elegant SQL Injection" post and I thought it may be of interest to others so have promoted it to a post... Well, I'll step up and say that I am the "mate"