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Knowing what to say in meetings -Part 1

It's important when going into any meeting with a client that you prepare (everyone know's the old motto "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail") but how can you do that? First of all, consider what sort of meeting it is, find out who&

Is Google using Analytics data to crawl additional pages?

I've been wondering for a while how Google has managed to find a couple of hidden pages. Although they were securely locked down we noticed a few rejected GoogleBot requests in the audit logs. We put this down to the users having a Google toolbar installed but today

Identify IIS Sites and Log File locations for WWW and FTP -the source

Exactly a year ago today I posted a little application that output the sites in IIS to a text file and as a few days ago Lars asked for the source, I thought it would be a nice thing to release it exactly a year later. I didn't

Deleting SVN directories with PowerShell

I've been re-working our new SVN structures recently as I'm now starting to understand how it works but one of the issues I had was trying to move the files/folders from a previous SVN directory. PowerShell is great if you understand it (which I'

UK Umbraco meet has a map

As requested on the forum, we've got a map to try and work out where it should be placed, if you want to come along get yourself added: http://tinyurl.com/3oaf8x Instructions from Google: Adding and Editing Placemarks To add a placemark to your map: 1. Create

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

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"

A seriously elegant SQL Injection

Having been subject to a recent hack myself I can sympathise with one of my mates who had a SQL injection attack succeed on one of his sites earlier today. Admitadly mine was due to poor internal maintanence whereas this is almost a piece of art... This is an extract

The Site Doctor is hiring!

Despite all the doom and gloom surrounding the pending credit crunch, we're hiring as work is piling in and we need help :). So if you're a developer, designer, sales person, marketing guru -or you're just plain bored check out The Site Doctor's

Another successful Multipack meet

So Saturday was another chance to meet up with all the Multipack guys in a recently restructured Multipack -same place (The Old Joint Stock in Birmingham), same time (second Saturday of the month). Personally I think it's a good move as the numbers were well up on normal