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How to calculate project timescales and costs

We’ve gone around in circles at The Site Doctor trying to decide the best method to calculate project costs and timings, historically I would look at the project brief, have a think about how much I wanted to work for a client and then I would –in effect- pluck

A GREAT! New resource for freelancers and others starting out

I can’t recall how I came across FreelanceSwitch because it was one of those links you see on a mailing list, open to read later and forget to read until a couple of days/weeks later, but nevertheless FreelanceSwitch is well worth a read as they have a tonne

ASP.Net Membership SQL Roles access

We have recently moved over to SQL Server 2005 and as part of this transfer I decided to aggregate two separate ASP.Net Membership databases that were created purely out of error. For those of you who don’t already know, you can happily run more than application’s security

SQL Server Delete all data

I expect many people already know about this technique but I wanted to share it with those that don’t. The other day I needed to remove all data from a database before importing data from another database. I usually use DTS to copy the data across but knew that

How to use Phil's error reporting code

I’ve done a number of posts now on Phil Whinstanley’s error reporting class and this blog appears to be getting a lot of hits because of that which is pretty neat, as a result I’ve had a couple of people write to me asking similar questions about

Give your site a pulse

Get your finger on the pulse of your site with this great new (free) RSS statistics service “PulseRSS”. I met the developers of PulseRSS the other day at my first Multipack meet (West Midlands based new media meet) which, if you’re nearby you should check out in the future

ASP not running on Windows 2003 with ASP.Net installed

Another post from DougSetzer from 27Seconds.com :) At my "day job", the systems guys are building new Windows 2003 servers to upgrade our aging Windows 2000 servers. The plan is to: - Build the new Windows 2003 server - Install IIS - Install .NET - Run the IIS

Accessing properties by a string name

This morning Julian Voelcker came to me with an interesting issue that I’ve looked into before but I’ve never really looked into a re-useable solution. Seeing as it’s fun Friday I thought why not ;) The scenario: I would like to offer my users a custom mail merge

Reporting errors from AJAX using the WebException Class

I’ve been using Phil Whinstanley’s error reporting class1 within my applications for some time now and it really does help with diagnosing issues with the site’s during development (or client testing) but also alerting me to errors on live sites. I also like it because it can

DasBlog RSS Feed Macro

As part of my blog’s re-design I wanted to integrate my statistics from Last.FM which monitors what music you’re listening to and generates a stack of statistics about your listening habit (see About Last FM for more information). Anyways, I started writing my own RSS macro when