August 2006

Networking multiple Windows the easy way

Submitted by Damien on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 10:32pm

I've lost count of the number of times that people have asked me to help get their small network of two or three Windows XP computers talking to each other, and I've never spent the time to work out what the magic combination is.Â Recently I came across a program called Network Magic that takes all of the effort out of it.Â If you're having problems getting your PCs to talk, give it a try.

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Keyboard went bad? Who'd a thunk!

Submitted by Damien on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 5:28pm

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I've mentioned before about the Kensington Comfort Type keyboard, which I found to be extremely comfortable to work with, especially because of the unique key shapes. Well, as it happened there was some trouble in paradise.

Wordpress Widgets - Enhanced Search Box

Submitted by Damien on Tue, 08/15/2006 - 3:31am

The default search with Wordpress's Widgets plugin sucks, I fixed it.

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Our Portfolio - Previous Accomplishments

Interested in seeing what we have created for other companies over the years? While some of our work has been publicly accessible, much of it has been on company intranets which have simplified many business practices with user friendly yet powerful systems. With that in mind, here is a sampling of some key projects:

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Project managment software for the rest of us

Submitted by Damien on Fri, 08/11/2006 - 3:31am

A really awesome find this evening. I've always been on the lookout for good project management tool. I've wanted something that was web-based (so that I could access it from anywhere), open-source (so that I had full control over the code if needed), easy to use, and able to cope with both my personal projects along with any consulting work I pick up along the way.

TIP: Apache rewrite rules forgetting stuff

Submitted by Damien on Thu, 08/10/2006 - 3:30am

On a side project I'm working on they're using Apache mod_rewrite rules to turn ugly page addresses into pretty ones, e.g.:

RewriteRule widget-(.*)\.htm$ widget.php?id=$1

Nice goal and in general it works well. There was a problem, though, when they started doing this the SAJAX AJAX fancy stuff I wrote stopped working.

TIP: IIS looses touch with ColdFusion

Submitted by Damien on Wed, 08/09/2006 - 8:44pm

This evening I was trying to install PHP on our Windows/IIS web server and had some unusual problems develop. It seems that first off a partially installed IIS rewrite engine decided to start causing problems, so I uninstalled it. At this point someone mentioned that our ColdFusion sites were failing so panic set it.

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