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Microsoft Support Lifecycle

Below is a nice little site from Microsoft that tells you when a specific software version is planned to become unsupported: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/Default.aspx

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Transform wed.config files through TFS

http://www.andygeldman.com/index.php/2011/10/web-and-app-config-transformations-with-tfs-build/

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Building a Windows System Tray Application

One of the main issues I face with managing our companies internal applications is the fact that users never seem to send decent screenshot or details of a specific error. We receive numerous support tickets that include “[system] is not … Continue reading

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A New Milestone Has Been Reached

So it seems I have managed to keep this blog running for over 3 years now. This in my book deserves a celebration as prior to this one I had many false starts. So I don’t update this often but … Continue reading

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SkyDrive on Windows 8 with Office 2013: Turning a useful tool into a useless one

I’ve been a user of Dropbox for some time now and really like its simplicity, plus the way you can easily shared folders amongst other users. The only limiting factor was the free space they provided you which wasn’t too … Continue reading

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Woocommerce Gift Certificates

I’ve posted in the past about looking to create my own version of Gift Certificates for the WordPress WooCommerce plugin, the reason for this was because there was no current plugin that provided this functionality. During the past few months … Continue reading

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K2 Task List – iOS App

So our company have finally pushed out a policy to allow our iOS devices to connect to our corporate wifi, apart from the obvious benefits in intranet web access I am very excited about coupling K2 smartforms and the K2 … Continue reading

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K2 SmartObjects and Attachments

The K2 ServiceObject for SQL does not support some field types, one of them being varbinay, so to upload attachments you need to use nvarchar(MAX) as your database column type for the K2 ServiceObject to become aware of it. The … Continue reading

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Removing a File Through SSH

1. Navigate to the folder where the file exists 2. run the command “rm [filename]” 3. Confirm with a “y”

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Backup a MySQL Database Through SSH

1. Connect through SSH 2. Navigate to an accessible folder through FTP (eg “cd /var/www/vhosts/[sitename]) 3. Run the command “mysqldump –host localhost –user [username] –password [databasename] > [filename].sql 4. Enter password when prompted 5. View file in FTP viewer in … Continue reading

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