Okay, so I like the new Gmail design – cleaner and more whitespace – just looks much more modern that the existing one. But it’s still bloody annoying ! The thing is, I hate having to go across to the little ‘back arrow’ reply icon, click the dropdown next to it, just to get to [...]
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SportyPal Screen Scraping with PowerShell
January 12th, 2011
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For the past year (2010) I had been using SportyPal – an application for tracking exercise (runs mainly for me). It has mobile apps (iPhone, Android, WinMob etc.) that do the actual tracking and then upload the data to their website where you can view history, graphs, charts, records etc. It really is neat, and [...]
Twitter oAuth from C#
October 6th, 2010
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A while back I was working on a ‘post to Twitter’ function that used the original Basic Authentication that the Twitter V1.0 API allowed. Unfortunately, at the end of Aug 2010 they discontinued support for this and forced everyone to use their oAuth authentication. There are a number of services around (such as SuperTweet) that [...]
Generate sitemaps using PowerShell
January 15th, 2010
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I was discussing ‘googlability’ – a new word I made up meaning ‘the ability to find via Google’ – of our knowledgebase with one of the technical guys at work.It seems that we seldom get matches in Google searches (and the built in search is somewhat lame) – I was quite surprised with the fact [...]
Access ODBC Connection Strings
January 13th, 2010
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I was working on an old (classic) ASP page the other day. It was pulling data from an Access database file and using an ODBC driver to get the connection. It was working fine on a Windows 2003 server, but when I pulled the file into a local website on my Windows 7 machine (with [...]
WebApp KeepAlive Service
September 26th, 2009
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Recently I have been working with DotNetNuke. This is a superb open source CMS platform running on ASP.NET with a SQL back end, simple to install, easy to use and there is a thriving community around it. It is also available in a ‘Professional’ version which costs around £2000 per year and provides additional workflow [...]
Google Results Ranking
June 3rd, 2009
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Disclaimer: Screenscraping results like this probably contravening Google’s Terms of Use (or something) and I do not advocate that you do it – this is purely hypothetical, if I did want to do it, this is how I would go about it Further Disclaimer: The results page formats could change at any time and may [...]
Remote Control via Twitter
January 18th, 2009
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Twitter is one of those applications / services that I’ve had trouble getting to grips with. For me it seems it’s like shouting about what you are doing right now to a huge audience that is not listening. Who really cares that @kjhughes is heading to the shops to get some Mint sauce ?? Maybe [...]
Online retailers – listen up
September 10th, 2008
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I buy a lot of stuff from online retailers and it never fails to amaze me how bad some aspect of the experience is always poor, seldom do I get a good experience end to end (purchase to delivery). So, this is Kens 4 step plan for online retailers to raise themselves from ‘one of [...]
Listen Live
July 21st, 2008
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Too much effort reading my ramblings ? Want to listen instead ? Now you can !! Courtesy of the excellent odiogo, the excellent text to speech service. This is a free service that bloggers can use, it takes your RSS feed, splits it out to each separate post and then creates a MP3 for the [...]
