Better 404 Pages From Google Webmaster Central
Wednesday 20, 2008

Better 404 Pages From Google Webmaster Central

If you have not visited Google’s Webmaster Central website you should, they have a bunch of tools to help websites and web developers. Today on the Google Webmaster Central Blog there was an excellent article on how to make your 404 pages more useful.
Instead of just displaying the standard 404 message, Google gives you some [...]

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How To Add a System Tray Icon For TortoiseSVN
Wednesday 27, 2008

How To Add a System Tray Icon For TortoiseSVN

TortoiseSVN is arguably the best SVN client for Windows, my favorite for sure. The only negative aspect he program comes with is that TSVNCache.exe becomes very large in memory over time. This process keeps a cached state of your folders under source code control.
There is a way of putting an icon in the system [...]

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Wednesday 27, 2008

Easy MySQL Backups on a Windows Server

During the re-launch of BlueCrestStudios we moved to a Windows server. It was part of our initiative to take things back to our roots, and make things simpler. Because we run a fair amount of PHP applications we went with MySQL as our database. MySQL comes with a great little application called "mysqldump" which simply [...]

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How I Dropped Outlook Like a Bad Habit
Wednesday 26, 2007

How I Dropped Outlook Like a Bad Habit

I have had a couple questions lately on how I handle all of my emails, so here goes:
Like many out there I have used Outlook for the longest time, longer than I can remember actually. I had a huge PST file with emails dating back to college. When I got a PDA for work purposes, [...]

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Wednesday 12, 2007

Tips For Updating WordPress

WordPress has made it fairly simple to update to a new version, but there are some little quirks that come along with it. Here are a couple of tips I have implemented over the years for a smooth upgrade path.
Your Do Not Need To Be The First:
Unless you are doing a review or [...]

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