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Using a Bespoke CDN with WordPress

I have been helping a friend with his website lately and again it started to slow down, due to the massive traffic the site gets. The last time I checked the stats Elephant Journal get’s 250,000 visitors a month with approximately 450,000 page views! That’s quite a busy wee site. A while back we moved [...]

Linq to Objects vs Generic List

If you know me, then you know I like to make things run fast. I like testing performance of my software. So with a recent website, I noticed that I query a tiny database table a lot. There surely is a faster why to do it, and with Linq statements you can query in memory [...]

ASP.net Weird Bug

The Problem Could someone explain the following to me. I have a page with a couple of buttons on it. They sit nicely next to each other with a nice gap. Here’s the Html (webforms): <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="test.aspx.cs" Inherits="test" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head runat="server"> <title></title> [...]

ASP.net C# – List vs IList

Sorry for reopening this old debate, but I have been struggling with getting my head around this concept but came to a conclusion of my own. The problem I build lots of websites and in work we have our own internal CMS engine that works the way we work. It has the following (simplified) structure: [...]

Rate My Yoga Teacher

Lost in a yoga jungle This weekend saw the launch of an idea I have been having for a week or so while now. I have a great yoga teacher, but when she is unable to run a block of classes am kinda lost. Where should I go? Who should I speak to? ARGH!! Ok [...]

Google Maps API v3.0 – Multiple Markers, Multiple Infowindows

Like many of you out there that use Google Maps, when v3.0 of it came out you jumped at the chance to use it! But I couldn’t get the multiple markers, multiple info windows to work, no matter what I found on Google’s site. Searching got me to this blog: http://www.svennerberg.com/2009/09/google-maps-api-3-infowindows And it states this [...]

Fighting Cancer with Music

Many of you that read my blog The few of you that read my blog may have seen that I have been helping a good friend Donna, build her website and promote her charity Fighting Cancer with Music. She is currently promoting an event in Taylor, Texas for her friend Jenny Tepernning: The Jenny Benefit [...]

Adobe, put up or shut up

Just read this post. Good on ya! http://www.poorlyrendered.com/2010/05/adobe-should-release-a-flash-player-for-iphone-os/ People should put up or shut up! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this Recommend on Facebook Share on Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet this Follow this posts comments

Timesheets : A virtual Tiny new home

I was shown last week a new virtual server setup from Fasthosts. It’s pretty awesome, and it comes with Windows 2008 therefore IIS 7.0, and then you can add SQL Server 2008 Express edition for free. So basically a lovely big chunky new server for a small amount of money, less than my current server! [...]

Yoga Glasgow

It’s been a few weeks now that this website went live, but I was busy with http://tiny.projecttime.co.uk/ so blogging about it was put to the side. Yoga Glasgow, run by Siobhan Fitzgerald, is another yoga school based in Glasgow. It was also another site run on an open source CMS engine, Joomla again I believe, [...]