Archive
All posts ever written on this blog, neatly arranged by year and month
2010
June
- Recommended social media avatar sizes
A guide to the recommended sizes for avatar's on the various social media sites including twitter and facebook.
Posted: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 By: Aaron Williams - MonoTouch SQLite Performance Tip
A simple update to .Net data access code improved data access performance by 60%.
Posted: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 By: Aaron Williams
May
- Blog4Umbraco database cleanup
A couple of SQL scripts to remove unused tags and old data from your blog4umbraco installation.
Posted: Monday, May 17, 2010 By: Aaron Williams - FTP upload with .Net
Shows how to write a simple FTP upload client in .Net using c#.
Posted: Thursday, May 20, 2010 By: Aaron Williams
April
- Fake Flash Memory
How to identify fake (counterfeit) flash memory, and what you can do about it.
Posted: Thursday, April 01, 2010 By: Administrator - Finding nearby locations with iPhone GPS and MonoTouch
Example code to quickly find nearby locations programaticaly.
Posted: Saturday, April 03, 2010 By: Administrator - mtouch failed with no output solved
Solution for MonoTouch build error "mtouch failed with no output".
Posted: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 By: Administrator - Google Labs
Google Labs has an interesting collection of new applications being developed by Google Engineers.
Posted: Friday, April 23, 2010 By: Administrator
March
- Encoding video for the iPhone
Short guide to converting video for the iPhone.
Posted: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 By: Administrator - Programmatic document creation in umbraco
Explains how to create and call a web service on your umbraco site to programmaticaly create documents.
Posted: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 By: Aaron Williams
February
- Control your PC from your iPhone
A new application from Logitech now allows you to fully control your PC from your iPhone.
Posted: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 By: Administrator
January
- Analytics for IPhone Applications
Explores how developers can use the new Google Analytics for mobile packages to integrate analytics into IPhone and Android applications.
Posted: Friday, January 01, 2010 By: Administrator - Optimising the new Blog4Umbraco package for SEO
Tips on how to improve the new Blog4Umbraco package for maximum SEO potential.
Posted: Saturday, January 02, 2010 By: Administrator - SQL Express Backup
An easy way of automating the backup of all databases on an instance of SQL Express.
Posted: Sunday, January 03, 2010 By: Administrator - Creating a package in Umbraco
Guide showing how easy it is to create a package in umbraco.
Posted: Monday, January 04, 2010 By: Administrator - A more indepth look at 301 redirects
Examples of how to setup 301 redirects under both Apache and IIS.
Posted: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 By: Administrator - Creating IIS websites from the command line
Details about how to create an IIS website from the command line.
Posted: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 By: Administrator - Open Source .Net component for zipping files
An open source component for zipping files in .Net.
Posted: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 By: Administrator - Using .Net Membership controls with umbraco
Tips on using the standard asp.net membership controls with umbraco.
Posted: Thursday, January 07, 2010 By: Administrator - Rebuilding SQL Server Indexes
Simple script for rebuilding all SQL server indexes in a database.
Posted: Friday, January 08, 2010 By: Administrator - Using the ASP.Net Login control in umbraco
Step by step guide to using the ASP.net login control in umbraco.
Posted: Saturday, January 09, 2010 By: Administrator - Using SQL Server Query Profiler
Information on how to use SQL Server Query Profiler
Posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010 By: Administrator - Using Google Website Optimiser
Guide to using Google Website Optimiser (GWO) with umbraco.
Posted: Monday, January 11, 2010 By: Administrator - Accessing GPS data on the IPhone with MonoTouch
Short code example showing how to access GPS data on the IPhone using MonoTouch.
Posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 By: Administrator - Redgate SQL Compare
Information about a very useful utility for people managing multiple versions of an SQL database.
Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2010 By: Administrator - Rewrites are not Redirects
Many people often dont recognise the major diferences between URL rewriting vs redirection and the implications for SEO.
Posted: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 By: Administrator - IPhone Programming Books
Some good books to indroduce you to IPhone programming.
Posted: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 By: Administrator - How to shrink a SQL Server Transaction Log
A simple script to help you shrink a SQL Server 2005 log file and release the unused disk space.
Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2010 By: Administrator - Monotouch SQLite Example
A sample project showing how to use a SQLite database in MonoTouch.
Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2010 By: Administrator - Manage 3rd party app access to your Twitter account
Explains how to manage which 3rd party applications have access to your twitter account.
Posted: Friday, January 22, 2010 By: Administrator - Retrieving WhoIs information via .Net
How to retrieve WhoIs information via .Net.
Posted: Monday, January 25, 2010 By: Administrator - Setting up Google Mail for your domain
My experiences configuring Google mail to work with my domain.
Posted: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 By: Administrator
2009
December
- Umbraco Beginners Tips
Umbraco tips for creating sites with extensionless URL's and customised 404 error pages.
Posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009 By: Administrator - Configuring IIS to serve video content
Guide to configuring IIS to serve video content files such as .flv flash videos.
Posted: Friday, December 25, 2009 By: Administrator - SEO and the WWW subdomain
Guide to configuring www and non-www versions of websites for SEO best practice.
Posted: Saturday, December 26, 2009 By: Administrator - Creating a Google Sitemap in umbraco
Detailed guide with code showing how to create a google sitemap in umbraco.
Posted: Saturday, December 26, 2009 By: Administrator - Handling cross domain duplicate content issues
Explores the use of the rel=canonical tag to handle cross domain duplicate content issues.
Posted: Sunday, December 27, 2009 By: Administrator - Source control for home development
A complete open source solution for Windows based source control for home developers.
Posted: Monday, December 28, 2009 By: Administrator - IPhone Development with MonoTouch
Introduction to IPhone development with MonoTouch that allows .Net developers to create applications for the IPhone.
Posted: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 By: Administrator - NetTiers, Codesmith and Umbraco
Learn how to integrate the NetTiers application framework into your umbraco CMS solution.
Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 By: Administrator - Morgan Stanley 2009 Mobile Internet Report
Extensive Morgan Stanley research into the state of mobile internet (400+ pages).
Posted: Thursday, December 31, 2009 By: Administrator