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Web Project Management Methodologies and Pitfalls

February 9, 2011

This is a talk i gave to the IET in October 2010: You need to view the full post to see the slides. Web Project Management Methodologies and Pitfalls View more presentations from markedgington.

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How do i delete SVN folders?

May 26, 2010

When deploying websites, all SVN folders should be deleted, but SVN doesn’t include any built in commands to do this. The registry hack below can do this for you – it adds “Delete SVN Folders” to the context menu for folders. When you select it, it removes all folders named .svn inside the folder and [...]

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Flash IE6 and SSL Issues

October 20, 2009

Flash or data within flash not loading in IE6? Just change the following headers in code

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Hash key on a mac keyboard osx

October 10, 2009

Having trouble finding the hash key on your Mac keyboard? hold the Alt key down and then press the number 3.

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BlackBerry QuickKeys and Shortcuts

September 25, 2009

Every Day Quick Tips Alt+O = Outbox (sent items) Alt+I = Inbox (received items) Alt+U = Marks messages as read/unread Alt+P = Phone call log Alt+S = SMS messages Alt+V = Voicemail messages Alt+M = MMS messages. U – to cycle through unread messages Once inside the message and you need to: Reply, r. Forward, [...]

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How to repair a VMWare Virtual Disk on OSX

September 9, 2009

If your having an issue with your virtual disk it is worth trying the following: Open a Terminal window /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -R /Users/(USERNAME_HERE or Directory where VM installed)/Virtual\ Machines.localized/Windows\ Vista.vmwarevm/Windows\ Vista.vmdk If this fails with a message like ‘FILE: FileIO_Lock on ‘/Users/Shared/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows Vista.vmwarevm/Windows Vista.vmdk’ failed: Lock timed out’ then: cd /Users/(USERNAME_HERE or Directory [...]

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Link Baiting

July 9, 2009

What does that mean? Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is a buzz word in the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) world and has come to be the preferred method of natural link building. And in English? You need to create Linkbait. Essentially it is a piece of content placed on a web page – whether it’s an [...]

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Cookie Sniffing and Trading

May 7, 2009

What does that mean? There are networks of  companies  who create cookies on your machine and use these to track  your behaviour  across multiple websites.                         And in English? You will see ad  based content on one site based on  your activity on another and you won’t even  know it  happened.                         Who invented   it? [...]

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