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Peak Oil
February 18, 2009I have to preface this post by saying I’m environmentally selfish, it is only because I see that it effects me that I care. Greenpeace and organisations of their ilk sound to me like people with too much time on their hands. According to wikipedia optimistic estimates of when we will reach the point at [...]
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No Visual Studio Template Information Found
February 18, 2009Today I turned on Visual Studio to discover that I could no longer add any project items. I vaguely remembered seeing some sort of warning message so I restarted Visual Studio, tried it again and low and behold it said my templates were broken, go check the error log for more details. I find the [...]
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Generic Method Overloading in C#
February 17, 2009Say you have an outer method: public OuterMethod(object x) { InnerMethod(x); } and an inner method with these overloads public InnerMethod(object x) { //Generic Actions } public InnerMethod(Person x) { //Person Specific Actions } public InnerMethod(Dog x) { // Dog Specific Actions } How do you make it so that when the outer method calls [...]
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Google Apps
February 17, 2009I’ve been using gmail for over 3 years now, I’m only at 5 percent of my total inbox size, 410 MB. Can you imagine how the vast majority of non web mail email programs would perform with that many emails. Outlook seems to strugle on my machine as is. Well its nothing new, but I [...]
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WordPress, simple to set up, simple to maintain.
February 15, 2009I’ve returned to WordPress after a long time of using Drupal. I have to say I’m very impressed. Drupal is a wonderful system, I’ve written before on my previous blog about how it made writing easily maintainable modules quick and simple, the problem I had with it was that for my requirments, it was far [...]
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Digiweb, Rackspace and NamesCo Sales Strategies
February 14, 2009I’ve always been one to ignore the professionalism of a sales team and base my choice of company on reputation, specifications and speed of delivery. Recently three companies have given me cause to consider how important it is to appear professional in every aspect of your business.
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Downtime
February 14, 2009This is my last Blacknight rant… I hope, I had some downtime recently, just thought I’d explain why.
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Gaining ground in arguments
February 13, 2009Whether you are a plumber or an astrophysicist, computer programmer or weather man the most important requirement to the success of your career is your ability to deal with people. I’ve been trying to make sure that everything that gets put up on this blog adds some value to the Internet. So the first line [...]
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Blacknight, Windows VPS, MSSQL and ASP.net
February 10, 2009So I spent far too much time trying to figure out how to get their Windows VPS to work. Here is what worked for me. This post expects you’ve done a Windows install before.
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Not impressed with Blacknight
February 10, 2009This is my second post on Blacknight, it won’t be as clinical or as favourable as my previous one. To surmise, over the past while I’ve found them to be inadequate on so many levels, the company has spent more than the difference between the average insanely expensive provider in Ireland and any Blacknight shared [...]
