I’ve recently had to move an ecommerce site from a .com domain to a .co.uk. Since the .com was well indexed by the search engines I wanted to use a 301 Permanent Redirect method. The site is hosted on Windows 2003 using IIS6 so I set about finding a solution. It turns out (although it [...]

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Google are now offering overflow storage space to those that need it. If you are one of the people who have managed to use up the free quotas of 1GB on Picasa and 2.8GB for Gmail accounts then you can go and buy yourself another 6GB of storage for just $20/year. Sounds like a bargain, [...]

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It’s one thing getting a call to a 9 year old server refusing to start, but quite another when you discover it has 9 years of dust on it. From the pictures below is there any wonder it didn’t work. The answer is you virtualise it

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Yippee – i’ve won a copy of Vista Ultimate from one of Microsoft’s launch competitions. Not quite as excited as I should be, since I already have 10 copies of Vista Business edition and have been using Vista for several months now. Oh well, never mind. UPDATE: Just realised that it is worth £300, so  [...]

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Hot on the heels of the Thickbox plugin for WordPress is the Litebox Plugin for WordPress. I had a couple of requests to make it, and amazingly couldn’t find it already done by someone else. (I did find a Thickbox plugin, but it was not in English so decided mine was still worth releasing). The [...]

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A while ago, I wrote a quick plugin for WordPress for displaying images using the excellent Thickbox script by the very clever Cody Lindley. I have now zipped it up and it can be downloaded from its new home http://www.gavinbarker.co.uk/wpthickbox/

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Microsoft have finally gotten around to sending me a big bundle of software again including 10 copies each of Windows Vista and Office 2007. After spending half a day messing, both Sonia and I are now running these full versions on desktop computers. Laptops will be sticking with Windows XP for now as they just [...]

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Just been chosen to develop a new website for East Yorkshire based Architects, Salt. The site will be a showcase of work they have done in the past.

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After treating myself for Christmas to some new computer bits I am now running Windows Vista and Office 2007 full time. After wasting many hours with sloooow network problems, I finally tracked it to a faulty network cable – the same cable that had been in my machine for the last 2 years so why [...]

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Still in the early stages, but I am plodding on with galtopia. A top secret web application for creating galleries for professional (and amateur) photographers who want something simple yet stylish.

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