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Migrating your iPhone contacts to your Android phone
I recently moved from an iPhone to an Android phone. My immediate concern was how to move my contacts over between the two devices. iCloud backup of my contacts really came in handy for this. First, make sure to have your contacts backed up to iCloud. Log in to iCloud at https://www.icloud.com/ using your Apple ID […]
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Fixing crashed WordPress comments
I recently noticed that I had lost all my comments from the Enterpriseyness blog (this website, a WordPress site). I decided to look at the database table that stores my comments. By default, the comments are stored in wp_comments but you have the option to use any prefix other than ‘wp’ when you are setting […]
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Fixing the GoDaddy WordPress FTP credentials issue
Over the past few years, people have been writing about an intermittent issue with WordPress sites hosted on GoDaddy where upon trying to update the WordPress site, the user is prompted for FTP credentials but the credentials are not accepted.This issue doesn’t seem to occur on fresh installations and no one is quite sure what […]
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A review of Themify’s Minshop theme
Minshop is a responsive WooCommerce theme from the good people at themify.me. In building out the eCommerce solution for The Men’s Fashion, Minshop has allowed us to jump start the front end thus saving weeks of design effort and allowed us team to deliver a working product in minimal time. Responsive Layout Minshop is an HTML5 WordPress theme with […]
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ASP.NET MVC4 Project + SQL CE 4 limitations
With the official RTM release of Visual Studio 2012 and the MVC 4 project (also available for VS 2010), I have been using some of the features of new features and out of the box features of hte MVC 4 project to ease the development of my user stories. SQL CE 4 made database backends […]
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Hosted source control and project management with Subversion and Team Foundation Server
I have been using Subversion for many years both professionally and on open source projects (mainly Razor Image Viewer). Initially, I had Subversion running as a service on my local computer but the more I thought about a strategy for backing up my work, the more it made sense to use a hosted environment. The […]
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iOS ‘native’ web apps with HTML5
I’ve been considering iOS development recently but I don’t have a Mac on which to develop. Alternatively, I have been looking into HTML5 ‘native’ web apps. These are web apps that look and feel like native iOS applications. I am using my Batch Image Resize web app for my R&D on this topic. Installation The […]
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Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application with SQL CE 4 & Entity Framework without installation
Update – 12/15/2011 As of Visual Studio 2010 SP1, there’s an easier way to do everything below. In the Solution Explorer, right click the project and select ‘Add Deployable Dependencies…’, select the dependencies you want to include, and click OK. This will generate the folder _bin_deployableAssemblies with the proper DLLs. Now when you build your solution, […]
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Login/Register page design
I recently went to the Getty Villa website to get some tickets and came across their login/registration screen. Sadly, their page looks like the type of examples used in hyperbole-filled academic books on how NOT to design the login page. The notes defined here can be applied to most any user interface design. Consistency of […]
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Breaking Change in Cruise Control .NET 1.6
Building on my earlier post about Setting up Cruise Control .NET 1.5/1.6 on Windows 7 + IIS7, I have identified a breaking change with CruiseControl .NET 1.6.x. For readability, I like to place each -D flag in my <buildArgs> definition on a separate line <tasks>� <nant> <executable>$(NAntExecutablePath)</executable> <buildFile>D:cidefault.build.xml</buildFile> <buildArgs> -D:SolutionFile=”$(Batch_WorkingFolderTrunk)MySolution.sln” -D:LocalDeployRoot=D:cideployMyProject </buildArgs> <targetList> <target>build</target> </targetList> […]