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Hi All,   My third blog post, I am on a roll.   I was at a cleint recently where a ''Creative'' was having a debate about what colour signifies Security to them. He wanted to colour the header and footer of the secure shopping cart part of the site green to signal security, however I pitched my oar in and mentioned I thinking in ...

  Stuart Preston runs all of our infrastructure at Conchango, keeping our business running and our people talking to each other and clients - oh and he develops Vista side-bar gadgets, VSTS plug-ins and a whole bunch of other stuff!! After my blog post about the back of the ***-packet. He was kind (daft??) enough to send me the complete ...

  I was writing a blog post recently, and was describing some approximate and rough calculations. The way we might describe this in the UK is to call them ''back of a *** packet'' calculations. The word: '***' meaning cigarette. It's also a word used to describe a form of servitude common in English Public Schools a few years back (and some ...

As mentioned in the press recently, credit card fraud has soared, with APACs reporting an increase in card fraud for the first time since 2004! What is interesting is that domestic card fraud has also increased, despite the introduction of CHIP & PIN! This was mainly due to the fact that fraudsters were still able to use stolen credit card ...

An email from Paul Dawson went around one of Conchango's internal distribution lists a few weeks ago with a call to action for people to contribute more to our blog site. Apparently our tag cloud wasn't fully representative of the things that we are good at: I would agree with that. Whilst it is gratifying for me personally that the blogging ...

I am currently writing this blog entry on a flight somewhere over the USA using Windows Live Writer as my offline blogging tool. Anyone that has used it will tell you what a great tool it is for doing this. Currently Live Writer allows rich offline editing of blog posts. I think the fact that blogging tools such as Live Writer are not ...

Here's a little tip for you that I've found incredibly useful over the past few months - something that I suspect a lot of you do already. When I'm involved in a project on which I am implementing SSIS packages I like to keep all packages in a single SSIS-dedicated solution. Typically that solution will contain multiple projects ...

I've been blogging on this site for just over 2 and a half years now and thought now would be a good time to check out some of my blog stats and so I'm blogging about them here in case anyone is interested, and so that I can look back in the future to see how things have changed. Prior to publishing this post I ...

breaking news. The Popfly team have made a new release. Check out the most important new feature, more cowbell: http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!219.entry !!!   If you don't understand the cowbell reference, go and search on Youtube. -Jamie    

I use Flickr alot to host all of my digital photos but I tend to have a hard time uploading them all, for some reason the Flickr Uploader can be a bit tempremental, particularly for large files. Thankfully Flickr also allow you to upload emails by emailing them, as attachments, to an assigned email address. I wanted to write a tool that ...