Security

I did business with Priceline and paid a big price

[caption id="attachment_1527" align="aligncenter" width="610"] My inbox contained quite a surprise today[/caption] Clearly, something had gone wrong over there at Priceline. When ...

Why we don’t need to be concerned about the Epsilon security breach

In case you have not heard or read about this, take a look at this WSJ article before you continue. ...

Godaddy And The Politics Of Mailserver Blacklisting

The effectiveness of black-listing mail servers is questionable. The overall spam volume does not appear to be impacted and keeps going ...

Setup projects with SQL Server Compact Edition (CE) databases

This article is no longer relevant. In Visual Studio 2008 SP1, setup projects allow you to select the 'User's Application ...

Another virus infection, courtesy of Yahoo News

The file was gone, but it was too late by then, the infection had already happened. CPU load was increasing, ...

Information Technology

Windows 7 – Drag and Drop into Assembly Cache (GAC)

And once again I wasted a good hour trying out all the suggestions for how to fix the Permission denied ...

VMWare conversion – New VM does not boot

But before I get to this, I will describe the symptoms that you have likely observed. When you boot the VM, ...

Garmin Forerunner and Samsung Kies: USB software incompatible!

Last week I had to push out an update of my TripsNMiles Android application to Google Play. I had not ...

Click here if you don’t want to wait any longer.

[caption id="attachment_1552" align="aligncenter" width="622"] Wanna wait? Then don't click.[/caption] That's ok, BigCommerce, I love to wait - even though I don't ...

I did business with Priceline and paid a big price

[caption id="attachment_1527" align="aligncenter" width="610"] My inbox contained quite a surprise today[/caption] Clearly, something had gone wrong over there at Priceline. When ...

How to (re)connect to a Bluetooth headset in Windows 8

[caption id="attachment_1466" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Bluetooth devices in Windows 8[/caption] However, I have a little bit of relief for you. While many ...

OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD and Lenovo Thinkpad T430s

Write Errors Everything appeared to work fine at first, but once the T430s entered into sleep mode while I was working ...

XBMC – Possibly the last media player I will own

[caption id="attachment_1286" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="My Showcenter 200 sold for $51 plus shipping on Ebay in 2008"][/caption] The ShowCenter had its weaknesses ...

Should I build on 6 or 7? (Drupal 7 Module Availability)

Drupal Module Availability for Version 7 (as of 7/7/2011) Module Latest 6 Latest Recommended Latest 7 Notes Content Construction Kit (CCK) 6.x-2.9 6.x-2.9 7.x-2.x-dev Most ...

ASP.Net MasterPage: How to use the page name in CSS skinning

Sometimes it can be convenient to create CSS styles that are unique to a specific page context, either because a ...

Click here if you don’t want to wait any longer.

That’s ok, BigCommerce, I love to wait – even though I don’t understand the concept of making people wait before you show them the search results.

Business Intelligence Showcase by pod consulting

The Business Intelligence Showcase demonstrates our expertise with Microsoft’s business intelligence application suite. These technologies include the SQL Server database, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. Recently added to the stack was the .Net chart control, a very powerful component that greatly improves productivity for producing visually appealing charts and diagrams on web sites and Windows [...]

QNAP NAS – Porting a Joomla Site

I am in the process of migrating my NAS content from a Synology RS-407 to the new QNAP TS-459U – very exciting. I will do performance comparisons soon, and the Synology device will end up on Ebay in a few weeks. For now I just want to report a small issue that cost me a [...]

Presentation Slides

The presentation slides from the 30th Internationalization and Unicode Conference are available right here. The presentation slides from the Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies are available right here.

Garmin Forerunner and Samsung Kies: USB software incompatible!

Last week I had to push out an update of my TripsNMiles Android application to Google Play. I had not used the development environment for about a year, and to avoid any issues I updated the Samsung Kies software on the development machine. The next time I wanted to upload 2 weeks worth of workout [...]

Why we don’t need to be concerned about the Epsilon security breach

A data breach at a little-known entity that affected companies from J.P. Morgan ChaseJPM -0.02% & Co. to TiVo Inc. TIVO -2.79% is shining a light on the outsourcing of email marketing campaigns, a practice that has grown steadily over the past decade as consumers become less responsive to commercial pitches. In case you have [...]

Business Intelligence Showcase by pod consulting

The Business Intelligence Showcase demonstrates our expertise with Microsoft’s business intelligence application suite. These technologies include the SQL Server database, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. Recently added to the stack was the .Net chart control, a very powerful component that greatly improves productivity for producing visually appealing charts and diagrams on web sites and Windows [...]

The Daily Drama’s Online Music Launch Pad

Sonett77.com – Electronic music radio (Germany) Play.fm – DJ sessions (Austria) Hitradio.de (Germany) – Web radio with special interest streams Rautemusik.fm – Web radio (Germany) Quu.fm (Germany) Byte.fm (Germany) – Online radio with a journalistic touch Musicovery.com (France) - ”Interactive” web readio One.fm (USA) – The music starts here Di.fm (USA) – Digitally imported Last.fm (USA) – Largest [...]

25/25 FIOS Upgrade

I upgraded my FIOS service at home from 5/1 Mbps to 25/25 Mbps for almost the same cost ($10 more). This was a while ago, but for the first time today I actually measured transfer rates close to the nominal speed. I am not using the ActionTec router, but a Netgate M1n1wall running pfSense that [...]

XBMC – Possibly the last media player I will own

Part I – XBMC Live About 6 years ago I purchased my first media player – the then newly launched Pinnacle Showcenter 200. It was an exciting new device with countless possibilities. It helped define a market that previously had not existed. Alas, Pinnacle’s acquisition by Avid in 2005, the ensuing lackluster support and product management, [...]