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I’ve Written My Own WordPress Site Theme

OK, so for all you WordPress design experts out there this is not exactly world shattering news, but this has taken me quite a while and several false starts to achieve. As you can see from the new look and feel of the site (if you ever saw it before) I have changed to a Read More

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Adding Calendar Events to Google Calendar in C#

I’ve replaced a custom event page for the Thistle Society with a list extracted dynamically from a Google Calendar. Following on from the previous article, Loading XML in C# with XML Serialisation, I needed to upload the events into the Google Calendar from my C# application (Event Manager). To do this, first spend hours scouring Read More

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Loading XML in C# with XML Serialisation

The problem – I have a lot of event details for a local club in an XML file and I wanted to load them into a C# application which will import them into a Google Calendar (see my earlier article to understand why). I originally started to write a C# application to maintain the events Read More

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Embedding Google Calendar Events in a Club Web Site

I maintain a web site for a Scottish Country Dancing group, Thistle Society Wigan (http://www.thistlesociety.org.uk/).  As part of this I need to update the list of forthcoming events for the society and this can be quite time consuming. So I wondered if I could find a way to simplify the way events were maintained – Read More

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An Update on iPhone Email Settings with Vodafone and Virgin Media

I wrote a while ago about setting up my email on my iPhone – it worked, then it didn’t work and then it worked and… Until tonight it didn’t work – I could receive emails fine, but it wouldn’t send them out.  From my original Virgin Media account settings, the outgoing SMTP server didn’t work Read More

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Windows 7 Can’t Access Windows Server Shares

OK, I said I was chuffed with Windows 7 – but there was one problem that caused me some agro – accessing my other computers’ shared drives on the network. I was somewhat disappointed when I realised that it insisted on joining this “HomeGroup” – of course I had purchased the upgrade to Home Premium Read More

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Apple iPhone Email with Vodafone, Virgin Media and Outlook 2003

–> See An Update on iPhone Email Settings with Vodafone and Virgin Media for a better and more up to date solution! It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally managed to get my email working properly (send and receive) on my iPhone.  The initial setup was relatively easy (my teenage daughter did it for me) but Read More

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I’ve Re-built My Inspiron 8600 Laptop: Windows 7 Dual Booted With Ubuntu Linux 10.4

I thought this might be of interest to anyone else who is trying to do a similar task…  I bought the laptop in April 2004, Windows XP Professional and a 40 GB HDD, and I’ve rebuilt it a couple of times and upgraded it with a 120 GB Hard Disk and more memory. Recently, however, Read More

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Apple iPhone Web Site Icons

A colleague mentioned the BBC iPlayer for the iPhone – so I tried it.  Not bad!  He also mentioned that he had the icon on his home screen – just like an App.  I had a play and that’s when I found out what the “Add to Home Screen” button meant when you click the Read More

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How to Identify Project Use Cases

I’ve spent an awful lot of time over the last few years identifying and writing use cases.   Often, I am asked a few common questions by people associated with the project – what is a use case, how do you write them, how do you identify use cases, what’s the point of them?  This posting Read More

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