If you happen to be using Xero for your company accounts and Stripe for your transactions, you will probably have discovered that reconciling the bank records against the transactions in Stripe is not the easiest thing to. It means exporting from Stripe and messing around in Excel before importing into Xero. This was way too …
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Redirect Sub-sub Domains on Multi-Tenanted Websites
I run the SOP creation and implementation website Way We Do. It is a multi-tenanted website in as far as each company that signs up chooses their own subdomain and can customize the branding. During the sign up process, we had to be very clear to the non-technical user exactly what choosing a subdomain was …
Git Extensions Quick Tip – Updating remotes
I have both a desktop and a laptop that I work on and use Git Extensions. Every so often I create a branch on one machine, commit it and then push it to my remote origin. My problem is that when I boot up my other machine, I can never remember how to see that …
Convert to Apple Lossless Codec: The Easy Way
Playing lossless codecs like APE or FLAC in itunes or on your iphone is not so easy as there is no native support for them. Converting them to the Apple equivalent is also quite tricky. Many people recommend installing media players that support this conversion or purchasing a commercial product to do it. However, there …
Using Beyond Compare 3 With Git Extensions
It seems I have gained a reputation amongst my peers to be a diff tool hopper. That is, I am on a quest to find the perfect diff tool for my development. I think I have given just about every free tool out there a good run for it’s money and tend to move to …
Migrating from SVN to Git on MediaTemple (gs)
After seeing a video on using Mecurial on Codeplex I finally took the plunge into distribute revision control. Although Mercurial seemed to have better integration with Visual Studio, which is my main IDE, I decided to use Git instead. This decision was based purely on a gut feeling about which would be the best choice …
Windows Server 2008, ASP.NET, Pre-compiling and Virtual Directories
There has been an interesting problem at work over the last couple of weeks. We are in the process of preparing to move service providers and at the same time upgrading all our servers to run Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. In preparation for this move, we have been upgrading our staging and …
Do You Speak HTML?
Ever since I have been living away from my home country of England, I have noticed myself picking up on what I would consider misuses of the English language. On the most part, they are Americanisms, for which I take great pleasure and amusement in refusing to understand, until the person uses the English pronunciation. …
Windows UAC. Get Over It.
The slating of Microsofts UAC has recently been reborn now that the early adopters of Windows 7 have found security flaws in the new version. It reminded me of the outrage that occurred when it was first introduced in Vista and at this late stage, prompts me to point out something that was conveniently overlooked …
PuTTY Auto Login at Media Temple (gs)
For one of my projects, I use the Media Temple Grid Service for hosting. They offer ssh access to the hosting, which is superb and coupled with svn repositories, enables me to keep all the source there too. Using a nice, secure complex password to log on with the ssh client, my IDE and my …