Archive for May, 2010

Unable to Determine Parse Mode!

Looks like W3C validator is down again!! Hopefully it will be back up soon:)

Google 502 server error

Anyone else getting a google 502 server error this morning or is it just me?

Outlook Express Send and Receive Error: 0x800CCC0E

I came across a problem with Outlook Express today where the client could receive email, but could not send it. After looking up the error code on Microsofts Website, I found this KB Article highlighting a known issue with MSN which prevents any other outgoing mail service from being used while MSN is connected. However, [...]

What does SEO stand for?

This may sound like a trick question: everyone knows what SEO stands for don’t they? Ok, Ok, it stands for Search Engine Optimisation, or search engine optimization if your American. What I’m really pondering is the broader meaning of SEO – there are so many under-hand methods of achieving higher rankings – and there are so [...]

Internal scars

Went to see my friends band last night – they’re called internal scars. They have a really good sound and will hopefully be a big thing!!

Aol blacklist removal: update

Just got a reply from aol postmaster and our exchange server has been removed from their blacklist. It has taken about 3 days. But they were helpfull – I must says it’s easier than getting removed from Yahoo’s blacklist!!

Running multiple DHCP servers in an SBS 2003 Environment

Found out today that SBS 2003 does not allow another dhcp server on the same network – if it detects one running, it will terminate the local DHCP service. Normally 1 DHCP server is enough, but sometimes its nice to have some redundancy in place. It took me ages to find a work around for [...]

VisitPhilly.com – Reviewed

Read my review of the recently re-designed Visitphilly.com – A great example of Design and UX (User Experience) working together.

Getting removed from AOLs Blacklist

I had a recent problem where our exchange server was blacklisted by AOL – I think this was because we didn’t have a custom Reverse DNS record setup for the mail server (IE our RDNS was bt-so-and-so.btaddressspace.com and should have been mail.ourdomain.com) – we sorted this out via our ISP – in this case it [...]

Flinks.org taken down

Unfortunately I have now decided to take Flinks.org down – the reasons are partly because I dont have time to update it, and secondly because I dont really support directories so I thought it was a bit hypocrital to be hosting a directory!

Cmsmadesimple upgrade to 1.7.1

Just finished upgrading Shareworld from Cmsmadesimple Version 1.7 to 1.7.1. It took quite some time because I have modified News Module files and Admin files – I was going to leave the News module as it was but it seems theres been some sort of upgrade done to it – as my news items would [...]

Fundraising

Shareworld is donating all of it’s revenue over the next 7 days to help support www.nikki-fundraising.co.uk. Please visit the site and show your support.

Php share prices on shareworld

Just finished the beta of a share price lookup tool for shareworld. The tool is written in php and will look up price information from yahoo finance and will also return news items relating to the company in question. The tool accepts company name as well as ticker symbol. Take a look at it here

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