How to measure offline social influence – a first attempt
photo © 2007 Kevin Dooley | more info (via: Wylio)People have not written much about offline social influence. Here is my first attempt on how to do that. My intent of this is not to create an exact, objective measurement. My intent is to create a useful measurement that can be recorded and used […]
The most time-saving sql code I have ever written
photo © 2007 gnizr | more info (via: Wylio) I decided to update my JargonDatabase.com web property last month started to update define the user-submitted jargon terms. Much to my surprise users had submitted over 15,000 unique undefined jargon terms. Some of them were conceptual duplicates, like “whites of their eyes” and “the whites of their […]
An update on the mysterious PhotoShop color shift
The problem started happening to me again recently, the information I found at this link fixed it. This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been moved to the Digital Tool Factory blog
How to prevent images and photos from being stolen your site
The Problem: You need to prevent people from saving images and photos that are featured on your website The Cause: There is no real solution to this – if you can see it online, you can copy it, but you can make it more difficult. The Solution: Insert this bit of code in your BODY […]
An inspiring comment from Keith Smith on Mixergy
photo © 2009 David Bleasdale | more info (via: Wylio)I was listening to Keith Smith on an old interview on Mixergy and he caught my ear with his description of losing most of his fortune in a business downturn. It went something like this: Andrew Warner (the interviewer): So you lost everything? Keith Smith: Well, […]
Zachary Burt writes one of the better blogs about positive psychology
As those of you who know me personally know I have a new obsession in the form of positive psychology. My main gripe is that I cannot find trustworthy online guides on the topic (like one would for, say woodturning or baking). Thus I was delighted to find the blog of Zachary Burt. He has not written […]
How to fix the copy file problem in C#
photo © 1918 National Library of Scotland | more info (via: Wylio)The Problem: You need to copy a file from one location on the server to another and cannot remember how. The Cause: It is too short and simple, and easily forgotten The Solution: Just use the following code: public static void CopyAndRenameFile(string OldPath, string OldFileName, string NewPath, string NewFileName) { if (File.Exists(OldPath + OldFileName)) { File.Copy(OldPath + OldFileName, NewPath + NewFileName, true); } } That’s […]
How to fix the “Unable to cast object of type” problem
photo © 2008 Justin Gurbisz | more info (via: Wylio) The Problem – you have several asp.net web controls (.ascx files) in your website project and for no obvious reason you suddenly get the error “Unable to cast object of type ‘YourWebControlName_ascx’ to type ‘YourWebControlName_ascx’.” You recompile and the program works, then stops working. You […]
Suggestions for Gates, Buffett and Turner – Home Insulation Edition
photo © 2006 Fin Fahey | more info (via: Wylio)On Sunday I watched Christianne Amanpour’s interview with Bill & Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett and Ted Turner on This Week on Sunday. All three espoused some form of SpiderMan conservatism. The only interesting thing that emerged from the interview was that the Gates Foundation funds experimental […]
Why bother with E-Checks?
I recently tried to buy The Entrepreneur´s Guide to Customer Development for Tech Startups and was alarmed to learn that the payment method I used (PayPal) uses an e-Check system by default. My PayPal account is tied to a regular bank account and everything comes out of that. Now apparantly I must wait for […]