Rest In Peace Drex
Today at 3:00 PM I put my dog of six years to sleep. I got Drex in 2004 when his previous owner was out of the house for too long during the day and Drex needed constant companionship. Luckily I never left the house and we fit together well. He was a great dog, […]
My “So What” positioning statement
As I’m currently reading Mark Magnacca’s excellent book “So What” (regarding marketing) I offer my humble Positioning Statement Me: Do you know how you always forget people you meet and then don’t see for a while? Potential Customer: Oh yes, that happens to me all the time Me: Well, Stronico helps you remember people by […]
I don’t post for a week and the hits go up!
By that logic, I wonder how many hits I got before I even started the blog! 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
I apologize for my earlier book review
My last post was a review of Work The System by Sam Carpenter. In the book I erroneously conflated several themes and accidentally inserted a quote from a review in progress into the Work The System review. I have taken the original review down it will not reappear. I apologize for the errors. This post originally […]
How to fix the “The service cannot be activated because it requires ASP.NET compatibility” error
The Problem: You try to access your web service on IIS 7 and you get the following error The service cannot be activated because it requires ASP.NET compatibility. ASP.NET compatibility is not enabled for this application. Either enable ASP.NET compatibility in web.config or set the AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsAttribute.AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode property to a value other than Required. at System.ServiceModel.Activation.HostedAspNetEnvironment.ValidateCompatibilityRequirements(AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode […]
Adventures with PayPal Website Payments Pro and Authorize.net
Several days ago I decided to use PayPal’s Website Payments Pro system for the Stronico credit card processing system. At the time, I thought PayPal was the obvious choice. It had relatively low fees (about $60 per month), no setup fee, and it seemed to be the 800 pound gorilla in the space, so how […]
The Five Whys meet the Five Whats
People like to use the Five Whys of Toyota to diagnose problems (in deductive fashion). I use the 5 Whats to explain what I do for a living, Stronico, and my music. Which version you get depends on what I think your subject matter expertise happens to be. For my consulting company the 5 Whats […]
How to fix the “550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable or not local” email problem
The Problem: You send an email to someone and get the following back Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: Any Subject Sent: 6/4/2010 2:31 PM The following recipient(s) cannot be reached: This User on 6/4/2010 2:31 PM Server error: ‘550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable or […]
How to Fix: Canonical Urls with IIS 7’s Url Rewrite feature for https
The Problem: You want to make your website all SEO friendly by creating a single, canonical url. For example, if someone types in https://www.stronico.com, you want them to be redirected to https://stronico.com (Google likes it this way). You do some research and discover that all of the default code and documentation for handling canonical Urls […]
Creativity, Isolation and Endurance Sports
Leo Babauta recently wrote The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People on ZenHabits.net, and the number one habit is solitude. By eerie coincidence I recently finished reading Switch: How To Change When Change Is Hard by the Heath brothers, which makes something of the same point. The rational portion of your brain (the rider as […]