A note about the Stronico blog traffic
As you might expect, most of the traffic comes from Google, and curiously most of the search terms are about problems with QuickBooks. The How To Fix series is the second most popular. Happily the search term “Visual Contact Management” is a prominent search term as well. I’m still debating as to whether or not […]
What is the best jQuery modal popup method?
I do not know that much about jQuery, or any of it’s offshoots (jQueryUI, etc) but I do have a need for modal popups. As I am building the website in ASP.net MVC, instead of ASP.net webforms I have decided to use the jQuery platform instead of the standard Ajax Toolkit. I have looked over […]
Thoughts on the Apple iPad and the Kindle
photo credit: Rego – twitter.com/w3bdesign First things first, I have not seen the Apple iPad. I am an enthusiastic owner of an Amazon Kindle. I honestly don’t see what the hype is about. Granted, I never do with Apple products, but I can’t even see it from Apple’s point of view this time. The Kindle […]
How to fix Print to PDF problem in QuickBooks 2010 – Version Two
The Problem: QuickBooks 2010 refuses to print to pdf when you attempt to send an invoice on Vista 64 bit. The Cause: Quickbooks 2010 on Vista 64 bit does not work well. The Solution: Close all programs, go to the Task Manager and make sure that Outlook is not open in the Processes. Reopen QuickBooks […]
Non-Disclosure Agreements are the Kiss of Death
photo credit: mil8 “Before I tell you about it you have to sign this!” is what they all say. The idea will be written out over five pages, usually in the passive voice, with as many adjectives and adverbs as possible. By the time you finish reading the document the concept will be fuzzier than […]
New feature ideas for Stronico
I recently had these thoughts and I’m documenting them for version 2 of the Stronico application. Psychological profiling of contacts. I’m thinking of a simple Type A, Type B snap judgment one can make after first meeting a person. If I can think of working in the Myers-Briggs personality types that would be wonderful, but […]
How to fix binding problems with Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager
The Problem: You are trying to create a new website programatically via the Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager and having no luck. In fact, you are getting invalid binding errors at every turn.
How to fix the Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll problem
The Problem: While coding away on the Stronico signup process I came across a problem with creating a reference to the Microsoft.Web.Administration dll, namely it was not present as a reference. No problem, I added the dll manually via Visual Studio (it is in the %WinDir%System32InetSrv directory), yet once that was done I could not […]
Garden of Eden Fallacy
From the upcoming e-book, Flying Car Syndrome You may come across the view from clients that “Facebook is just like living in a small town”, or Twitter is “like overhearing people in a crowded subway car”. These people are suffering from the Garden of Eden fallacy; which is thinking that some new technology is recreating […]
New server ordered
The path to beta proceeds, inexorably to completion. We should hit our upcoming beta launch date. We have a shiny new server being configured in the data center even as we speak. This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been […]