How to hire a web company – the new book from Digital Tool Factory
After talking a to many potential, and actual clients lately I have decided to expand my internal checklists stock questions into an e-book called “How To Hire A Web Company”. After reading this book you should get from a search engine result to a successful Client-Vendor relationship much faster, and you will find the […]
How to fix problems with ReSharper LINQ Intellisense
The Problem Resharper’s Intellisense, while generally awesome, does not find navigation properties in Linq statements The Cause: No Idea The Solution Switch back to Visual Studio 2012’s Intellisense, then go to Resharper > Options > Environment > General and make sure that the “Store Caches in the System Temp Folder Close and Reopen Visual Studio […]
How to fix problems with WordPress Front Pages not showing the proper template
The Problem You are using a custom post type as the front page, and for no obvious reason it will not display in the custom template your wrote The Cause The front page always uses the font-page.php template in your theme, and if front-page.php is not present, then it will use the page.php template file. […]
Tips and Tricks for running WordPress on Windows Azure
I recently decided to experiment with Windows Azure, and here are some lessons learned about running WordPress on Windows Azure. I wish I’d known these things before I started. Getting an install of WordPress on Windows Azure is as simple as they say it is. Moving an existing site over to it can be challenging. […]
How to change the number of comments visible in the WordPress Admin
The Problem You have an old, established blog, and you left comment spam protection off (a tragic mistake). I did this recently with one of my personal blogs and in very little time I had 15,000 comments pending in my spam folder. I set about to delete the spam but found that I could […]
Nashville vs Memphis, Silicon Valley vs Anywhere
As always happens at the Atlanta Lean Startup Circle meetings, the after meeting conversation turned to competing with Silicon Valley for talent and money. For some reason I was reminded of a conversation I had with influential harmonica player David Harp in 1998 (that actually was his name, strange coincidence). It was more of […]
How to fix The model backing the context has changed since the database was created error
The Problem You are coding away, and you get the following error The model backing the ‘ctx’ context has changed since the database was created. Consider using Code First Migrations to update the database This is my most frequent error when programming with Entity Framework asp.net .net mvc. I usually only happens when using databases […]
How to fix “type or namespace services does not exist in the namespace system.data” problem
The Problem the cause is that you are using .net 4.0 code in a 4.5 project, to solve, just go to add reference, search type in system.data.services, et al and add them manuallyYou create a new .net framework 4.5 solution in Visual Studio 2012 and you start to use some sample code from the Windows […]
How to fix the “Unable to launch the visual studio development server because port 9452 is in use” error
The Problem You are coding away, Visual Studio locks up for one of it’s many reasons, and reopen your project and run it again. You then get the “Unable to launch the visual studio development server because port 9452 is in use” error The Cause When Visual Studio crashed, the Web Server did not, so […]
When challenging Goliath, do not arm wrestle
I attended another enjoyable meeting of the Atlanta Lean Startup Circle last night. It was a bit of a rambler of a meeting, but it was centered around making Atlanta more like Silicon Valley in terms of technology startups. We wound up defining startups for this purpose as a company that is high risk high […]