Techemistry Blog

Daily Tip - Update AddRemoveProgramsIcon (and other properties) in a Visual Studio Installer Project

6/11/2019 8:35:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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ZeroSSL with IIS 10

5/3/2019 5:11:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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MinerGate.com Review - Mixed Emotions

2/3/2018 6:44:00 AM -- Ted Krapf

During the 2017 Q3 Crypto-boom, I finally decided to look into cryptomining.  I understood it at a very high level, but had never gone past understanding it conceptually.  As with any good project, I first started with research.  I wanted to know things such as: Is it worth it? What kind of hardware do I ideally need? What hardware can I get away with to get my feet wet? What coins can be mined, which cannot? What is a...

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Account Breach Monitoring

9/20/2017 3:36:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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DBML Visualizer VERY Slow - solved!

3/29/2017 8:15:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Poor Man's SQL Log Shipping (Kinda)

12/23/2016 9:54:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Excel Column Letter To Number.com

4/8/2016 3:06:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Easy & Powerful Ecommerce Solution

4/5/2016 7:58:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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asp:Menu Flicker on Page_Load - Solved

7/13/2015 1:48:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Offline ClickOnce app with command line parameters

3/9/2015 9:46:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Windows Server 2008 Install DLL into GAC

1/23/2015 8:48:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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IIS7 FTP 530 Home Directory Inaccessible SOLVED!

12/1/2014 10:53:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

So this post is definitely going to fall into the "rants" category of my blogging.   I can't tell you the number of times that I've attempted to setup Microsoft's IIS FTP services.  IIS6, IIS7, IIS7.5.  Now, don't get me wrong, if you want a simple FTP site so you can maybe publish web content or simply have one user account, it's a quick solution without adding any software to your box.  But the second you even start to think about user directory isolation - RUN....

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Project Time Tracking - The Best Solution

4/2/2014 1:50:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

So the other day I set out to look for an app, a widget, a sidebar gadget or a web app that handled Time Keeping for project work.   I was surprised to find that while there are a lot of tools out there, many are lacking, cumbersome, expensive, or just simply way over complicated.  So I decided that I'd just create something for m...

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Transaction Express / TransFirst API & ACH Payment Integration

3/31/2014 3:20:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Dynamic PayPal Buttons without using tags

10/16/2013 3:21:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

A client of mine recently wanted to collect payments on her website for event registration with her PayPal account.  The catch was, Adults were $10 ea, Children (3-12) were $8 ea, and Children (3 & younger) were $5 ea. So I set out on an adventure to figure out how to do this.  Obviously we didn't want to make a PayPal button for every possible combination of registration possible, that would be of been maddening.  Instead, ideally I wanted to build a form on her site using...

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DNN Live Chat

9/6/2013 9:00:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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"We Are Already Cyborgs"

8/15/2013 1:13:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Keywords, SEO, and Internet Ads

8/13/2013 2:42:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

Clients always have great questions about SEO, Keywords, and Internet Marketing.  What are some of the basics, gotchas, and where's a person or business to get started?  There is no magic bullet - sorry.  Like anything, hard work and research will pay off.  Below are some fast tips I recently sent to a client that I thought I'd share.... You always want to avoid what I call Keyword Stuffing.  Google’s spider (called Panda) that cr...

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Placebo Buttons -- they are everywhere!

7/2/2013 8:03:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

I thought this would be interesting to share.  I can't think of any computer or Internet graphical user interface (GUI) buttons that are merely placebos, but I've only been thinking about it for a second here.  Can you think of any? read more]

DNN Custom Modules - Locations, Simple Product Catalog, Form Builder and more

5/20/2013 8:35:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Mobile - Looking Good (and Easy!)

5/9/2013 7:53:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Oh Silly Hyphen - Prevent Line Break on Hyphen

4/29/2013 7:27:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Graphics Goodness - Fluid Dynamics Rendering

4/23/2013 4:25:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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One-Way Trip To Mars -- You can sign up soon

4/16/2013 5:33:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Combine Excel Documents Using C#

3/15/2013 12:47:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Stupid chain letter spam

2/6/2013 3:51:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Facebook, Amazon, and Google going the way of Rome?

1/28/2013 8:18:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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End of the World?

12/18/2012 4:18:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Why Get A New Website

4/23/2012 4:13:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

When customers visit your website does it look like a time capsule?  Was Bill Clinton still in office the last time you updated your site? Customers want to see new content; it's not a question of, it's a demand.  Take Facebook as example, do you know why facebook.com gets over ONE BILLION hours of use daily?  It's because people have, arguably, become addicted to looking -- looking at refreshing content.  What's new with their friends and family?  ...

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Reverse Sale: The Answer?

5/7/2012 4:13:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Busy Beavers & Domain Registrations

8/16/2012 3:57:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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