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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

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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

So first I want to say this has driven me crazy for days on end (an hour here, an hour there. If you're here, you already have discovered that you can no longer (simply) drag and drop dll files into C:\windows\assembly and have them installed auto-magically into the windows Global Assembly Cache. Also sadly, you may have discovered that you can't deploy dll files into the GAC from a ClickOnce application (understandably why, but still annoying). There are ...

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IIS7 FTP 530 Home Directory Inaccessible SOLVED!

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

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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

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DNN Live Chat

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

So the age old question... buy it or build it? Recently I was helping a client with their new ERP that my team and I developed for them. Part of the ERP is public facing and we wanted to integrate a Live Chat feature to help the client's customers transition through the changes. I was very surprised to find a real lack of quality Live Chat services out there that fell into a happy medium between Good Features and Free. So after toiling around with a few canned soluti...

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"We Are Already Cyborgs"

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

Crazy.. "If human history is the story of a creature who molts from ape to angel - or as Nietzsche claimed, from beast to Superman - then somewhere along the way it seems that we must become machines." -Erik Davis. If you don't follow "Shots of Awe" it's some pretty thought arousing rapid fire philosophy that's kind of fun! ...

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Keywords, SEO, and Internet Ads

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

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Placebo Buttons -- they are everywhere!

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

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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

What's all the buzz about? One of the new buzz words now for sometime has been Responsive Web Design. What does it mean? What does it mean for my business? First a little back story. Previous to the concept of Responsive Web Design, if you wanted to have a mobile version of your site you had to choose from a couple options. Native Mobile App - <...

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Oh Silly Hyphen - Prevent Line Break on Hyphen

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

Here's a cool thing I learned today. I had an issue where a customer's webpage contained a word that required a hyphen to be grammatically correct: pre-plated. The word pre-plated appeared at the end of a line in a set width column. Internet Explorer would render the word on two lines instead of one. This would also happen when zoom levels other than 100% were set in other browsers and/or when the responsive design would kick in. In other words,...

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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

A client yesterday had a common problem, "Ted I have 100+ Excel documents that I need to be able to quickly search through, and I'd like to combine all those work books into a single .xlsx file so that I can just search in one document." Sounds simple enough right? The first thing we tried together was scouring the web for a VBA script to do this. Seems simple, get a list of the files in a directory, open each doc, and copy and paste its contents into the m...

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Stupid chain letter spam

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

Infrequently I love getting chain letter spam, so that I can read through it, pick it apart, and then reply to the 100+ people that I was not BCC'd with. Note the use of "infrequently". It's bad enough to get spam, but to get it directly from family members? Plus the fact that my email address is then shared with 100 other friendly spammers because even after repeated attempts to explain the BCC feature, it doesn't get used. Sigh.... I thought I'd share...

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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

So, the Mayan's 'predicted' the end of the world? Seems strange that they would do such a thing. I guess every civilization has thought of their beginning and their demise. As advanced as the Mayans were, their mathematics didn't take leap year into account. The actual number of days in a year is 365.2425, not 365. This is because a day is not precisely 24 hours. Now, since the Mayan's didn't take this into consideration, they had a roundi...

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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

How do you monetize your online presence? If you are 'in business', I would think you are probably in the business of making money. Are you running an eCommerce site? Are you advertising to your visitors? Are you selling a service, subscription, or knowledge? In the late 90's, it seemed like everyone was getting into the online game. Giant ideas came and went. Some things have changed, but undeniably some very simple, non-technological principals still a...

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Busy Beavers & Domain Registrations

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

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