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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

Hi all, A Very Happy Holidays to everyone out there! It's been a very exciting and busy year helping clients with unique needs and solutions. I'm looking forward to what 2017 will bring! I recently was tasked by a client to come up with a simple (as elegant as possible), and inexpensive Log Shipping solution for Microsoft SQL Server Express. Yes, I know SQL Server Express doesn't have Log Shipping, and the solution would just be to purchase a ...

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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 ...

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Project Time Tracking - The Best Solution

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

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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

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

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Graphics Goodness - Fluid Dynamics Rendering

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

PhysXInfo seems to have solved a challenging tasks, making computer generated water look like water. Now, I'm not talking about fluid rendering with the horsepower like ILM uses for movies like The Perfect Storm, but instead using a commercial available desktop to render out the magic in real-time. Think video game, instead of pre-rendered movie special effects. Rendering water is particularly tricky bec...

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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

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

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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

It's been a while since my last blog entry -- life has been extraordinarily busy with IT and web development projects, some family transitions, and planning for my upcoming wedding to the girl of my dreams! Have you ever run into a client, or guilty yourself, of purchasing tons of extra domain names for a single business? Even ones that aren't related to the business name, but end up pointing to the same website? <...

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