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Welcome to Dave-Auld.net
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Written by Dave Auld
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Welcome to the latest incarnation of Dave-Auld.net!
I thought I would try some new open source software for the site, and currently experimenting with Joomla!. To host the community forum, phpBB3 is the current candidate, and this has now been enabled, so the forums are now open! The forum may change again, but don't think this will be for a while, or at least until the Joomla 1.5 native version of Kunena (aka Fireboard) becomes production stable (currently in Alpha testing).
The site continues to be hosted with 1and1, but have switched from purely webhosting, to a virtual server running Win2003, IIS6 Web Server with PHP ISAPI, MySQL database. So far so good, although, it has been a bit of a learning curve, but gives me greater freedom with what can be done on the site.
The site will mainly be used to publish and support my software, but you never know what I might use it for in the future!
For more goings on, photos etc. etc. keep an eye on my Bebo pages.
So for the time being, thanks for visiting.
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To 'B' or not to 'B'............Bing that is. |
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Written by Dave Auld
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Saturday, 20 June 2009 19:22 |
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Bing you ask? Where have you been for the last few weeks, holiday, living under a rock, 'offline'?
Bing is the 'new' search engine from Microsoft, it essentially replace Live.
I typically used to use Google for 99% of my web searches, but after playing with Bing since it went public a couple of weeks ago, i have found myself using it more and more. According to the various stats around the net, Bing has slowly been gaining market share of the internet search quesries. Microsoft will be keen to keep the momentum up and try and gain lost ground against Google and Yahoo who are 1st and 2nd in teh league tables with Microsoft 3rd. If Microsoft overtakes Yahoo, then there investment in Bing will be a whole lot cheaper than buying Yahoo. Time will tell if it is just media hype that brings in Bing searches or if people do start to use it through choice.
So whats my thoughts of Bing;
Search results seem to be relevant to my keywords and not filled with excessive junk.
The video auto preview feature is good
The image results presentation formats are good
Will just have to see where they take it next.
If you haven't had a play with Bing yet, then it is about time you head over there and take it for a spin. |
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Written by Dave Auld
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Saturday, 11 April 2009 20:41 |
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PPSGen - Psuedo PIN System Generator, V1 has been release on 11th April 2009 
See the relevant Menu Links, and best of all it is free and available from the Downloads Section. Enjoy! |
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Written by Dave Auld
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:07 |
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A few months back, I wiped one of my laptops clean and did a fresh install of Windows 7 Beta. It went without a hitch, perfect install.
Everything seems to do what it should, and there are somethings that are just so much faster than Vista. An example of this is deleting multiple nested folders. The PPSGen software I wrote creates folder trees containing thousands of folders and files. If you select the root folder and press delete, Vista would think about it for a while before eventually removing the contents to the recycle bin, Win7Beta on the other hand, press delete and it, well, just disappears, as it should. Now, how couldn't they [Microsoft] have got something so basic and simple right in Vista?
Now, along comes Windows 7 RC (Release Candidate), and not being the one for doing upgrades, wiped the same laptop and did a fresh install. Again, perfect no problems, everything just seems to be where it should, does what it should, if it were a wood stain, it would be Ronseal.
I am not going to do a review, there are plenty professionals that can do that, Paul Thurrott over at WinSupersite is just one example. Go check out Paul's reviews there.
And the countdown to release begins. Looks like Win7 will release to manufacturing in August and be available in the shops (either standalone or on PC's) in October this year. So here is hoping there are no major problems encountered to delay the release, and hope the Microsofts stock price starts to go back up seeing as I have just bought some!
Go visit Microsoft's Windows 7 pages here.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:08 |
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Written by Dave Auld
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If you have found the software provided on the site useful, please make a donation towards the cost of running the site and supporting/developing the software.
The donations will go towards the costs of;
- Virtual Server Hosting
- Bandwidth
- Software Development Tools
It isn't cheap and every little donation is appreciated.
Thanks.
Dave
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Copyright © 2009 Dave-Auld.net. All Rights Reserved.
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Guest Nice work Dave..
Did you develop the site from scratch or did you use a package?
W Thursday, 04 June 2009 11:52
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