We'll be using this blog to publish various informal articles, tips and news items. Hopefully they will prove helpful to some people.
DB Blast from the (inefficient) past
Goodbye Microsoft Access, Hello MySQL
by celerity design on March 13, 2008
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Rotate AVI videos taken from a camera or phone
A common problem when using compact cameras or phones is that the person shooting the video rotates the camera to shoot in "portrait" mode. Unfortunately this means that when played back on a PC or DVD player, the video is shown on its side. [...]
by celerity design on February 20, 2008
To sitemap or not to sitemap?
Should a website have a sitemap? The usual advice is that if you have enough pages to merit it, then "yes". I'm not so sure though...
by celerity design on February 14, 2008
Nintendo is missing a trick with Wii "Mii"'s
The Nintendo Wii is a fantastically conceived bit of kit [...] However, I can't help but feel they haven't exploited the viral marketing potential of their "Mii" characters...
by celerity design on February 07, 2008
Windows explorer loading slowly and other issues
My main Windows XP PC has started exhibiting various signs of slow down, affecting Explorer, Thunderbird and Word...
by celerity design on January 24, 2008
Breakpoints stopped working in VS2005
I've just rejoined a C# project and my breakpoints stopped working in Visual Studio 2005. Needless to say, this was hugely annoying.
It seems this is quite common though, Googling provided the following solutions...
by celerity design on January 23, 2008
Firefox scrolling problem
Recently my laptop started exhibiting an annoying problem in Firefox, namely that the page up and page down keys stopped working, and the cursor up/down arrows performed like home/end instead of scrolling...
by celerity design on December 19, 2007
Installing EPiServer on WinXP
EPiServer CMS is generally deployed on a Windows Server family OS, but developers such as myself often find it more convenient to run on XP.
by celerity design on May 30, 2007