This Monday we noticed a sudden drop in traffic from Google.com on AlternativeTo.net. I and my colleague have tried to figure out why all week and finally we found the answer. In the Google Webmaster Blog, there is a post about how Google is deploying its new spam filter (named “Panda”) to all English-speaking markets. And that
I have had lots of issues with upgrading WordPress plugins and the core WordPress engine on my IIS 7.5 server. The problem has been that you try to upgrade the plugin, you get a fail notice AND the plugin is simply disabled and you lose permission to the folder where the plugin was located. Then
There is an awesome feature in Gmail that makes it stand out from many other webmails and it’s that you can specify an external SMTP server so that you can send mail from other e-mails. I understand this is an advanced feature that not so many people use but it has a major flaw. If
This is a classic. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduced a feature that prevents you from changing a table in the designer if it needs to be re-created. And whenever I get this I always forget where to turn this feature off. This time I recorded a 14-sec video that shows where this option is. Enjoy
This was a tricky one. I was just watching Scott Hanselman’s session from MIX 11 “Microsofts Web Stack Of Love” and as always the guys it brilliant. It’s like stand-up mixed with development. Anyway, he talked a bit about MVC Scaffolding and about how awesome it was. I fired up Visual Studio and installed MVCScaffolding
WordPress provides a simple text widget that you can use on your blog to add some random HTML, Ads, images, and so on. But I have one problem and that is that it’s always adding some extra HTML like this. <div class=”widget”> <div class=”textwidget”> </div> </div> Sometimes you do not want this code if you
I have a really weird issue with Internet Explorer 9 and my Visual Studio Color Scheme. Each time I start IE9 some of the colors in my IDE are changed. I have no idea why this is and hopefully, I can find some other person who has the same issue? I suppose it has something
I got this really strange bug where I got a 404 error on all requests I made via Ajax to methods that returned Json via MVC. Turned out that this was caused by RouteDebug that I had laying around in my bin folder. I have got this bug twice now so I just wanted to
All of a sudden all of my RSS feeds stopped working on AlternativeTo. All I got was the name of the type I returned from my MVC methods that should return a “RssResult”. After some Googling, I finally found the answer on Stack Overflow as usual. The problem was that I used version; MVC 2
I have been looking for a plugin like this for ages. I constantly switch between Swedish and English when I work and it’s a pain to always remember to switch the spell check to the correct language. But today I found Dictionary Switcher that automatically sets the spelling language to the locale of the page but also