If you’re running YOURLS on an IIS 7 box you’ll need the correct settings in your web.config to perform the URL Rewriting. An example web.config with the correct settings is below.
Run YOURLS on IIS 7
By Howard | Published August 23rd, 2010RegExCatchAll Transport Agent for Exchange 2007/2010
By Howard | Published May 29th, 2010How moving email services to an Exchange Server revealed email suffix matching as a missing feature, and how to implement that feature using a Transport Agent.
IIS7 web.config fun
By Howard | Published March 8th, 2010I spent some time last weekend migrating the Work Avoidance site away from Gradwell and onto a dedicated virtual server from MEMSET. Since this involved a move to a Windows box away from UNIX hosting, I had to configure in IIS7 some of the settings I had in the .htaccess under the UNIX host.
Bad Bell Wire!
By Howard | Published March 10th, 2009It’s one of those “why didn’t I think of that before?!” moments. BT are selling a device called the iPlate at the moment claiming that for 7 out of 10 people it will increase their DSL speed by filtering out the noise from the bell wire in your master socket. By all accounts it does…
Three Handy Sites
By Howard | Published July 16th, 2008Three handy sites for people who need to manage the volume of email coming in.
Don’t want to be included on the latest “funny” forward, let your correspondent down gently with www.thanksno.com.
Or do you have a contact who doesn’t know how to use BCC and reveals your email address to everybody else they’re sending the message…
Bandwidth Graphs
By Howard | Published July 11th, 2008I’m a metrics geek, I can’t help it. Once again I have to sing the praises of Zen’s Office 8000 Max ADSL service. When they say unlimited they really mean it, and since I’m only about 350m from the Exchange, I actually get the full 8Mb.
Check out the graph (click for bigness) which shows my…
Broadband Usage
By Howard | Published December 2nd, 2007I was reminded today that my ISP (Zen) provide a portal where their users can check out their broadband usage. I’m on an unlimited plan (Zen Office 8000 Max) so don’t need to worry about it month to month, but I thought the stats were interesting:
Fontifier fun.
By Howard | Published October 12th, 2006I came across the Fontifier site the other day, for 9 USD they’ll make you a TTF (True Type Font) file of your own handwriting. It’s a painless process: print the template, draw your scrappy handwriting into the boxes, then scan and upload it to them. I’ve done mine, and it’s quite fun…
IE7 Beta 2 brickbats and bouquets…
By Howard | Published April 28th, 2006The public beta of Internet Explorer 7 has been out for a while now, and like the good Microsoft soldier I am, I installed it this week. It’s very nice. If you’ve only ever used IE it’ll be full of neat new toys that you’ve never seen before. If you’ve been using Firefox or Safari,…
Philosophy majors shouldn't write technology editorials
By Howard | Published April 19th, 2006Richard sent me an email yesterday with a link to this article along with the message “You’ll love this one…” If you’ve followed the Windows on Mac saga recently go and read it now, if you’re anything like me and Richard you’ll have plenty to say on the subject once you’ve finished reading.
I couldn’t believe…
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