coder++

A 20 minute crash course reviewing the essentials of computer programming

In the process this week of doing a rediculous amount of devlopment work, part of which is migrating my three sites hosting on windows 2003 server with iis6, to windows server 2008 with iis7….

If you are also wondering why as in my case jMail was not happy on iis 7 win2k8, it seems to be because it’s now using the network service account rather than IUSR, so you need to assign the correct execute permissions to the dll that you need to access….

I’n my case, I just granted execute permisson to C:\Program Files\Dimac\w3JMail\jmail.dll to “everyone”… now that machine happily sends emails using that object…

So you have a few hundred/thousand twitter followers, who are all following lots of people, how do you increase the likelyhood that your tweets will get seen by as many people as possible?

A combination of two free services will help you maximise your twitter exposure, firstly tweriod will carry out an analysis of your last 5000 followers to tell you the times and days when most of them are usually online. When you then sign up for free to buffer your tweets are then temporarily stored “buffered” for times when people are most likely to catch your tweets…

For me it’s 4pm in the week that most of my followers are around, so they can expect a small flurry of tweets to be unleashed around then.

I see Albert, so it seems my eyes are still good after 15 years of computing.

Who do you see?

We are at the end of our massive house renovation process and have the IKEA wardrobes in place but the place looked kind of bare with all the freshly plastered and painted walls. What we needed was something to make our sons bedroom look more interesting and child friendly so bought some Thomas the Tank Engine and In the Night Garden wall stickers.

Also we saw you could get things like a race track that would cover up lots of a wall but cost a fortune in the west London shop we were checking for beds. While on holiday in Eastern Europe though we just bought loads of large stickers and my wife put them up on our return and the house looks great now with colourful circles on our ikea pax wardrobes and nature patterns on the walls, really does look stylish and more interesting than a plain wall.

You can also easily remove these kinds of stickers from the walls when you fancy a change, I found this site based in America that delivers worldwide who seem to have some amazing stickers and are at most half the price that these things are in the UK, I’ll certainly be ordering from them next.

When Theo is a bit older we might be getting some nintendo mario wall stickers like these





These stickers are the pretty much the same as the ones for £80 in London so half price on this website!.