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Be Fire Ready, If You’re In a Bushfire Prone Area

Introduction – Who Should Be Fire Ready?
This article is a little odd for my blog perhaps, but there’s a reason. Actually there’s a couple of reasons.
I went through the Victorian bushfire last year, the worst natural disaster in Australian history where 173 people died and thousands were displaced from their homes. Many of those still [...]

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CS-Cart, A Very Excellent E-Commerce Engine

I’ve been in the Web Development Business now for more years than I care to remember. In that time I’ve worked with plenty of E-Commerce engines, some of which were entirely bespoke before ‘off the shelf’ solutions such as osCommerce or Magento existed.
In more recent years I’ve been using osCommerce. I took a look at [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Just Rely On Subversion For ‘Backups’

If you’re developing a software solution, whether it’s for yourself or for a larger project, there’s plenty of source control products out there from CVS, Subversion or more modern solutions like git and Mercurial that distribute the load. Regardless of whichever you might be using, if you’re just developing personal projects, you’re probably using the [...]

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MacBook Pro Performance running Parallels

Or VirtualBox, and probably VMWare too.
Its been some months now since I made the switch from PC to Mac, using OSX Snow Leopard. Initially I was really pleased with the performance of the MBP, it was considerably quicker on lesser hardware than Vista had ever been. But there was a niggling slowdown on occasions.
It’s fair [...]

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Telstra iPhone Tethering ‘Call Telstra on 125 111 to enable tethering’

If you’re an iPhone user on Telstra’s NextG network you may have been disappointed when iPhone tethering suddenly stopped working back in July or sometime there about, when a new set of ‘Carrier Settings’ were downloaded from iTunes onto your iPhone. The good news is that this weekend just gone, Telstra issued a new set [...]

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