Using a class provided by Chris on stackoverlow, I finally found a quick and dirty way to download data to a CSV file locally. By adding the attached class file, I was able to easily add a button to a report page, that when pressed, will load the each line of the CsvExport object into a byte[] suitable for quick and dirty downloads. [More]

Have you run into this problem? In Quickbooks Point of Sale v10 (or in various versions of Quickbook proper it appears) you might change over to the Shipping Manager and when you try and print you get the following error: Printer Not found: ::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\::{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}\HP Laser Check out the post for the quickest solution to this problem. [More]

If you are running an ecommerce store that relies on real-time rate lookups from the U.S. Postal Service then hopefully you are already aware of this looming deadline (March 31, 2012) and have made arrangements to prevent this from crippling your business. If you are running AspDotNetStorefront (our favorite ecommerce package) AND you rely on USPS as one of your Real Time Shipping lookups, you will need to know that you need to be running v8.0.1.4 or v9.1.1.0 of this fabulous package in order to be safe from this problem. You’ll be able to confirm the version of your website by looking the left column of the admin control panel: If you are running a store that is v8.0.1.2 or earlier, or if you are running a version that is between v9.0.0.0 and v9.0.1.3 you will need to either contact ASPDNSF about upgrading, talk to your developer about what can be done to patch the problem on your site OR switch to using UPS, FEDEX or some other carrier for your Real Time lookup needs.

Or perhaps it was just a rogue programmer? Either way, this was my laugh to start a crappy Monday off on a better foot:

Integrating rel="author" and rel="me" into blog pages on WordPress can be very simple, if you know all the steps. The article by Joost de Valk takes you most of the way there but I'm going to offer up some additional tidbits to "close the circle" so to speak. [More]

For merchants running AspDotNetStorefront who aren’t regularly running the Monthly Maintenance routines, you might find yourself in a situation similar to one of our clients where the size of the transaction log for their SQL database had grown large enough that their site was shut down because it couldn’t grow any more. In this case, since we couldn’t access the admin section of the site to run the monthly maintenance, I was able to run the following commands in order to clear the transaction log to the point of the last backup AND then shrink the physical size of the SQL database files. [More]

Granting Google AdWords professionals access to your Google AdWords account in order to assist you in managing your campaigns is a fairly simple procedure, if you do it right. Protect yourself and learn how to do it at the same time using the instructions in the form below. [More]

Google has finally allowed Google Apps customers to take advantage of Google+ . Here are some quick tips on how to get this up and running in your Google Apps account AND get your users signed up! [More]

I’m sure you’ve been there before. You (or your customer) have gone in and added all your products and defined which products go with which stores but then decided after the fact that you want to have a manufacturer’s page (or menu) that shows all the manufacturers of products that exist in a give store on your Multi-Store solution. Read on to find the SQL command to make this a painless problem... [More]

Has putting YouTube videos on your website embarrassed you by being so bold as to insist on being in front of other elements on your website? This is a common problem seen across the Internet daily. However, just ‘cause main people suffer from this ailment doesn’t mean that you have to. The resolution to this problem doesn’t rely on setting Z-Index or anything fancy, just making some small changes to the original code provided by YouTube to embed the video. [More]