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How to Get Your Business On Google

Your first step, before you spend any money on SEO or Local SEO should be to learn the basics of Google My Business and get your listing into Google’s index. Next, once you are listed, you should ensure that your website is properly SEO’d for a local business (topic for a future post) Lastly, you might …

IIS, AWS ELB and SSL - Why can't we all just get along?

Recently found myself in the position of having to set up an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) in front of our EC2 instance that is running Windows Server 2012R2. This means the server is running IIS v8.5. Normally this would not be a problem except that we wanted to run SSL on the load balanced …

First OS Contribution Goes Live

My first contribution to someone else’s open source project has been accepted and gone live! To be fair, it was my first attempt at contributing and I can assure you it won’t be my last. The project is the WordPress plugin List Category Post. We found ourselves using this a lot on client sites but …

URL Checking and SSL Versions

Using Asp.Net to check if a URL is correct and actually exists? Getting false negatives on some SSL connections? Then this might help.

Windows 10 Stumbling Blocks

Here are a list of stumbling blocks that this developer encountered when upgrading to Windows 10 from 8.1. Chrome and IIS both fell down and needed help.

Using Log Parser To Query IIS Log Files

Got a lot of log files or other structured data that you need to parse and look for answers in? Then Log Parser from Microsoft is just the tool for you. Gives you SQL-like syntax for querying one or multiple files at once.

Create Google Calendar Entry With a Link

Do your clients complain about importing .ics events into their Google Calendars? Try using a simple link instead and they will love you forever!