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I ran into some interesting issues with Visual Studio and figured in order to quash this bug I should make sure that all my plugins/extensions were all up to date. In doing so, I discovered that I was missing VS2013 Update 3. How could that happen? Well, I clicked the button to update and it …

Having to move data from Drupal 7 to WordPress 3.x is not as easy as I had hoped it would be. Initially found a plugin that didn’t work. Then found a project on GitHub but it was for Drupal 5 or Drupal 6 (not sure really) but the jump to 7 comes with enough schema …

While many have been saying for YEARS (and of course not every one listens) but Google does still read and consider certain META tags in the header of a site, in fact, many of them are still quite useful. Here is Matt Cutts describing the META tags that Google Understands. You can find the full …

What is Google Apps? Google Apps is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps teams communicate, collaborate and get things done from anywhere and on any device.

While moving over to Visual Studio 2013 recently, I discovered some very sad news... Dispatch, a plugin for Visual Studio that offers enhanced FTP support for Visual Studio has gone offline. Hopefully someone will chime in with suggestions, solutions or an update on this great piece of software.

Been tasked with managing a Google Apps account for your company only to find that you are being asked to do many things on behalf of your user? Something that would require that you login as the user to make the changes? Well, consider this a problem of the past. I’ve just recently discovered a …

Like many others (as evidenced by the various posts and searches on this topic), I do this infrequently enough that it has come up and bit me in the a** too many times so hopefully by memorializing my idiocy in blog post form, I will NOT forget this lesson I learned when managing FTP users …

For those of us who live in our Gmail inbox (inside of Google Apps of course) and who have done so for years know that it can be difficult to find a specific email that occurred within a specific time period; especially if it is a commonly occurring word. My frustration at having to page …

Have you ever used Powershell? Well, neither have I. Until recently I’d been happily scripting my server maintenance routines in batch files (I know, I know) but figured when one of our dev servers turned out to need to be a Windows Server 2012, I found that my tried and true batch files would need …

Recently, the Google Operating System posted instructions on how to Add Google+ Comments to Any Website. Well, I tried it right off the bat on a WodPress site will no luck. Took some hacking around but I finally found a good way to make this work in a WordPress theme where it was OUTSIDE the …