Freelancers Forum Messages on Wednesday February 15th 2006
FN-FORUM: Removal Companies
date posted 15th February 2006 23:46
Any recommendations / horror stories for removal companies. Oxford /=20
Newbury / Reading area
Cheers
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FN-FORUM: Online Ticket handling
date posted 15th February 2006 23:44
Hi Folks,
Anyone able to recommend an open source ticket handling system for a =
help
desk?
I would prefer something in PHP if possible. And something that=92s =
pretty
easy to customize although th...
RE: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 23:40
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> drFT = cmdFT.ExecuteReader
> If drFT.Read Then
> If drFT("Maximum") Is System.DBNull.Value Then
> Return 0
> End If
> Return drFT("Maximum")
> End If
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 23:15
Hahaha - is that because I said you know .net? I thought you did? Must be a
different Andy if you don't. I was thinking the same as you while I was out
Line dancing that perhaps doing it the other w...
RE: FN-FORUM: uk2.net hell
date posted 15th February 2006 23:02
Well this from marketsafe;
Company Number 03550739 Company Name UK-2 LIMITED=20
=20
Incorporation Date 22-04-1998 SIC Code 7210=20
Telephone Number Web Address =20
Address 29TH FLOOR ONE CANADA SQUA...
Re: FN-FORUM: uk2.net hell
date posted 15th February 2006 23:01
FWIW I use www.host-it.co.uk for .NET hosting (quite cost effective). They
can be really helpful and may be able to assist if you're moving. May be
worth making a contact.
HTH
Mike A.
Anthony Cartm...
FN-FORUM: Ideas for 3col Blog site design
date posted 15th February 2006 22:48
I've to make a website for a well known journalist but am banging my head
against the wall when it comes to a suitable design.
Based on Wordpress blog with top header, 3 column layout the site will c...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS Nightmares with IE (again) Please Help, this is driving me mad!
date posted 15th February 2006 22:36
Thanks Tony. Think I've sorted it now, set the width on the menu as
you suggested, thats all it needed, but couldn't put a width on
as that has to stretch to fit. Added a couple of
wrappers and float...
RE: FN-FORUM: uk2.net hell
date posted 15th February 2006 22:32
I've had a few dealings with UK2 ... they're one of the companies that
charge a fee for 'transferring out' a domain (=A312.99 + VAT on the last
invoice I can find in the files). Information about the...
Re: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 21:31
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 21:29, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> What version of Access are you using ? I thought there were stored
> procedure "lite" versions in Access 2003 (although that could...
Re: FN-FORUM: uk2.net hell
date posted 15th February 2006 21:26
Cy,
> I wonder if any of you have had experience with uk2.net or not?
Aha, yes, I used to have a Cobalt RaQ3 with them some time ago (those were
the days!).
> Actually, I cant find any way to con...
RE: FN-FORUM: uk2.net hell
date posted 15th February 2006 21:08
They have online contact forms, you could try contacting them through that.
If that gets no response try directory enquiries to retrieve their phone
number. Do a Whois search on your client's domain a...
RE: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 20:48
Hahaha
If you were using a SQL server DB then you'd put both bits into a stored
procedure and just have it run both within the same transaction in the
SP rather than trying to run a transaction using...
Re: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 19:52
Hopefully Andy knows as he knows .NET
Pam
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Re: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 19:47
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 20:22, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> hmm - I see what you mean. So how can I make sure that two people can
> update and then get the value without them possibly ending up with...
FN-FORUM: uk2.net hell
date posted 15th February 2006 19:44
Hi all.
I wonder if any of you have had experience with uk2.net or not?
I have a client whose site has been hosted with them, and his domain is
still with them. It is a .com
I moved his site over to...
Re: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 19:42
hmm - I see what you mean. So how can I make sure that two people can update
and then get the value without them possibly ending up with the same value -
Pam
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Re: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 19:40
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> No there aren't any other database applications open on on the
> machine it fails one. The database is an Access one and is on the
> same server as the site. I am trying to st...
RE: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 19:31
IF it's access it could be "page locking", i.e., the record is split
over 2 pages of data within the database so it's locking the record even
though it's not the actual record that you're looking at.=...
Re: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 18:57
It does'nt matter which way round I do it. Which ever PC I do it one first
locks out the other - Pam
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Re: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 18:48
No there aren't any other database applications open on on the machine it
fails one. The database is an Access one and is on the same server as the
site. I am trying to stop someone from updating th...
Re: FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 18:40
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>I am stuck. Can anyone spot what is wrong please.
>
>
>
Do you have any other database applications open on the machine it fails
on that could be locking the database? Ar...
FN-FORUM: .net question
date posted 15th February 2006 18:31
I am stuck. Can anyone spot what is wrong please.
This works ok on one of PC's but when I try it on my other PC I get "could
not
update currently locked."
This is my code
Thanks
Pam
Di...
RE: FN-FORUM: help...
date posted 15th February 2006 17:36
Down from France
Mike=20
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Darren Foster
> Sent: 15 February 2006 18:55
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subjec...
Re: FN-FORUM: help...
date posted 15th February 2006 17:31
The DNS changes sometime take time to propagate. It could be that.
The ping gives: 83.138.56.144
Is that right ?
-cheers.
On 15 Feb 2006 18:02:24 -0000, Ben Moxon [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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>
>
> D...
Re: FN-FORUM: help...
date posted 15th February 2006 17:28
Darren Foster wrote:
> Hi Peeps,
>
> Can you please tell me if you can access www.ecademy.com at the moment as I
> don’t seem to be able to access any of its pages.
>
> Is the site down or is it som...
Re: FN-FORUM: help...
date posted 15th February 2006 17:26
Can't get it to load either..
>>=20
>> Hi Peeps,
>>=20
>> Can you please tell me if you can access www.ecademy.com at the
>> moment as I
>> don=B9t seem to be able to access any of its pages.
>>=20
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: help...
date posted 15th February 2006 17:24
Nope. Cant access it. The ping doesnt reply either.
FYI, I am accessing it from within UK.
-cheers.
On 15 Feb 2006 17:55:21 -0000, Darren Foster [EMAIL REMOVED] w=
rote:
>
> Hi Peeps,
>
> Can you p...
Re: FN-FORUM: help...
date posted 15th February 2006 17:21
Darren Foster wrote:
>Can you please tell me if you can access www.ecademy.com at the moment as I
>don’t seem to be able to access any of its pages.
>
>
>
Looks like it's down. I can't see it a...
Re: FN-FORUM: help...
date posted 15th February 2006 17:20
no luck
Richard Quick
http://www.richardquickdesign.com
On 15 Feb 2006, at 17:55, Darren Foster wrote:
>
> Hi Peeps,
>
> Can you please tell me if you can access www.ecademy.com at the =20
> mome...
FN-FORUM: help...
date posted 15th February 2006 17:15
Hi Peeps,
Can you please tell me if you can access www.ecademy.com at the moment =
as I
don=92t seem to be able to access any of its pages.
Is the site down or is it something to do with my ISP as i...
RE: SPAM-LOW: Re: FN-FORUM: Recruitment
date posted 15th February 2006 15:06
I am looking for contract positions for myself. I write in C#
James
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Kilcoyne
Sent: 15 February 2006 15:33
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RE: SPAM-LOW: Re: FN-FORUM: Recruitment
date posted 15th February 2006 14:52
Hi James,
Are you looking for freelancers or permanents?
What disciplines? Anything that contributes to your business or just areas
you have shortfalls?
Brian Kilcoyne
[EMAIL REMOVED]
> -----Origi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Recruitment
date posted 15th February 2006 14:43
--- Paul Silver [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> On 14 Feb 2006 20:55:18 -0000, "James Cook" said:
> > Any other suggestions to FREE and good recruitment
> site for bods in the
> > Creative Industry?
>...
Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: FN-FORUM: Recruitment
date posted 15th February 2006 14:29
I am just looking for good people and avoid using recruitment agencies!
I love the web!
Regards,
James
James Cook
Director of Creativity
Adline 'Top 100 Agency' 2005
Adline 'Top 100 Agency' 2006...
RE: SPAM-LOW: Re: FN-FORUM: Recruitment
date posted 15th February 2006 14:18
Hi - I am looking for .net contract work at home positions.
Thanks
James
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Sent: 15 February 2006 14:47
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Re: FN-FORUM: Recruitment
date posted 15th February 2006 14:06
On 14 Feb 2006 20:55:18 -0000, "James Cook" said:
> Any other suggestions to FREE and good recruitment site for bods in the
> Creative Industry?
Just checking: do you want to be an advertiser of a j...
RE: FN-FORUM: "Who's Online Now" - best way to guage and implement
date posted 15th February 2006 13:21
I usually go for 5 mins. It also means you have to log the users usage
through every page (at least that's what I do) I just update a 'last
access' field in the database. It also comes in handy for...
RE: FN-FORUM: Setting up FTP site
date posted 15th February 2006 13:04
Hi Paul
Nothing wrong with taking that approach. The other thing would be to
set up an FTP server on a machine in their office. We've done this for
a design agency which allows their clients to upl...
RE: FN-FORUM: Quick site check
date posted 15th February 2006 12:32
Ciaron wrote:
> That's some .NET thing I think, for some reason it puts a language
> attribute (language="javascript") in my submit button (!?!?!) Any one
> know why that happens?
I can see what yo...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS Nightmares with IE (again) Please Help, this is driving me mad!
date posted 15th February 2006 12:12
On 15 Feb 2006 12:33:43 -0000, Creative Digital Alliance
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> http://www.creativedigitalalliance.co.uk/winter/
>
> Seems ok in every other browser but IE, this is driving me mad....
Re: FN-FORUM: QMail and changing return-path for bounced messages.
date posted 15th February 2006 12:01
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Graeme J Sweeney wrote:
I didn't receive (or haven't yet) Paul Robinson's reply though it's on the
archive and the irony of that for this thread isn't lost on me :-)
http://w...
FN-FORUM: CSS Nightmares with IE (again) Please Help, this is driving me mad!
date posted 15th February 2006 11:53
http://www.creativedigitalalliance.co.uk/winter/
Seems ok in every other browser but IE, this is driving me mad.
The two main problems in IE are:
i.)horizontal menu displays verticaly
ii.)main cont...
FN-FORUM: Setting up FTP site
date posted 15th February 2006 11:13
Hi
An agency I work for has asked about setting up an FTP site.=20
Presumably this is so they can transfer files with their clients. If
anyone is familiar with donhost reseller accounts I guess I co...
Re: FN-FORUM: Drupal Knowledge..... ?
date posted 15th February 2006 11:04
Hi David,
I'm putting together a list of installation steps for regional
branches of a charity I'm connected with - it's a work in progress
only started the other day, and I'm updating as and when....
RE: FN-FORUM: "Who's Online Now" - best way to guage and implement
date posted 15th February 2006 10:59
Dan Winchester wrote:
>
> What timeframe have you found works best?
>
> e.g. 1 min, 5 mins, 20 mins...?
I haven't actually done it, was just making something up... But for a
specific case, it depen...
FN-FORUM: Freelancer Forms
date posted 15th February 2006 10:55
Someone made a posting a couple of days ago about Freelancer forms .... I
couldn't find what I was looking for at the time, but I just did! Someone
on Freelancers posted this link a while back - hope...
RE: FN-FORUM: "Who's Online Now" - best way to guage and implement
date posted 15th February 2006 10:54
> It has the downside that it keeps a session alive if
> the user leaves the browser open on your page (without
> logging out).
Ok, understood.
> Do people always create a session when they visit
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: "Who's Online Now" - best way to guage and implement
date posted 15th February 2006 10:50
> What timeframe have you found works best?
>
> e.g. 1 min, 5 mins, 20 mins...?
Depends on how busy the site is, also depends on your personal
preference. But for "Who's online now" i'd probably have...
Re: FN-FORUM: Quick site check
date posted 15th February 2006 10:44
> The text does not resize in IE (although it does zoom OK). That seems
> an
> odd choice given that FireFox does resize the text and your pages seem
> set
> up for it. There's just one bit that d...
RE: FN-FORUM: URGENT - ASP Developers & Front End (HTML / CSS) De velopers
date posted 15th February 2006 10:43
>>Does it have to be ASP? I can do it in PHP. I don't fancy going down the
>>ASP route again!
Yep. Microsoft all the way for this one I am afraid.
Sorry guys. I should have said in my first messag...
Re: FN-FORUM: "Who's Online Now" - best way to guage and implement
date posted 15th February 2006 10:40
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Dan Winchester wrote:
> Has anyone done this, or worked out how other sites do it?
As with Karl, I've used a heartbeat approach but that was for a gameplay
site. It has the dow...
RE: FN-FORUM: "Who's Online Now" - best way to guage and implement
date posted 15th February 2006 10:33
Tam/Lee/Karl,
What timeframe have you found works best?
e.g. 1 min, 5 mins, 20 mins...?
Thanks for the responses!
Cheers
Dan...
RE: FN-FORUM: URGENT - ASP Developers & Front End (HTML / CSS) Developers
date posted 15th February 2006 10:29
Hi Ben,
Does it have to be ASP? I can do it in PHP. I don't fancy going down the
ASP route again!
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RE: FN-FORUM: "Who's Online Now" - best way to guage and implement
date posted 15th February 2006 10:27
Hi Dan,
That's how I tend to do it.
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RE: FN-FORUM: "Who's Online Now" - best way to guage and implement
date posted 15th February 2006 10:23
Dan Winchester wrote:
> What is the best way to guage whether someone is "online"?
>
> The obvious way is to select people who were active on the
> site within a
> set period of time, e.g. last 5 mi...
Re: FN-FORUM: "Who's Online Now" - best way to guage and implement
date posted 15th February 2006 10:17
> The obvious way is to select people who were active on the site within a
> set period of time, e.g. last 5 minutes.
Hey Dan,
Thats exactly how ive done it in the past, i tried working out if
there...
RE: FN-FORUM: Quick site check
date posted 15th February 2006 10:09
Ciaron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just finished http://www.simcladltd.co.uk/
>
> Have tested in a few Mac browsers but my PC is down at the moment.
> Any comments on the actual design appreciated.
>
> Regar...
FN-FORUM: URGENT - ASP Developers & Front End (HTML / CSS) Developers
date posted 15th February 2006 10:06
Morning all,
I urgently need an ASP Developer with the usual skills (ASP, HTML,
JavaScript, and a bit of dot net preferably) and a strong front end coder
(XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Accessibility, Table...
FN-FORUM: "Who's Online Now" - best way to guage and implement
date posted 15th February 2006 10:03
Hi guys,
I have a dating site.
I would like to show a selection of members who are "Online Now".
Many other dating sites do this.
My question is:
What is the best way to guage whether someone is...
Re: FN-FORUM: Job
date posted 15th February 2006 09:34
At 9:53 am +0000 15/2/06, James Cook wrote:
>Morning Morning.
>
>I am looking for a Business Development Director.
>=A345-50k, Premium Car and Benefits and trimmings.
>
>Does anyone know anyone?
I kn...
FN-FORUM: Job
date posted 15th February 2006 09:13
Morning Morning.
I am looking for a Business Development Director.
=A345-50k, Premium Car and Benefits and trimmings.
Does anyone know anyone?
Regards,
James
James Cook
Director of Creativity
Ad...
RE: FN-FORUM: windows vs linux mod_rewrites
date posted 15th February 2006 09:04
Thanks everybody for providing some interesting advice and pointers. I think
I need to look further into this based on what you have said.
Many thanks.
Andy
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Re: FN-FORUM: Quick site check
date posted 15th February 2006 09:04
On 15 Feb 2006, at 08:57, Richard Quick wrote:
>
> Nice, professional looking site.
>
> I'd change the mouse-over colour to orange to match the logo. It also
> might be an idea to introduce the ora...
Re: FN-FORUM: Quick site check
date posted 15th February 2006 08:17
Nice, professional looking site.
I'd change the mouse-over colour to orange to match the logo. It
also might be an idea to introduce the orange elsewhere (headings,
links) to brighten things up...
FN-FORUM: Quick site check
date posted 15th February 2006 07:43
Hi,
Just finished http://www.simcladltd.co.uk/
Have tested in a few Mac browsers but my PC is down at the moment. Any
comments on the actual design appreciated.
Regards,
Ciaron.
Substudio Ltd
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