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Google Wave plugin for Firefox

Here’s an interesting plugin for Firefox if you have Google Wave. To date, I’ve been keeping my browser open on Wave in the hope that someone will send me a message, but that’s quite wasteful on resources. Yes, bandwidth is cheap, it’s not like I’m… Read more »

How do you stay protected?

Image via Wikipedia There’s no doubt about it, everyone needs protection and when it comes to computers there are two things you need, an anti-virus and an anti-spyware. I’m using Microsoft Forefront on this computer, as it’s a work one and it comes complete with… Read more »

Keeping the bad guys out

Do you have an antivirus and antispyware package running on your machine? Well, if you don’t, you should really get one, because you’re taking a pretty heavy risk by not staying protected. And nowadays you can find a combined package that does performs both these… Read more »

WordPress 2.8 hits the streets

I woke up this morning to find that WordPress 2.8 has finally be released. It was promised for the 10th June, but as I’m based in Europe, I didn’t get to see it till today. I’ve been running the RC down at WordPressGuru and haven’t… Read more »

A list of top Magento plugins

Image via CrunchBase I’ve been playing with Magento recently putting together a new shopping site for The Ballet Shop and have been pretty impressed with the level of functionality and the stability it offers. Anyway, I’ve got the the point of starting to look at… Read more »

Failure at Microsoft.crm.setup.common.registerasyncserviceAction

What’s in an error message? A timeout by any other name would sound as sweet? Well, not really. My Microsoft Dynamics CRM v4.0 was failing with this error: Failure at Microsoft.crm.setup.common.registerasyncserviceAction And was claiming a timeout failure starting it up. There seem to be a… Read more »

Ordinal issue with msi.dll ?

Here’s a good reminder to everyone to try and keep their software updated. Last week I tried installing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on a virtual machine, just so that our team can have a play with it and kept running into this error: The ordinal… Read more »