Michael S. Clark

The online tee-time booking system that I developed at Computa Services for the Carnoustie Golf Links, is now live.
It uses concurrent AJAX, calling a lightweight PHP+XML web service layer to communicate with a Microsoft SQL Server.
The management application that the staff at the Links use to administer the bookings is written in C#, using C# [...]

I’ve been playing about with a multi-threaded download manager for RapidShare in C# for a while now and I was looking around for better version control than a Windows Briefcase directory.
Since this is a personal project, I didn’t want to use our SVN code repository at Computa, so I had a look at Google [...]

I recently came upon a situation where a client’s website was hosted by their ISP. They wanted it to be updated, so as always, I looked at using WordPress.
Unfortunately, the hosting package they had chosen supported PHP, but database support was beyond their price range.
That set me wondering if WordPress actually required MySQL to operate. [...]

Under usual circumstances, hosting WordPress on IIS7 would not normally allow permalinks to be used. There are some commercial solutions, including the ISAPI_Rewrite module (which I couldn’t get to work).
Another less elegant solution was to create a replacement 404 error page that would perform the redirection. This worked, but when the redirection occurred, any POSTed [...]

As I type this Mozilla, the company behind the groovy Firefox browser, has just created a new world software download record of over 5 million downloads in less than 24 hours.
You can get your 7MB download here and track the download progress here.
I got a certificate too! (You can get yours here.)
[Via: Gizmodo]
Update:
It’s official: The [...]