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Implementing Web Based Surveys
Web surveys or questionnaires allow collection of information via forms. In this article I look at some of the issues to consider when implementing a web based compliance audit. The primary issues to...
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URL Redirection & Domain Forwarding
URL Redirection and domain forwarding allow redirection of web traffic from one site or page to another. URL Redirection One of the simplest ways to redirect visitors from one URL to another is to set...
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Saving KML Files from Google Maps
Maps create in Google maps can be exported to kml and then viewed in Google Earth. Log into GoogleMaps. Then choose My Maps. Either create a new map or choose an existing map. Then choose View in Googl...
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Mobile Web Browsers and Smartphones
Mobile web browsers and SmartPhones, such as the iPhone, are rapidly gaining in popularity and the question of how to accommodate user accessing the web via Mobile phones and PDAs has become of...
View ArticleListing all Tables within SQLServer
Everything about your SQL Server databases is stored in its system tables (sysobjects, sysindexes) and SQL Server maintains at least one row in sysindexes. The sysobjects.Name column lists the names of...
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How to download embedded flash audio or video
This is a a quick summary of one method that can be used for making off-line copies of embedded web content. This post is based on the excellent YouTube clip of the same name. The basic idea is to:...
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Solahart Service & Anode Replacement
If you own a Solahart hot water system it’s important to change the anode every five years or so. To do this Close the cold water inlet valve. If the solar hot water system is connected to an...
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Productivity, Culture & Technology
Twenty years in the knowledge management industry and I can see a pattern: Productivity is stifled by outdated workflows that have failed to keep up with technology. But what can be done about it? The...
View ArticleThe True Cost of Software
Common wisdom suggest that it will always be better to purchase a piece of software, if it can be found, then to write one from scratch. And it stands to reason. A software vendor can spread...
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Website Legibility and Fonts
“Legibility is concerned with the very fine details of typeface design, and in an operational context this usually means the ability to recognise individual letters or words. Readability however...
View ArticleSome of the tools I can’t live without
Just like a mechanic, every IT professional needs a set of good tools. Below is a list of my favourites: PStart: A ’start’ menu for portable applications running of USB sticks or removable disk. Sits...
View ArticleWinner takes all
Just doing my eTax and finding my way around myGov website, Interesting to note that this includes a digital mailbox for government related communications. Working for Oz Post in early 2000, there was...
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Changing the URL of Portal for ArcGIS Web Mapping Applications
Using Portal for ArcGIS 10.4, some of my Web Mapping Application ended up pointing to the Server rather than the public URL the server should resolve to. This causes two problems: The Web Mapping...
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EPSG 4326 Vs EPSG 3857
Geographic Coordiante System are often identified by an EPSG Number. The two coordiante system most often used in web mapping applications are EPSG:4326 and EPSG:3857. But what’s the difference between...
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Counting Whats Important
“If you can’t count what’s important you make what you can count important“. James Willbanks. I recently heard this quote in episode four of the excellent PBS documentary ‘The Vietnam War’, currently...
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Looking up Values in Zoho Creator
I have a Zoho Creator form, called Issues (Rskrg_Iss), that deals with risk assessment. It has two drop downs: Likelihood (IssLklhood), which estimates the probability of an event occurring and...
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FME EXE has stopped working
An FME data translation routine reading AutoCAD files and writing them to an ESRI Filegeodatabase, suddenly stopped working. This routine previously worked and no changes to the workbench were made....
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Exposing Object IDs in FME GDBS to IEPS Translation
Running an FME translation routine from Esri Filegeodatbase to IEPS, I was getting some weird results. The eps fiele generated was only showing some of the tranlated layers. The FME translation log...
View ArticleSoftware Development Considerations
Everybody want’s an ‘App’. But software development is time-consuming and expensive. So here are some ideas to consider before developing your next ‘App’: Focus on Data: Data is the be-all and end-all....
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Database Systems and the Relational Database Model
Types of Database Models It is possible to broadly distinguish among three generations of architectural database models. Listed in order of increasing sophistication they are the primitive, classic and...
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