Over the last 3 years I've been working as a senior .net contractor which has meant that I haven't been blogging as much as I'd have liked. To try and fix this and to encourage myself to blog more I'm going to...
I recently moved my blog over to Orchard from BlogEngine.net. Setting up Orchard wasn't too hard but it was time consuming to ensure my data was in the correct format for Orchard to use. There are a couple of tools you can use to help speed up...
I finally got some time together to do a bit of an online spring clean and updated my personal website RichardReddy.ie to give it a more modern look. This new site is mobile friendly and built using Bootstrap and .Net and hosted on Azure. Rather than using loads of...
I recently decided to upgrade my Microsoft Office from 2013 to the newly released 2016 version. The update itself was quite painless and once installed everything continued to work as before, with one exception. I noticed that for some reason Outlook was not sending any of my emails. Initially I...
I had an issue the other day where a new Windows Server 2012 installation was not running my older ASP.NET 3.5 web sites. Everytime I would try to navigate to a .net 3.5 website I would see a '404: page not found' error message. If...
Most people know about turning on compression in IIS. In recent versions of IIS it's been a simple case of ticking a checkbox to turn it on. I noticed the other day that svg files on one of my sites were not being compressed by default. If you...
Usually when I'm coding I'm using the latest and greatest tech but sometimes I have a need to use a specific version of a plugin or framework for backward compatability with a Visual Studio project. I ran into an issue the other day where I needed...
I've been toying with the idea of setting up a business for a few years. I was always put off by the complexities of setting up a business in Ireland - registering business names, doing my own accounts, submitting tax returns, vat payments, PRSI, pensions, start up costs....
I was recently working on updated an older asp.net 3.5 website to asp.net 4.0. Unfortunately we can't upgrade to 4.5 due to the risk of breaking other sites on the same server. Our reason for the upgrade was really to take advantage of...