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Sage Accounts Software - eliminating one accrued expense
By Peter Davies on August 12th, 2010

Sage Accounts Software – eliminating one accrued expense

Annual company accounts successfully submitted to Companies House and corporation tax liability calculated. That was relatively easy. I decided not to use an accountant this year for my company accounts. I do all of my own book-keeping anyway into Sage Software. And even the ‘Instant Accounts’ edition is powerful enough to generate decent balance-sheet and profit and… read more

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SEO Seminar at RMT by Silverbean
By Peter Davies on July 29th, 2010

SEO Seminar at RMT by Silverbean

I attended the SEO seminar by Silverbean this afternoon… It was at the RMT (the accountants) offices. It was pretty good, and did go into some detail about keyword densities and anchor text. But of course it wasn’t as technical as it might have been (they do have a service to sell). Learn’t some useful stuff about… read more

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Cobbles visible on Eilansgate - Hexham
By Peter Davies on July 23rd, 2010

Cobbles visible on Eilansgate – Hexham

Nice to see. And they don’t look half as rough on the tyres compared to the old patch-ridden surface. It’ll be a shame to cover them up with tarmac again. It looks like the council hasn’t taken the opportunity to widen the woefully narrow footpath though…. And the primary school tries to promote walking to… read more

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Custom Magento Canonical Tags
By Peter Davies on July 13th, 2010

Custom Magento Canonical Tags

I’ve just done some modifications to a magento install which I administer to allow custom canonical tags to be specified in the “Custom Layout Update” field of product items and categories. Magento is notoriously bad for url canonicalisation out of the box, as it generates at least 4 urls for each product, all with almost… read more

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GMail offers per-address rich-text signatures
By Peter Davies on July 13th, 2010

GMail offers per-address rich-text signatures

This has been long awaited and is is a much appreciated addition to the gmail service. If you use GMail check out your settings page. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7881493/Google-adds-rich-text-signatures-to-Gmail.html //

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Magento and Wordpress
By Peter Davies on July 11th, 2010

Magento and WordPress

‘Embedded’ was probably too strong a term for the merging of a blogger blog into the Pro Hair Biosystems magento store site. Aligning the styling is probably a better way of describing it. The export/import process was pretty easy and fixing up the categories/tags switch up just required a simple plugin. It’s probably better for… read more

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WordPress loopy
By Peter Davies on July 06th, 2010

WordPress loopy

I’ve gone completely WordPress (3.0) loopy. I am currently also working on embedding a WordPress blog into a Magento e-commerce site. Getting a dab hand at it, and will post the link when its complete. I’ve decided to keep the database and file hierarchy separate for security reasons. Doing this sacrifices the sophisticated caching mechanism… read more

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Posterous post
By Peter Davies on July 03rd, 2010

Posterous post

So I’m posting this image via posterous. It is going (in theory)  to my blog, to linked-in and to flickr. It is an image of Ella soon after collecting her pink Barbie bike from freecycle. //

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Test from mobile via flickr
By Peter Davies on July 01st, 2010

Test from mobile via flickr

Test from mobile via flickr Originally uploaded by pgdyaya So this is the body text to my post //

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Posting options to WordPress
By Peter Davies on June 27th, 2010

Posting options to WordPress

I’m looking into various options for posting to my wordpress blog. Over the next week or so I’m going to try various systems, including Worpress collecting from a POP email, Flickr, Posterous and any others I can find. Ideally I’d like nice formatting, with optional images, and a system that I can use from my… read more

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Getting Contacts off a Sony Ericsson phone - Python to the rescue
By Peter Davies on June 21st, 2010

Getting Contacts off a Sony Ericsson phone – Python to the rescue

I’m getting a new phone tomorrow and need to bulk-unload my contacts of it. What a palaver. Two options… Upload to the Sony Ericsson site… no thanks. The ‘create account’  dialog put a stop to that ‘Synchronise’ with Outlook Express Contacts… well its a start. Exporting for Outlook Express gives me a few Microsoft specific formats, vCard (individually)… read more

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