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Windows 2008 R2 / IIS 7.5 & Problematic PDF Downloads

IIS 7.5 (Windows Server 2008 R2) has a known bug while streaming PDF documents to client browsers. Random PDF documents simply don’t work! The bug is with the byte range request browsers send while streaming PDFs. Microsoft still haven’t wrapped this hotfix within any Windows updates or service packs.

June 9th, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: , , ,   |  Posted in Web Development, Web Platforms  |  No Comments »
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How to stop Skype Toolbar from changing numbers to ‘Skype Buttons’ & ruining your website design [UPDATE]

Following on from my last post with my crude ‘Skype Killer’ javascript, I have updated the script to now support removing the buttons from within Google Chrome & FireFox.
This has again only been tested with the most recent versions of the browsers & toolbars, should be backwards compatible.
I have put a demonstration of the script [...]

April 7th, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: , , ,   |  Posted in Web Development  |  1 Comment »
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How to stop Skype Toolbar from changing numbers to ‘Skype Buttons’ & ruining your website design

SkypeKiller has been updated to support FireFox & Chrome, click here to goto the new post >>
One of the most annoying features of the Skype toolbar is its intrusive ‘button’ injection that hijacks your website, changing phone numbers for buttons and ruining your web sites design. I’ve just installed Skype and it installed the toolbar on [...]

February 17th, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: ,   |  Posted in Web Development  |  1 Comment »
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How to run IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Opera & any other browsers side-by-side

(Courtesy of Donavon West – donavon.com)
I have been playing about with the new XP mode feature in Windows 7 Ultimate for a while now and for a developer like myself it has proven to be a god send.
I was asked yesterday by a colleague whether you could set it up to run IE6, 7, 8 & various [...]

January 23rd, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: , , ,   |  Posted in Web Development  |  No Comments »
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