http://dotwebs.com/blog Dotwebs stuff and more Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:10:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/ie6-till-2014-do-us-part/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/ie6-till-2014-do-us-part/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:45:41 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1461 Microsoft recently announced on their blog that they will continue to support their now 8-year-old  browser IE6 until 2014. For readers unfamiliar with the reasons why this might be news-worthy,  it is mainly because we web designers have wasted half our lives trying to get our client’s websites to display correctly in this antiquated browser and [...]]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/ie6-till-2014-do-us-part/feed/ 2 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/the-bleeding-edge/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/the-bleeding-edge/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:17:11 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=831 Robot © Jack Ryan When unemployment figures are at an all time high, it is reassuring to read that Microsoft are busy working on virtual replacements capable of multi-tasking for those who still have jobs. Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, during a discussion about why Microsoft continues to invest in research and innovation [...]]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/the-bleeding-edge/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/working-with-accessexcel-nightmare/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/working-with-accessexcel-nightmare/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:15:39 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=802 Have you ever tried to migrate data from MS Access to MySQL? It should be straight-forward enough. Export to Excel, then save as CSV, import to MySQL.  You will probably need to customise the format of some fields such as date or currency. Checking that all the data has slipped nicely into the correct fields takes [...]]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/working-with-accessexcel-nightmare/feed/ 0