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Today sees the launch of my company web site Rolosoft.com.

Its reason for “being” is to provide software and services that I have developed over the years.

Currently, there are 3 products available all geared towards solving common issues that companies face when developing ASP.Net web sites or applications:

• GEO IP.Net easily solves the problem of how to identify an IP location by country. The nice thing is that it works to automatically set native ASP.Net page properties Culture and UICulture. Data updates can be automated too with the “Premier” edition.
• Cookie Secure.Net encrypts cookies and protects the data inside from tampering.
• IP from HTTP.Net accurately gets an IP address from a client web browser.

There will be further product announcements shortly.

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Rowland :: Sep.23.2008 :: Development, Software and Internet, Blogroll :: No Comments »

My latest acquisition is Credit Card Exclusive.com. The site compares & lists US based credit cards.

I bought the site pretty much as a “Punt” in getting into the very competitive arena of credit card websites.

So far, there’s a lot of tidying up of the site to make it more Search Engine and user friendly. A lot more work is needed to get traffic up to anywhere near respectable levels. Worth a gamble though:).

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Rowland :: Mar.25.2008 :: Development, Blogroll :: No Comments »

Today, I received an email from a marketing agency enquiring about advertising opportunities on my website. The confusing thing was that the website domain mentioned in the email isn’t owned by me!

On further investigation (by typing the “mystery” url into a browser) and to my utter amazement, up comes my own website content! It appears that some idiot has set their domain DNS records to point to my website! The “mystery” domain in question sounds very asian smut orientated. Here is what I found by digging further:-

• The “mystery” domain has only been registered recently.
• It has already acquired the same Google Page Ranking (PR) as my own website with a 7 year old domain name!

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IIS search engine optimisation

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Rowland :: Dec.19.2007 :: Development, Software and Internet :: No Comments »

After much messing around, I was still unable to get phpmailer to work on IIS6 (Windows 2003). I am using PHP v5.x for windows.

From investigation it seems that IIS SMTP service has a problem with phpmailer. The error message from PHP is:-

“Language string failed to load: instantiate”
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IIS SMTP phpmailer smtp service

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Rowland :: Sep.25.2007 :: PHP :: No Comments »