Matthew Mombrea

There’s something fishy going on with the way that Google is handling GA4. To me, it’s playing out as a backdoor cash grab, hidden under a thin veil of a free and easy migration from UA. 

.NET Core Data Protection One of the main benefits of building a new .NET project using .NET Core is cross platform deployment, however, IIS will still be a common home for ASP.NET Core web applications. In netcore 2.0 MVC applications, […]

Running Nginx and PHP-FPM is a pretty great setup for the most part. One thing we've struggled with on occasion however are some problems with unclear error messages and non-obvious solutions. One of those instances involved the following generic error […]

Google Volley is awesome. If you're an Android developer and you've done AsyncTask and HttpClient stuff (and there is no avoiding it), prepare for a huge relief once you get up and running with Volley. All of the leg work […]

As an avid internet connoisseur you've likely seen Google's notorious "Danger: Malware Ahead" warning that curbs traffic, kills profit and effectively shuts down a site for Chrome users. So how does it happen? Well, at any given moment, your website is being […]

Sorting values on the server side is usually pretty trivial. There are a lot of tools at your disposal, not the least of which is the data query itself. When it comes to sorting an element on the front end […]

Error handling and feedback for AJAX requests can be a tedious undertaking for JavaScript heavy web applications. Often the AJAX functions are spread out in your code and, if you're like me, you may put off error handling until late […]

While ASP.NET MVC has a powerful routing engine for handling requests, there can be a scenario when you need to process a list of specific URL rewrites in your application. Often this can be due to a new version of […]

I've written previously on how to handle AJAX requests for Internet Explorer but recently we came across a strange issue where the requests were being aborted by IE before the response was finished being delivered. Using Fiddler and Firebug, we […]

Update: March 2013 This method of retrieving timeline data from Twitter is going to be shut down very soon. Please see my follow up article on the death of the Twitter API v1 for more details on why it will […]

There comes a time when your once fast server needs to be replaced with a superior machine. In fact, this time comes fairly often for system administrators these days. Around here, our developers are also our system admins, so time […]

The Google Prediction API is a Google labs project that can aid you in many types of predictive analysis and content recommendation. The nature of the software makes is difficult to explain exactly what it is and how it works. […]

I'm very fortunate to work at a company where both the business and marketing teams have a solid grasp on how databases work. They may not know the technical specifics or how to achieve a desired result, but they understand […]

If you're running WordPress on IIS and experiencing an issue where navigating to /wp-admin results in either a blank page or a 404 error, you may need an additional rule in your .htaccess file. Generally you'll find that, assuming you're […]

A common problem when running WordPress under Windows and IIS is how to handle URL Rewrites. URL Rewrites are usually used with WordPress to format the permalink structure of post URL's in a nice way, and to remove the need […]

I'm an Android user. I have a love / hate relationship with the platform. On one hand, I love the ability to have full control over every aspect of my phone and customize it to suite my preferences (see root […]

If you're building an iOS app and using a UIWebView control to load web pages or HTML, you may have encountered an issue where the app seems to crash randomly while loading the HTML. We found that the crashes were […]

When launching the latest version of www.cypressnorth.com (AKA this site) we came across a very frustrating issue that took us a lot of time to solve. On the homepage we have a carousel of our offerings using jQuery and the […]

In a previous post I discussed how to accomplish cross domain JSON requests and some caveats to be aware of. That example involved a scenario in which you had control of the web service environment and were able to allow […]

Be sure to check out parts one, two, and three of this series. Part four of this series has our hardware and network all set up and ready for software configuration. This can be the most confusing part of the […]