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"In late April, the UserVoice security team learned that an unauthorized party illegally accessed one of UserVoice’s backend reporting systems and was able to view user data on a s…

Every tree maintained by the City of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) has "an email address" (in the mainstream press it's been "one email per tree"; in reality it's a single mailbo…

Thank you for responding, I've sent through some details about my case.

I like the Fitbit hardware (I use a Surge and love running with it) and their software is decent, but their customer service is atrocious. I found a bug triggered by hitting the "P…

What's the source of your Australian data? The AusPost data is rather expensive, and most providers have somewhat awkward APIs and/or enterprise sales models that get tricky to nav…

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Surely a coffee-infused stout can provide the best of both worlds? That said, unless it's a side project that isn't in real use I don't tend to work after drinking alcohol, but it'…

Yep, it's got it's limits - I would only use this in production with carefully crafted queries to try too counter this problem. My usual use is against MS CRM data, which puts a 10…

Depends on the data source, I believe. I think some can be RW however I never use it - allowing users to update data from Excel isn't something I'm keen on, other than possibly as …

Post author here - I'm about to go dark for the day but I'd love to hear how you're dealing with this both as site builders and as parents.

Excel does this with it's built-in data sources. Typically it can connect to any ODBC data source, which includes pretty much any SQL database and most proprietary databases (altho…

It shows dd/mm/yyyy for me - Chrome 23, Windows 7 set to en-AU locale.

It's a poorly designed "mobile" site - not needed since their site works perfectly in mobile browsers anyway. Try the "FULL SITE" link in the footer - takes you to a zoomable versi…

Thanks for the clarification - the SP platform is still perfectly usable in non-IE browsers, although as you say a few nice things aren't available.

SharePoint is cross-browser, at least as of SharePoint 2010. I don't believe any functions require IE. Disclaimer: I work for an MS partner, while I don't admin SharePoint our comp…