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Installing ModSecurity on IIS7.X

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1 week ago
by Jess in
ModSecurity is an open-source web application firewall that has been widely deployed on Apache based web servers to protect web applications from security vulnerabilities and has recently been made available in a stable version for IIS based servers from version 7.X and above.  However, installing ModSecurity on your windows cloud servers running IIS7.X could be problematic and I wanted to provide a little guidance around installing it and getting it running an initial ruleset in monitor and Read more [...]

Farewell to WebsiteSpark and the Expression Suite

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1 month ago
by Jess in
Back in September of 2009 Microsoft developed a program called WebsiteSpark.  WebsiteSpark was meant to drive developer interest into the Windows Web Platform and drive awareness to the Microsoft Expression family of products.  Recently Microsoft announced that the Expression family of products would be changing as they worked towards unifying their development tools and moving this functionality into the Visual Studio suite.  The full changes are as follows: Expression Blend – Read more [...]
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Math is hard, Financial Projections are Easy .. eznumbers that is.

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3 months ago
by Jess in
Although the new year is well along it’s way, it’s still not too early to dial in your business plans.  So I thought I‘d share a great application I came across the middle of last year while in the midst of evaluating an acquisition, it’s called EZ Numbers.  EZ Numbers is built for startups so they can create pro forma financial projections when seeking funding but I’ve found it far more useful than just for startups or acquisitions.  By using EZ Numbers any existing company Read more [...]
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Microsoft’s vision of the Cloud OS and what it means to you (and me)

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3 months ago
by Jess in
Recently I had the opportunity to be part of a Microsoft Press Briefing where they announced System Center 2012 SP1 was released and how it played a part of their vision of the Cloud OS.  Since that briefing I’ve had a number of conversations and I thought where better than here to discuss that. What is the Cloud OS The Cloud OS is Microsoft’s vision of a consistent platform across customer datacenters, service provider datacenters and the Microsoft public cloud.  It’s the ability Read more [...]

FIX for WordPress error: Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable.

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4 months ago
by Jess in
After upgrading to WordPress 3.5 you may get an error message: Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable. In version 3.5 they introduced a new variable in the wp-config.php file called WP_TEMP_DIR.  The resolution for this error is to add: /* Setup a temporary folder for uploading and updating */define( 'WP_TEMP_DIR', ABSPATH . 'wp-content/tmp/') ; At the end of your wp-config.php file. You may have to create the tmp folder under the wp-content Read more [...]
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