Windows Web Hosting, Web Technologies, etc
Archive for May, 2007
New Version of Windows Live Writer
May 31st
Looks like today was a big day in the Microsoft Live area. Live Writer has quickly become a preferred blog authoring tool for just about everyone I’ve introduced it to. In fact, I can’t think of anyone that uses anything else! There’s a ton of new features but my favorite is the new API that allows for more customization. Why is this great? There’s already a plethora of extensions for Windows Live Writer and this is only going to promote more. Check out the windows live writer blog for more details.
We also have new betas for:
Windows Live Writer (the editor I use to compose blog posts)
Windows Live Messenger (yeah, I use that too)
and Windows Live Mail (my wife uses this)
We have a fancy new look and feel now too!
aspdotnetstorefront talk follow-up
May 29th
Last week myself and Carlos Caneja spoke on webhosting and how it relates to e-commerce applications at the aspdotnetstorefront / interprise suite, “Connections Business Technology Conference”. If you’re not familiar with what interprise and aspdotnetstorefront are doing, these two companies have been working together to bring a complete CRM/ERP solution that integrates with an e-Commerce application online. It’s quite exciting to see the work they’re doing and the other companies they’re partnered with. The image on the left is that of myself, Rob from aspdotnetstorefront and Carlos.
This was an excellent opportunity for us to meet with a segment of our core customerbase (businesses and developers that specailize in ecommerce on the asp.net platform) and discuss the issues that they face on a regular basis. This also gave us an opportunity to showcase how webhosting has evolved over the past 9 years and show examples of this with our own product offerings and their own evolution.
Carlos & I split the talk with Carlos leading the discussion on dedicated hosting and what’s best practices today with dedicated hosting and then demonstrating what’s to come with IIS7. I spent time discussing shared hosting and how it’s evolved and how it continues to evolve thanks to virtual private server hosting on Windows 2003.
If I had to pick two things from my portion of the talk that really stood out it would be VPS hosting and the exciting impact it’s having on webhosting and that the simple issues are what concern today’s hosting customer.
I hope to blog soon about all the information we picked up from our various discussions and will be posting links to all of the conference presentations.
links for 2007-05-16
May 16th
I saw the Secret Service Bomb Robot
May 15th
On May 6th my wife and I were visiting Washington DC prior to going to the SWsoft conference. While walking through DC we saw the white house was closed off and they weren’t letting anyone close to it. Thinking we’d get to see the President or the Queen (She was visiting that weekend) we waited around. Well we didn’t get to see either but we did get to see the US Secret Service Bomb Robot in action. Definately not something you get to see everyday. Ofcourse it was a false alarm but still quite interesting to see. I’ll post more DC photos and details about what’s new and upcoming from SWsoft. They demo’d Virtuozzo 4.0 and it’s new management tools and it’s very impressive.
Zachary Roberts’ designer cake
May 14th
I got word from my Aunt that my Cousin (Andy Roberts) and his son (Zachary Roberts) made a pretty cool cake and got featured in their local paper. I have to admit this is pretty awesome indeed. Not sure where they got the idea for such a gruesome cake but it’s way cool.
Kudos to Zach and his dad for the awesome job on the cake.
