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Archive for May, 2007
The evolution of AppliedI.net
May 11th
I was using the wayback machine at archive.org to review some of the old versions of the AppliedI.net website. Here’s one of the earliest versions. This was actually the second incarnation of www.appliedi.net:
This was from late 1999, note the emphasis on NT Hosting! 
Here’s what our site looked like in 2001. Some of the javascript features don’t display today but you get the general ideal.
What I like most about these early designs was some of the information on there. The earliest news on the site seems to have been from July of 99.
Here’s some of the early highlights
Rolling out advanced (for the day) mail services
This was running a very early version of imail actually and at the time very few shared hosting provides provided IMAP, LDAP or webmail access to their mail servers. We were quite proud to bring this out.
Among the earliest to offer Windows 2000 hosting
It’s funny, at the time Windows 2000 was scary for many companies and many enterprises didn’t adopt it. In fact, there was a huge urban myth floating around about how Microsoft would own all your data if you were on Windows 2000.
Yes we were Mobile web ready!
Y2K Ready? Yes we were!
Sharepoint? How about Office 2000 Server Extensions. Yeap had ‘em!
Developer Friendly? Yes, Even back then!
Eight years later our mission remains the same.
One of the most interesting things about our little digital excavation here is that since October of 1998, when Applied Innovations was but a clever idea and February of 1999 when it officially launched. The core values and mission of Applied Innovations has remained very much the same:
versatile, full-featured cost effective solutions for today’s entrepreneur and small to medium sized business.
You know it’s a good training session when . . . .
May 2nd
You walk away with a ton of new links and tools to go check out.
I attended the “exploring new web technologies” training session today by Microsoft, lead by the infamous Joe Healy. Although much of the information was redundant from other training I have attended previously (this was a 100 level training session actually) I collected the following great links and tidbits:
- http://sessions.visitmix.com has all the MIX sessions from this year’s and last year’s MIX’s available for download or streaming. If you click on on any of the streaming ones they stream via SILVERLIGHT!
- Expression Blend 2 Alpha is available from the Expression website and includes support for the next version of Silverlight (v1.1 alpha) including the integrated CLR (can you say .NET running on multiple platforms… AND SO IT BEGINS!)
- Vulcantech, a local company purchased clipper from CA and supposedly has made it much faster and Joe says they’re sharp cookies. This I just jotted down because it was local.
- Foxpro is going opensource.
- Michael Wesch, a digital anthropologist has a cool video on youtube: here.
- Nikhil Kothari’s Web development helper is good stuff. I’m still a big fan of firebug in firefox though.
- wpf.netfx3.com has lots of good tidbits
- The latest Bradley vehicle uses WPF for their navigation system or something like that. Not sure, but this is pretty cool if it turns out to be accurate.
- Dinnernow.net has some cool stuff on it.
- XamlPad is a simple xaml editor. Here‘s a simple youtube editor on how to use it.
- Microsoft seems pretty cool about distributing VPC images provided you time bomb them. Ofcourse you’ll want to get permission from MS, etc. But the fact that you could distro a demo of your application on a ready to run VPC image is cool.
- Silverlight.live.com. Microsoft will give you 4GB of free diskspace to stream some silverlight content of your choice.
Finally, if you’re not aware already. Applied Innovations fully supports XAML hosting today on the .net framework 3.0 as well as full support for ASP.NET AJAX and silverlight as well.
