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AppliedI.net presenting at aspdotnetstorefront technology conference
Apr 18th
In May aspdotnetstorefront and Interprise will be presenting a technology conference spotlighting not only aspdotnetstorefront and interprise but will bring together over a dozen companies presenting their finest solutions in terms of Accounting, CRM, eCommerce, Point of Sale, Internet Security, Multi Channel Marketing, Credit Card Processing…. The list goes on. The long and short of it is that this will an excellent ecommerce workshop for any business, web developer or online professional looking to see what the latest innovations in online business are today and are to come. Applied Innovations has been asked to lead a presentation on webhosting, explaining the latest trends in hosting, technologies available and ofcourse threats to ecommerce based sites so that web developers specializing in e-commerce can make informed and educated decisions when selecting a webhosting platform for their application.
Applied Innovations has a solid track record as a Windows based hosting provider that has catered to e-commerce hosting since 1999. Today we power over 10,000 domains on our network and more than 70% of our customers operate ecommerce based websites. To add to that I have a love for e-commerce. Not too many people know my own background with e-commerce. You see, back in 1996/1997 I wrote my own shopping cart system in Perl from the ground up. I spent the next 3 years extending it and eventually decided it would make an excellent e-mall application. So with my newly earned MCSE and already extensive webdeveloper and sys admin experience, I gathered the 30 clients I had developed sites for and started a windows hosting company catering ofcourse to ecommerce based web sites and “so it began”. It’s hard to believe that today we’ve operated a hosting company since 1999 and that I’ve been building ecommerce since 1996. That’s longer than many ‘web hosts’ have been using computers.
Anyway, the opportunity is outstanding for us as we love to interact with developers and it gives us a chance to further demonstrate just why Applied Innovations is making such a buzz these days in the hosting industry and web developer communities.
You can learn more about the conference here and if you’re attending we’re looking forward to meeting you.
http://www.aspdotnetstorefront.com/technologyconferencebrochure.pdf
To learn more about our e-commerce hosting visit: http://www.appliedi.net/ecommerce-hosting/
ASP.NET AJAX Hosting Support launched
Feb 8th
The past week was a big week for Applied Innovations, the ASP.NET team finally set ASP.NET AJAX (formerly Atlas) as RTM and as a result we released full support for it.
I’ve been a big fan of AJAX for a long time and in fact, it’s used in my blog theme here with the search box. Ofcourse my blog is done in PHP but the concepts are the same.
You can see our Press Release on ASP.NET AJAX hosting over at PRweb: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/2/emw502149.htm
I point out emediawire because some many of the other news sources chop up the PR into what fits best. What’s so great about AppliedI offering ASP.NET AJAX hosting? It’s the great hosting promotion we’re offering with it. We’re including 3 free months of hosting and a FREE SQL2005 database with new signups. Pretty nice offer honestly.
You can learn more about asp.net ajax from our site at http://www.appliedi.net/aspnet-hosting/ajax-hosting.html (and also get details on the promotion).
Looks like Brad Abrams picked up on our offering of AJAX support too.
In fact, looks like we’ve created quite a buzz around our offering.
Meet the Source Force — Free Training Virtual Labs — Free Toys!
Mar 23rd
SDN has a a new thing they've been doing for the past couple months called Source Force. Promoting a series of *FREE*, have you noticed I really like free, this blog should be renamed to "Jess's list of free and cool tools", Anyway a series of Free Virtual Labs on the MSDN site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/virtuallabs/. What's better than getting free training? Free toys! If you do a couple labs and submit evaluations you'll get a free limited edition action figure (I suspect there's some office in Redmond right now with a thousand of these little guys all lined up battling).So I can highly recommend the Training labs from Fritz Onion. I picked up one of Fritz's books on ASP.net and C# a couple years ago and find it one of my best most targetted and straight to the point books. His training is quite good and he really follows through with it including follow up items on his blog. Just one thing on the free toys, they're only available for the Months of Jan, Feb, Mar and Apr so better hurry while you can.
Free copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard and Free ASP.net 2.0 Training
Mar 13th
Microsoft, Dr. Dobbs and O'REILLY are offering Free ASP.net 2.0 training with courses for JSP, PHP and Coldfusion developers looking to migrate over to the dark side. To sweeten the pie you also get a nice pack of freebies, including a copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition, a 50% discount on a MCP exam and some other goodies. Regardless it's a good deal and the training sessions are awesome. Many of them are by Fritz Onion who is an awesome trainer and book author. http://www.learn2asp.net/Campaign.aspx has all the goodies.
SQL2005 Express Edition, Free Free Free
Nov 9th
SQL2005 Express Edition is Microsoft's follow up to MSDE2000. MSDE picked up tons of following and has been in use all over the place. Unfortunately for a web application it really didn't cut it and would be quickly outgrown. SQL2005 EE will replace MSDE and doesn't have the same 20 concurrent connections limitation that MSDE had. Here's the new limitations for SQL2005 Express Edition: – No query or workload governor (this is a big plus) – Limited to 1GB of RAM, it doesn't sound like alot but it's more than enough for most servers – Database sizes limited to 4GB in size. Again this is HUGE for databases most databases never make it over 20MB. – No Clustering (not an issue for most) – No Mirroring (not an issue for most) – No DTS (okay maybe a problem for some, but most don't use it) – No Full Text Search (okay, this is kind of bad, you won't be running sharepoing on express and probably most forums use full text for their search now too) – No Notification Services (what you don't get enough pages already?) – Replication as a subscriber only, still makes it a worthy backup server solution – No Analysis Services (no comment) – Service Broker, subscriber only – No Built in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) but you can download this from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=82AFBD59-57A4-455E-A2D6-1D4C98D40F6E&displaylang=en – No Reporting Services, that's a tiny ouch. – No backup/restore utility, this can be fixed via http://www.sqldbatips.com/showarticle.asp?ID=27 – No job scheduling (aka SQL Agent service) I think that's all of them but I'm not SQL expert so I probably missed some of them. I think the big limiting factor here is going to be no backup and restore utility. I'm off to install SQL express myself now though and see how she does…
