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/

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.

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.