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 […]
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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
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eWeek has an article talking about Beta 3 of Longhorn and it mentions the current IIS7 Beta hosts: MaximumASP DiscountASP Applied Innovations Hostmysite Web Fusion and mentions the following hosts are due to release their offering soon: CrystalTech Mosso Affinity You can read the article here: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2122318,00.asp
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I blogged earlier about the great work the Microsoft Team was doing with the Zend team to get PHP running better on Windows. I can definitely say it’s made a difference. Some of our clients run really large PHP sites or bulletin boards (in fact this blog is running on PHP 5.2.1 on Windows). In
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We’ve had the pleasure of really digging in Longhorn and IIS7 for a few months now but yesterday Microsoft made the first public beta release of Longhorn available. This new beta also includes the latest builds of IIS7 and a plethora of new information was released along with this. You can learn more about what’s
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I can remember back when Yahoo! Maps launched, how amazing this was. Then there was TerraServer with satellite pics of the work, followed by google earth. But this is just too cool. Microsoft has taken their maps and 2D images and made 3D images of them. They recently added Miami (right around the Superbowl). Here’s
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My friends at webmastersdepot.com have been awesome. I’ve been helping them out with their VPS and the configuration of their applications and recently helped them setup wordpress mu. WordPress MU is a blogging application built around wordpress (greatest blogging app available) that allows you to create a blogger.com, livespaces.com, wordpress.com (in fact it powers wordpress.com)
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February is the month of love. With the exchanging of Chocolates and Flowers, Jewelry and Gifts, what a better time than February to release the newest gem of web development: Ruby on Rails on Windows! Mike Volodarsky (a product manager with the IIS team at Microsoft) has given us a Ruby on Rails on Windows tutorial. (BTW, this
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I was recently asked if I provided feeds to my blog. I realized it’s not really displayed that I have a feed available for the blog. Since I use wordpress for my blog (running on a windows hosting account at AppliedI.net) it’s really quite easy to subscribe. Subscribing to my wordpress blog via Firefox When
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Yes, it’s official, PHP 5.2.1 is now available for download as per this article at mvolo.com. What’s so exciting about 5.2.1? Performance, BABY! Microsoft has been working with Zend to make PHP “rock solid” on Windows as well as working on a new FastCGI implementation. From Mike’s blog: You will also notice that the PHP
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