So Windows Server is a fantastic environment for PHP, it has only improved and will only continue to improve. However, CURL no longer bundles the root certificates in any builds and this causes problems when you look to leverage curl to do something like call an API with HTTPS in the URL. Some will recommend […]
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Back in September of 2009 Microsoft developed a program called WebsiteSpark. WebsiteSpark was meant to drive developer interest into the Windows Web Platform and drive awareness to the Microsoft Expression family of products. Recently Microsoft announced that the Expression family of products would be changing as they worked towards unifying their development tools and moving
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Today at Applied Innovations, we announced that we have officially launched Windows Server 2012 Beta cloud servers on top of a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cluster! This is all really cool because it’s the first time we’ve been able to publicly discuss the amount of time we’ve been working with Microsoft around Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 and Partnering with Microsoft! Read More »
SPAM is an interesting topic. There are several different definitions of SPAM and depending on who you talk to, you’ll get any of a number of explanations of what SPAM is or is not. At Applied Innovations, our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) defines SPAM very clearly and that it’s not tolerated here at Applied Innovations:
The CAN-SPAM Act and did PowerDNN.com DotNetNuke Hosting Violate it? You be the judge Read More »
For years now I’ve been spreading the word about how great PHP runs on Windows. In fact, my own blog runs on PHP on Windows. It also amazes me today the amount of closed minded individuals out there with established misconceptions around how PHP runs on Windows. This really all dates back to the early
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One of the extremely cool features with IIS Developer Express is that you can extend it with the same modules you’d extend IIS7.5 with. Examples of popular modules are the IIS SEO Toolkit, FastCGI and WinCache. Which are all included already. I’ve been looking for a module to add to it as an example that
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3 Blog posts to say “Hey I’m running on my site load balanced using ARR”. This is the third and hopefully last blog post for tonight. I posted two other posts tonight: Discusses the first stage of Applied Innovations Cloud Initiative. Discusses ARR & Load balancing. All of this was to explain how I’m running
JessCoburn.Com running on ARR! and that not be Pirate speak thar Matey! Read More »
In the 10 years I’ve been working with Windows as a web hosting platform (and the 15 or so I’ve been working with web servers period), I can confidently say that IIS7 is without question the best web server platform to date. Microsoft has been working on a plug-in for IIS called Application Request Routing
A little info about Application Request Routing (or ARR) in IIS7. Read More »
Being a technologist all my life I’ve come to realize one thing: “to be good at what you do you can never stop learning”. (I also think to remain youthful at any age it’s important to never stop learning but that’s another conversation altogether.) With that in mind you’re often confronted with a task that
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Tired of trying to find just the right wordpress theme? There’s millions of them to choose from afterall. Would love to create your own but have less artistic talent now than you did in Kindergarten with a box of busted chunks of crayolas? (You know what I’m talking about. First week of school you had
The easy way to create your first WordPress Theme. Read More »