Author name: Jess

With a background in web development and web server administration dating back to 1994, Jess Coburn founded Applied Innovations in 1999. As CEO, he led the company to become a recognized leader in Windows Hosting, specializing in ASP.NET, E-Commerce, and advanced web application hosting. Under Jess's leadership, Applied Innovations became known for making cutting-edge technology accessible and affordable for businesses. Building on this success, Jess expanded his vision by founding QIT Solutions, a managed cloud, IT, and cybersecurity company, where he continues to leverage his extensive industry experience to deliver innovative and secure IT solutions to businesses.

Microsoft Expression Interactive and Graphic Design Free Betas

Microsoft has recently released updated CTPs of their Expression Interactive Design and Graphics Design applications (personally I can't wait to see the Web Design application when it's released or atleast made available via beta). You can get details on what the Expression product line are at: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx The Expression Dev Team has a blog online […]

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Virtual Server 2005 R2 & iSCSI

Microsoft has an article available regarding Virtual Server 2005 R2 and iSCSI. I've been digging around on the forums and it seems the only way to really get the performance out of this is by having the iSCSI storage on the actual host machine. I haven't played with it, don't know enough about it but I do know iSCSI

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Virtual Server SCSI or IDE drives and why is SCSI so damn slow?

So in the Virtual Server how to on setting up a 2 node cluster there was mention that you should select the SCSI drive emulatored because the IDE emulator was slower than the SCSI one and that this was true even if you were running on IDE disks. Strange, right? Virtual PC Guy recently wrote

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Creating a Virtual Server 2005 Cluster

Server Virtualization is becoming a major item these days and is many companies are adopting it. I've heard storys all over the place from development to production, from guys using it to setup test labs of multiple servers using only a handful of boxes to companies replacing 700 physical servers with less than 350. For the

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SQL2005 Express Edition, Free Free Free

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

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Free VS.net 2005 Books

Actually they’re Visual Basic 2005 -ebooks, but free is good Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/IntroTo2005/default.aspx Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/UpgradingVB6/default.aspx Hopefully we’ll see some C# books getting released fairly soon, I’m a big fan of C#.

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