How fast is fast?
Bandwidth test applications are all over the place, there’s a dozen websites you can hit to tell you just what your internet bandwidth is.
SQL data types
Date types are pretty important but often overlooked (especially from a hack of a programmer like me) so to save myself a ton of headaches I've copied a table I found elsewhere on the internet for myself. The table came from: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.phpr/2212141 bigint Integer data from -2^63 through 2^63-1 int Integer data from -2^31 through
Microsoft gets behind InstaSite and similar Web based site builders
I mentioned previously about Applied Innovations and our instasite sitebuilder and just how cool it is. I really believe that applications like this will revolutionize website design making it easier for the common person to put online a professional and yet custom website. Yet it's good to see we're not the only ones that think it's cool. In
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Online merchants finally have protection against fraudulent chargebacks
Cardinal Commerce offers the verified by visa program and is supported by both storefront and bvcommerce. It’s a service the client subscribes to that helps block fraudulent chargebacks. Say you have a online pc store and you sell someone a pc online. During checkout they’ll be asked for their password for their visa account, once
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Web based site builders
Recently Applied Innovations released their web based site builder, instasite http://instasite.appliedi.net/ . I've been a big fan of templated sitebuilders but until recently they never had all of the features necessary to make them useful and easy enough that you didn't need a degree in computer science to figure one out. The beauty of this
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/blog/ or /blogs/ or what? where do I go…
So I setup my fancy blog and am good to go. So I announce to my fellow geeks “hey I got a blog” and here’s the address: http://www.jesscoburn.com/blog/ but only one problem. My blog is actually at http://www.jesscoburn.com/blogs/ !!! DOH!!
Well, actually this isn’t a problem. By utilizing ISAPI-rewrite from helicontech (http://www.helicontech.com) I can rewrite this url and auto-magically redirect the urls.
So
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Hello World! My First Blog Post
The first official geek log er… um… uh… I mean blog post will be on this blog application. The blog is using Community Server by Telligent Systems and blog hosting by Applied Innovations. To create the blog was pretty simply thanks to the AppliedI.net support team:
1. I simply had a SQL2000 database created for me.
2. I uploaded the contents of the community
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