This week I’ll be traveling to the Microsoft 2010 Worldwide Partner Conference and I’m excited because I’ll have ‘Speaker Credentials’ at this, Microsoft’s Flagship event for Partners. I’ve been invited by Anil Reddy to speak during his sessions and talk about our successes recently that were made possible thanks to our partnership with Microsoft. I’ll […]
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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I’m excited to announce that Applied Innovations has partnered with Microsoft and is providing free beta hosting for WebMatrix users. If you’re not familiar with WebMatrix, (that’s probably because it was launched less than an hour ago), let me bring you up to speed. WebMatrix is a new, easy to use tool from Microsoft that
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Over the past month I’ve been asked several times by vendors, colleagues and friends “What do I think about DotNetPanel deciding to go open source as WebsitePanel?” Well… I think it’s FANTASTIC! There I said it! I’ve evaluated DotNetPanel in the past and found it to be very powerful, full of features and definitely had
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Over the past month I’ve been asked several times by vendors, colleagues and friends “What do I think about DotNetPanel deciding to go open source as WebsitePanel?” Well… I think it’s FANTASTIC! There I said it! I’ve evaluated DotNetPanel in the past and found it to be very powerful, full of features and definitely had
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So I’ve become extremely fond of my iPad. I think it’s the future form factor for ‘sofa surfing’ (that’s web surfing from your sofa while watching TV). I just checked into my hotel here in Bellevue for the Microsoft Hosting Summit and wanted to get my iPad online. The problem only wired internet was included
Turning Windows 7 into a Wi-FI Access Point (for free!) Read More »
I’m currently in seat 10a on my flight to San Francisco abroad virgin America and am 38228ft above Austin traveling at 430mph and thought what a great time blog. Well first let me say this is the greatest flight experience ever! We arrived at8 am for our flight only to see the lines at southwest
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Microsoft has loosened the usage rights (SPUR) around Windows Web Server 2008 R2. This is the low cost server license available from Microsoft. In the past you were limited on what could run on this server to only include web servers (HTTP) no database servers, no DNS services, nothing. This meant you needed to opt
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I have a new Dell M4400 laptop that I just got up and running with Windows 7 and thought “WOW! It would be great to boot this thing as Hyper-V server and just run the demos on there … but I have everything installed already!” What to do? The solution turns out to be incredibly
How to dual boot Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 with a VHD Read More »
Earlier today, ScottGu (pictured to the right of me and no I’m not about to spit on him!) announced the WebsiteSpark program. WebsiteSpark is a new program by Microsoft to help independent web developers and designers build on the Microsoft Web platform. Applied Innovations was selected as one of the first hosters involved in
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