It is summer and I read a lot during this time of the year. I often slide between some technical book (currently reading extreme hacking) and fun books. The book I just finished was “Odd Thomas” by Dean Koontz. I have read a few of his books and they are always entertaining. YOu can find out more here http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/koontz/ot_book.html Very good …
This week I have been able to see and test a lot of new programs. 1. google earth (earth.google.com) Essentially it is keyhole (a program google purchased) on crack. They added all the great features of google maps to this sat image program. If you have not tried it, go download. It’s free. 2. Google Video player. I had heard about …
Well I have many ideas on how to update and modify the IIS reporter application I have written. I have finally got VS2005 up and running on my machine and will try to migrate IIS reporter over to 2.0. I have a few releases I need to get up to the source server. I also have a web service version that …
For those who know me, I am in the middle of training for a Marathon. The Chicago Marathong (LINK) is October 9, 2005. I am excited and also a bit afraid of running 26 miles. I have put in my first few weeks of training, this last weekend I got a 6 and an 8 mile run in. So if you …
Well I finally got around to looking at google sitemaps (googlesitemaps). If you don’t already have a google account (gmail acount also) just register for one. I have been wanting to test this service out. So I embarked on creating a simple xml (sitemap based file) for this site. I downloaded the python script and started to run it. I do …
I had a great week at teched. Here is a quick summary of some interesting things I learned. Architecture program from microsoft. Microsoft has an architecture advisory board. I met a member of that board at TechEd – Jim Wilt. You can read more here http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/ IIS 7.0 – Is too long in coming and has all of us Admins waiting …
One of the great sessions I attended was about ASP.Net 2.0 and Master Pages. The idea is that you can create a master page that all other pages bind from. This concept is similar to a tempate design but with a master page you can lock in certain page variables and attributes that you would like an entire site or area …
I have been so busy here in Orlando, I have not been able to post any more info. I have attended so many sessions and Cabana’s that I am overwhelmed. First things first, IIS 7.0 will rock. They have taken a modular approach to how you can configure and extend IIS. This allows an administrator to either lockdown a server by …
I am attending Teched 2005 (www.microsoft.com/teched). Today is registration day. I was riding the shuttle to the conference center and happened upon one of the IIS Server team members from Microsoft. That is a trip, I work with IIS amlost every day and was hoping to gain some information on the new version. The individual I met from microsoft is very …