Well I just finished Jimmy Buffett’s – “A Salty Piece of Land”. View link here (Amazon) Great book. I have been a fan of all Buffett books for a long time. Since I first read his short stories back on college. This book takes us on a fantastic ride with Tully Mars. From the cattle ranch out west to the bone …
I was reading Joel’s blog the other day and noticed he had a linke to a site called www.connectionstrings.com What a great site. I could have used this information a few hundred times already. Just thinking back on some recent projects, when I had to search for some old code for google for some code on how to connect to a …
I was thinking a while back how difficult it would be to learn how to use the .NET platform if I did not have the Visual Studio IDE interface. It go me thinking and searching for some alternatives. I did remember that you could use webmatrix www.asp.net/webmatrix I have never used Web Matrix but it seems like it would do the …
I finally found out some information about the local time number. You know, the number you could call and a nice lady would come on and tell you what time it was. After some research I found out that SBC Michigan has discontinued the service. I first found out about this from my wife. She was complaining that the “time lady” …
I keep reading blogs with people talking about the death of the album. In fact on slashdot they have a story HERE from the Washington Post about the death of CD’s. The idea is that we can all make our plastic (cd’s , dvd, tapes) and we will no longer buy them. For some reason this just not sit well with …
I have finally completed the move from gotdotnet.com to sourceforge.net. You can get to the sourceforge page at this link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iisreporter/ So far I have been really happy with the sourceforge location. I ended up udating my CVS to use sourceforge. I am currently using both SourceSafe and TortoiseCVS. Just to let you know how much I am enjoying sourceforge. I …
I finally go around to launching the site iisreporter.com. Both to hold the iisreporter project but to also allow for a place to discuss IIS issues. Please email me if you have any more ideas. www.iisreporter.com Still working on content.
Well I have been searching for the perfect mobile device. Cell phone, handheld, and web browsers. Let me tell you that I have not found it yet. This all started with the need for a new cell phone. After testing a Palm Treo 600, and the black berry I decided that they were not up to par yet. So I took …
I do a lot of coding for web sites and web applications. One of the major issues we have is the way an app or site renders in a particular browser. For example, a site that uses tags will render entirely different in Firefox / Mozilla than in I.E. This often becomes a problem with usability. So when AOL announced their …
Google just released their beta of google maps. http://maps.google.com It seems to me like the browser wars of years ago. Now instead we have MSN, Google, and Yahoo. Each seem to be trying to out do each other. MSN launching a new engine, google adding powerful services, and yahoo just seems to be ticking. This new map service from google is …
I was channel surfing last night and ran across a show called “The Code Room“. It is a reality show about coding. Put on by MSDN TV. You can watch the full show on MSDN TV – HERE In this pilot show, 3 programers are locked in a room with one laptop and 3 partially charged batteries. They have to design, …
I am really starting to get annoyed with content spam. Some bot’s decided to send spam through my blog. I decided to add an image fill for checking for real feedback. I am currently in testing, so please be patient if you are planning on sending some feedback.
The guys over at IIS-Resources have a link to the IIS reporter tool Link to download – Here If you have not taken the chance to visit iis-resources.com please do, it is now the home of the nt control pannel project which is a cpannel like admin control pannel for hosting.
Thank you to everyone for their great ideas and suggestions. I have cleaned up a few memory issues (performance) and also added a few monitoring features. I added a system tray icon and menu info for real time info Updated the system uptime clock – it was polling the sum and not the real info. I also updated the xml write …
You have heard of writers block, well I have coding block. I am 90% completed with my next version of IISMonitor – a program what will provide real-time IIS information for multiple IIS web servers. It will consist of a webservice to be installed on each machine to be monitored, and then a central monitor server that will combine all information …