Jim Becher - Surfing the Web

As of 1:00 EST I was unable to get to my sites (www.iisreporter.com). I contacted my hosting company and they had issues but had resolved them. I then looked at my dns settings (godaddy) and their server was not responding to dns lookups. After a few searches I found others…

Here is a great post regarding MOSS 2007 and pricing (http://blah.winsmarts.com/2007-2-SharePoint_2007_Pricing_-_Made_Simple.aspx?postID=242).  I work at technology company and we are doing lots of development with MOSS and installations.  One thing that has not been very easy to examine / describe to customers is the Microsoft Pricing for MOSS.  This blog post…

It is a sad day.  I just found out that GotDotNet (http://www.gotdotnet.com/) will be shutting down.  You can read their reasons on the site.  They plan to shut down my favorite section (user samples) on May 22.  I have used that site many times as a great place to get…

I often use Microsoft’s VPC to do development and testing.  The new version of VPC came out Microsoft VPC 2007.  Though my computer has 2 gigs of RAM I still run into performance issues.  Here are a few great tips on how to keep your VPC running at top speed….

 I often get questions from .NET developers on where they should host.  If they should go with a dedicated server or virtual server.  The major issue that developers have is the price.  A shared hosting site is much cheaper than a Server. The advantages of the server are due to…

I have been wanting to put together a list of online tools.  Some day I will get around to it. Today I just used one of my favorite tools and discovered another related one. I use www.domaintools.com very frequently. Where a site is hosted, what technology is used. When using…

I have made it one week with Vista.  I have migrated all the information I need from my old laptop. But keep finding applications that I am missing.  One of those I am really wanting.  I have used pdfcreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/) for a long time, and their current version does not work…

The team at spout.com has updated their site to include some new features when browsing a move.  You can see these features here (http://www.spout.com/films/5109/default.aspx) (Cannonball Run 2) You should join the spout revolution.

Scott Watermasysk has a great list of tips for using ASP.net (http://scottwater.com/archive/quick-tips-for-asp-net-part-one/) I for one did not know the “never use a label” tip.  After discussing with the guys from work a Literal is the beter method.