I use the Internet almost everyday and like many others, I’m sure, I take for granted where it actually is. Yeah, sure its everywhere. Kinda like god. But where can I actually see the wires and tubes and plugs (oh my!)? Right here. An example of many of the Meet-me rooms strategically placed through out [...]

All to often I’ve hear the development team saying ‘it’s an IE6 specific problem’ or an IE7 issue, so it was interesting to read on Microsoft?’s MSDN IEBlog that IE8 “will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can” Previously Microsoft had said otherwise so good to note they are [...]

Turning data into pretty charts and graphs has never been an easy task for web developers. For some reason, this has never been a standard part of any of the major web frameworks. We have always had to buy third party software or more recently leverage a reporting system like Crystal or Microsoft Reporting Services. [...]

The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish a secure channel for SSL/TLS. What an error! It took me some time to resolve this but basically it went like this. We have a number of web sites that access web services via an https url. The site and the web services reside on the same [...]

Microsoft’s answer to the iPhone? A coffee table. Remember the touch screen technology in “Minority Report“? Sort of like that. Here is the full review of the product: Here is the much more popular (1.2 million views on YouTube) parody from SarcasticGamer.com. Could this be the next Tablet PC? What is a Tablet PC I [...]

I just thought Id post this to hopefully assist others with this problem. I have seen and read numerous posts on IIS permission errors. A number of articles correctly point out that the impersonate user or if not impersonating then the NETWORK_SERVICE account and the ASPNET account, need modify access to the folder you want [...]

There has been too much talk about broadband lately for my liking. This is all that needs to be said on the issue: No, it isn’t fast enough. No, it isn’t cheap enough. No, New Zealand it isn’t good enough to say that because your broadband speed is faster than Australia it isn’t an issue.

Google Print Ads has been in the pipeline for a while now, but has only officially launched this week. The online demo has a full explanation of how it works but essentially it allows you buy space in any of their partner newspapers. You can place one ad in one paper or do a nationwide [...]

Andre points out Tim Ferriss Web 2.0 keynote presentation and opens my eyes to not only the concept of batching but also to Tim (now added to my RSS feeds). To be honest I had already assigned parts of my day to responding to emails but Tim?’s concept of batching takes this a step further. [...]

I have been wanting to put something up for a while about some of the companies in the online video space that I have been looking at recently. What better way to do this than by doing a video post? Technorati Tags: fooa07nyc, joost, mobile tv, tv2.0