Windows 2003 TCP Tweak

I have spent the past few days working on migrating a bunch of classic ASP web applications from a Windows 2000 server to a Windows 2003 server. A long overdue task, but one who’s time has finally come. The hardware under the Windows 2000 box has been acting up a bit lately and I’m rapidly

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Lost Afternoon

Lost most of the afternoon today wrestling with the deployment of one of our web applications. Some new “client-specific” code had been developed in our dev environment and it was now time to move it out to QA (quality assurance) and then, hopefully, production.

The dev environment web server is still running Windows 2000 Server.

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Soap and XML fun

Writing this up as the result of a nudge from our CIO: We had the situation described below and didn't find a whole lot as we searched the web for tips. So, next time this happens to someone, maybe this'll help.

While making web service call from one of our (classic ASP) web applications,

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Want another reason to avoid table based layout?

Just about any web developer has probably been lectured more than once about the evils of using tables for page layout. I'll spare the lectures -- you've either heard 'em a million times or you're on your way to Google right now to search. Today I discovered another reason why table based layout

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Handy Tip o’ the Day

Been totally swamped with the day job recently. Some of it a real drag, some of it pretty intriguing. The intriguing thing is a bit of re-inventing a wheel that's been invented a million times... yet a great challenge and is keeping me up entirely too late futzing with it. In brief,

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