A Quick Look at Log Parser

This morning I was alerted to the fact that one of our clients was having problems with our application last night. Unfortunately, none of their end users had captured any of the error messages. I checked the SQL and Windows Event logs but found nothing helpful. Then I had a look in into the IIS

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Working With WordPress and Windows IIS

I was working on a Windows 7 machine and I needed to get all the Microsoft web and SQL Server stuff on it for an upcoming project. I grabbed the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 and started checking boxes. While exploring the options I noticed that it offered to install WordPress (along with quite

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IIS 6 and Worker Process Recycling

Many moons ago we had a web app with a 3rd party control that appeared to leak memory over time. The web server was IIS 5 (Windows 2000) and at the time it seemed like the easiest way to work around the leak was to simply restart IIS every night with a scheduled call to

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My Web App Isn’t a Spammer

At work we build and host web based applications. As part of that, our applications generate email. We don’t get too fancy with sending email, we just shoot it out using Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) SMTP service. Traditionally we never really configured it, we just turned it loose.

As the world becomes more and more

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Microsoft Web-related News

There were a couple of big announcements from Microsoft this week, both of interest to web developers and/or users of the MS web stack. Without further ado…

WebsiteSpark (info PDF)

If you’re a small firm (less than 10 folks) focused on  Web dev and design, you may qualify for a boatload of “free” MS licenses. In return,

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