Visual Studio Express Tools Updated

It has been a long time since I last mentioned the Visual Studio Express stuff. At some point since then I see that new versions were released. And yes, they’re still free!

These things are great. Pretty full featured too. If you’re a hobbyist or home user — or just looking for a good way to

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Landing Pages and Analytics

I was visiting with our marketing person earlier this week and she mentioned that she was going to be doing a few print campaigns -- and needed a way to track the hits that each campaign generated.

Doesn't seem that difficult, does it? I already have a Google Analytics account going for that site so want

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Dynamic Amazon Ads?

Wouldn't it be neat to have Amazon ads, like I do in my sidebar, show books related to the current post being viewed? For some odd reason, that idea popped into my head earlier this evening and initiated a quest. A quest that got me close, but ultimately, left me a bit disappointed. Follow

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Wisdom

Amazing what you can find whilst Stumbling about.

To Those About To Hack

FrontPage Server Extensions = PITA

Thursday, one of the developers stopped by to tell me that he needed FrontPage Server extensions added to our dev server.

Now, I know he's been working on some ASP.NET stuff so was forced to ask, "Why in the world do you need those?"

Turns out he was attempting to work with a pile of projects as

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