When you start searching for any type of a web hosting service in order to host your website, you are going to come across thousands of web hosting services both free and paid. These web hosting services even come in many different schemes and prices and may vary from one another depending upon the quality of service Post from: UK Web Hosting | Linux Windows Server Tutorials | PHP MySQL Service Web Hosting Traps to Avoid | Part 1
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Web Hosting Traps to Avoid | Part 1
The last two days of our Christmas Countdown have been extremely popular and as a consequence, the number of people contacting our support team has skyrocketed. Given we’re already working with a skeleton team during the holiday period – we are struggling to cope. I just ask that you please be a little patient waiting for a response for the next few days.
You have to have some kind of super-powers to keep up with all of the issues posted in our Webmaster Help Forum —that’s why we call our Top Contributors the ” Bionic Posters .” They’re able to leap through tall questions in a single bound, providing helpful and solid information all around. We’re thankful to the Bionics for tackling problems both hard and easy (well, easy if you know how). Our current Bionic Posters are: Webado (Christina) , Phil Payne , Red Cardinal (Richard) , Shades1 (Louis) , Autocrat , Tim Abracadabra , Aaron , Cristina , Robbo , John , Becky Sharpe , Sasch , BbDeath , Beussery (Brian) , Chibcha (Terry) , Luzie (Herbert) , 奥宁 (Andy) , Ashley , Kaleh and Redleg ! With thousands of webmasters visiting the English Help Forum every day, some questions naturally pop up more often than others
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Helping webmasters from user to user
Since the information is an asset that adds value to the company, and now most of the information is stored on computer media, each organization must be able to guarantee the security of their data, in a context where the risks caused by breaches of computer security systems are constantly increasing. Post from: UK Web Hosting | Linux Windows Server Tutorials | PHP MySQL Service Computer Security | Part 2
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Computer Security | Part 2
In this tutorial we will create a reflective orb using only built-in After Effects plug-ins.
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NEW TUTORIAL: Glass Orbs
Some SQLite upgrades from Serendipity prior to 1.5 to the current version might create a problem, that the database update cannot properly update the serendipity_authors database table structure to insert the new “hashtype” (int) column. Due to that column missing, this can lead to the inability to log in. Sadly SQLite does not easily allow to ALTER a table structure, so unless you have a SQLite admin tool to manually that column, and until the Serendipity Team can provide a proper fix, you should not yet update.
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Serendipity 1.5.1 with SQLite
Earlier I had written on migrating your Northwind database from SQL Server to SQL Azure. In that, I had mentioned that the SQL Azure Migration Wizard supports migrating the schema and doesn’t do the data migration which has to be done manually. Meanwhile, George Huey has published a recent version on the SQL Azure Migration Wizard at CodePlex which also does data migration. What this means is that, you can take an existing database and generate the scripts and go ahead and deploy the database along with data into your SQL Azure Database. That’s one hell of work done in a single step, I would say.
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Update to my post on SQL Azure Migration Wizard
New version of CodeIt.Right Enterprise Edition – build 1.9.09355 – is available for download now. This version introduces new feature Merge Profiles that allows to compare and merge user configured profiles, enhances VSTS integration with the new “Add WorkItem” feature, adds command line version parameters and ability to load/unload CodeIt.Right in the menu and Add-In Manager. This update is free for all users who are current on their Software Assurance and Gold Support Subscription New in CodeIt.Right Enterprise v1.9: New Merge Profiles feature allows to compare and merge user configured profiles New “Add WorkItem” feature – create TFS WorkItem from a violation Added /metrics parameter to the command line utility to generate XML output for three metrics reports – “Member”, “Type” and “Code” Added /sendto parameter to the command line utility – send the violation/metrics output via email CodeIt.Right can now be loaded/unloaded in the menu and Add-In Manager Build server setup doesn’t require Visual Studio on the build machine anymore “Built-in profile” option now is not selectable in the Analysis Module when one or more custom profiles deployed via Team Configuration Module New Rules : Specify CultureInfo ( Globalization ) Specify IFormatProvider ( Globalization ) Specify StringComparison ( Globalization ) Avoid excessive complexity ( Maintainability ) Avoid excessive inheritance ( Maintainability ) Do not use deprecated properties of Response object ( AspNet ) Fixed a number of bugs in the application and the rules..
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Released: CodeIt.Right Enterprise v1.9.09355
It’s been a long time, and the Serendipity Team is proud to present the Serendipity 1.5.1 release… …All bad things come in triplets, except this one, which came in a duplet: First the uploaded release file contained the current development version, the second issue was found due to just 3 mixed up characters, which prevents any plugin that has a HTML/WYSIWYG-Config-item (like the HTML Nugget plugin) to be properly displayed. The fix is quite easy: include/functions_plugins_admin.inc.php
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Serendipity 1.5.1, bugfix release
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9 Great Document Collaboration Tools for Teams
On Saturdays, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere . This review features topics including: cross-culture communication; editing your presentation by asking “why?”; addressing the elephant in the room; pitfalls to presenting with someone else’s slides; the growth of Death By PowerPoint; how a video camera will help you improve as a speaker; and a must-read parody: How the Grinch Spoke at Christmas
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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2009-12-19]
In the previous post I had described the steps to secure your Windows Azure tokens and get the necessary Visual Studio templates as well as making your web application Azure ready by adding the cloud project and building against it. Once you have tested the Development Fabric, the instances as well as the application, the next step would be to publish it to the Windows Azure platform. Select the “CloudService1” project that you added to the solution, right click and select “Publish” Once you click on “Publish”, if you are connected to the internet, it would try and open up Azure login screen and once you sign in, https://windows.azure.com/Cloud/Provisioning/Default.aspx If you had received the Windows Azure Tokens, and claimed them (as per my previous posts), you would hit the screen as below upon clicking on your project. in the above, once you click on “New Service” it opens up the page to choose the type of service you would want to create. As mentioned earlier, in the CTP you would get to create 2 storage accounts and one hosted service. In our case, we would require a hosted service, so select the same and proceed to the next screen. It would provide you the option to specify the Service name and description (note both are mandatory) I have provided a name as well as description as per the screen below.
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Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part II
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Earlier I had written 2 posts – Taking your Northwind Database to SQL Azure and binding it to an ASP.NET GridView Part I and Part II . I thought, I will complete the series with a post on moving your ASP.NET Application as well to Windows Azure making it a truly cloud based application. Before we start, there are a bunch of things that you would need to do. First and foremost, you would need a Token for Windows Azure. You can request for a free token for Windows Azure from here after providing your Live ID and a few more details. I am not aware of the current time it takes for receiving a token but in the past it used to be 24 hours. Similarly, if you want to have SQL Azure Tokens, you can get it from here and then login to https://sql.azure.com to redeem the token once you receive the same. (if you had migrated your SQL Database to SQL Azure as per my earlier posts, you would have done these already) Once you receive the tokens for Windows Azure, you would need to visit the http://lx.azure.microsoft.com/ and sign in with your Live ID that you used for registering for the tokens. Once you login, you would be able to see a screen as below Since you haven’t claimed the tokens, there won’t be any projects listed here. You can click on “Account” tab and click on “Manage my Tokens” in the bottom to claim the tokens for Windows Azure. With this token you can create 1 hosted services account and 2 blob storage accounts.
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Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part I
If you have used the Entity Framework that shipped with Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you would really start appreciating the flexibility it offers for building schema driven data access layer and get it to the UI Layer either directly or using a middle tier such as WCF RIA Service. Check my earlier post on this, if you are interested further 
Meanwhile, the other exciting stuff that has been around is the SQL Azure which is part of the Windows Azure platform. SQL Azure provides relational data over the web which means, the Database is hosted, maintained and all is done by us and you get to store your database and query the same as if you were running it in your local Data Center or server. Of course, SQL Azure is currently CTP and you can get free access to it if you have the Azure Tokens. While I had earlier written about Migrating your database to SQL Azure that example used an ASP.NET front end which had a GridView doing direct data binding with SQL DataSource. Obviously, one would want to use some of the more abstract controls such as LINQ DataSource / Entity DataSource.
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Binding Entity Framework to your SQL Azure Database – Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
While working on SQL Azure connectivity from Visual Studio 2010, I faced the above error. The full error text is as below:- “ Server name cannot be determined. It must appear as the first segment of the server’s dns name (servername.database.windows.net). Some libraries do not send the server name, in which case the server name must be included as part of the user name (username@servername). In addition, if both formats are used, the server names must match .
In the green-filtered sunlight through the closing canopy the rain washed garden sparkles with joy Today people standing on the freezing streets of Copenhagen hold candles of hope for the planet whilst the world leaders haggle about responsibility in warm lit rooms candles burning on the streets for a belief in a planet and a spirit of caring that is wider than themselves This has been a long year in Zimbabwe walking the steps of survival at a time when the work of healing and community building and empowerment has been handicapped by lack of funded support and the stark reality of giving up /closing down has had to be faced or to try to continue their work holding on to the web of good intentions For the last months of this year, in the face of disaster the Tree of Life was held in place by a web of love of witnessing and donations from individuals from all over the planet who dared to care .
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We all know that a fast-loading website acts as a boon to your business. But, despite knowing this fact, many websites owners have started relying on heavy images, AJAX, HTML, XML, Flash etc. Yes, it is true that images act as an eye candy but beyond certain limit, you’ll end up spoiling the entire user experience and now your website organic rankings on Google too
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Lower your page download time to gain on Google organic rankings
IMPHAL – Two migrant workers were killed by unidentified gunmen in India’s restive northeastern state of Manipur in the second such incident in the past two days, officials said Thursday. A police spokesperson said bullet riddled bodies of the two daily wage earners were recovered from the Chingmaerong area on the outskirts of the capital Imphal ..
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Two migrant workers killed in Manipur
LONDON – A man who allegedly uploaded a leaked copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine over the Internet just a month before its release has been taken into custody by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in New York. Chiefs of 20th Century Fox, the studio behind the Hugh Jackman starrer, … Original article on : Man taken into custody for Wolverine leak .
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Man taken into custody for Wolverine leak