Windows Web Hosting, Web Technologies, etc
Archive for February, 2007
A blast from the past
Feb 10th
Several years ago I created the little graphic ufo you see here. It’s actually a file from coreldraw like 2.0 or so. I took the image, put a little colored blur on the lights, made them rotate with using gifanimator and then published it on my site.
A couple years ago I saw the image posted on someone’s website. Turns out they purchased it on a shareware images cd from a computer show for $20 with a compilation of “royalty free graphics”. Thing is I never gave anyone permission to distribute my image and in fact I probably couldn’t as it’s not really ‘my’ image. How’d I know it was mine? The gif comments in the image shows it was created with the trial version of gif animator (same trial I used in fact) and it was the same small section animated.
PHP 5.2.1 for Windows Lives
Feb 10th
Yes, it’s official, PHP 5.2.1 is now available for download as per this article at mvolo.com.
What’s so exciting about 5.2.1?
Performance, BABY! Microsoft has been working with Zend to make PHP “rock solid” on Windows as well as working on a new FastCGI implementation.
From Mike’s blog:
You will also notice that the PHP 5.2.1 release contains an additional set of Windows binaries labelled “non-thread-safe”. These binaries are compiled without thread safety, which provides an additional performance boost for PHP when running in single-threaded envrionments like CGI and FastCGI. Be sure to download these binaries and try them out with the IIS FastCGI TP2.
What’s this mean for me and you? Well we’re running FastCGI today on our free IIS7 beta servers where you’ll be able to take advantage of this. In the next few days we should have 5.2.1 deployed to the shared servers. We’re holding off a bit longer to deploy FastCGI on the production servers but it hopefully shouldn’t be much longer before it’s ready for production.
You can download PHP 5.2.1 from php.net here: http://www.php.net/downloads
ASP.NET Code Camp Sponsorship
Feb 10th
Today, Applied Innovations sponsored the ASP.NET developer code camp as a way to give back to the developer community. Organized by the FlaDotNet Usergroup, a local ASP.NET users group. Turn out for the code camp was amazing with almost 600 developers showing up to share information on topics such as:
- ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0, The new Lego Mindstorm and .Net Robotics and ofcourse, everything .NET related.
As the local leader in ASP.NET hosting, the Applied Innovations booth was extremely popular.
To promote the code camp we setup a special offer just for code camp participants offering 3 extra months free, a free SQL database and free domain registration. In addition to the special promotion we also gave away a year of VPS hosting.
IIS7 Beta Hosting Released
Feb 10th
This week Applied Innovations officially launched IIS7 hosting. We’re offering hosting on the Beta of Longhorn / IIS7 as part of the Microsoft Early Adopter Program (Actually, I think we’re early Early Adopters as I believe only 2 other companies are offering IIS7 beta hosting today). Unlike the other hosting providers that are offering beta hosting only to their existing customers, Applied Innovations is taking it up a notch and offering beta hosting to anyone that’s interested in getting a sneak peek at IIS7. So if you haven’t signed up for your IIS7 beta hosting account yet, now would be a good time to do so, http://www.appliedi.net/iis7-hosting/.
ASP.NET AJAX Hosting Support launched
Feb 8th
The past week was a big week for Applied Innovations, the ASP.NET team finally set ASP.NET AJAX (formerly Atlas) as RTM and as a result we released full support for it.
I’ve been a big fan of AJAX for a long time and in fact, it’s used in my blog theme here with the search box. Ofcourse my blog is done in PHP but the concepts are the same.
You can see our Press Release on ASP.NET AJAX hosting over at PRweb: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/2/emw502149.htm
I point out emediawire because some many of the other news sources chop up the PR into what fits best. What’s so great about AppliedI offering ASP.NET AJAX hosting? It’s the great hosting promotion we’re offering with it. We’re including 3 free months of hosting and a FREE SQL2005 database with new signups. Pretty nice offer honestly.
You can learn more about asp.net ajax from our site at http://www.appliedi.net/aspnet-hosting/ajax-hosting.html (and also get details on the promotion).
Looks like Brad Abrams picked up on our offering of AJAX support too.
In fact, looks like we’ve created quite a buzz around our offering.
