http://jesscoburn.com just general cool geek crap. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:59:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My most popular blog post is about installing Windows 2008 from a USB thumb drive. Over the weekend I decided to upgrade my Laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and used the same instructions to do that upgrade. So the instructions for: Installing Vista from ... http://jesscoburn.com/archives/2009/06/23/installing-windows-7-from-a-usb-thumb-drive/ Windows Hosting has a new look, at AppliedI.net anyway.  Our developers have been working on a new site design for us for quite some time now and yesterday we went live with several homepage changes that reflect the new changes in the works for the appliedi website. Don’t worry though ... http://jesscoburn.com/archives/2009/06/16/appliedi-net-windows-hosting-homepage-revised/ Being a technologist all my life I’ve come to realize one thing: “to be good at what you do you can never stop learning”. (I also think to remain youthful at any age it’s important to never stop learning but that’s another conversation altogether.) With that in mind you’re ... http://jesscoburn.com/archives/2009/05/21/instant-search-and-access-to-great-books/ Tired of trying to find just the right wordpress theme? There’s millions of them to choose from afterall. Would love to create your own but have less artistic talent now than you did in Kindergarten with a box of busted chunks of crayolas? (You know what I’m talking about. First ... http://jesscoburn.com/archives/2009/05/06/the-easy-way-to-create-your-first-wordpress-theme/ While at MIX, I learned about the Microsoft Translator. It’s a website widget you add on your site and allows your visitors to select their preferred language and then translates the page into that language. I had a wordpress plugin at one time that did this but quit using it ... http://jesscoburn.com/archives/2009/05/06/i-speak-your-language-thanks-to-the-microsoft-translator-widget/ Applied Innovations is among only 16 hosters recently nominated for the asp.netPRO Magazine Reader’s Choice awards. The voting ends 4/25 (just days away!). You can vote today by clicking on the image in this post or visiting: http://www.aspnetpro.com/awards/default.asp You’ll find the hosting category on the ... http://jesscoburn.com/archives/2009/04/22/applied-innovations-nominated-for-aspnetpro-magazine-readers-choice-awards/ Today I moved my database from a MySQL 4 database server to a MySQL 5 database server, for no reason other than to move to 5. But I found a ton of tables in my database for various plugins that I knew I was no longer using. In fact, I ... http://jesscoburn.com/archives/2009/03/27/cleaning-out-unused-tables-in-your-wordpress-blog/ PHP on Windows Server is gaining great popularity thanks to Windows Hosts that support PHP like us (Applied Innovations), the work Microsoft and Zend are doing together to make PHP even faster on Windows and the large number of PHP developers that realize Apache represents only a piece of the ... http://jesscoburn.com/archives/2009/02/10/enabling-wp-super-cache-for-wordpress-on-windows-hosting/ I’ve become a huge fan of twittering as I’ve been picking up a bunch of great tips on it. I follow Robert Bowling (fourzerotwo) on twitter (who was one of the devs on COD4 and I play a lot of COD these days) and he posted that he was installing ... http://jesscoburn.com/archives/2009/01/21/installed-tweet-suite-plug-in/ At work and home I have the same setup, dual monitors. I always RDP into my desktop these days instead of installing Outlook, Office, etc at home and I’ve always found myself not working in dual monitor mode because of this when working remotely. Turns out you can ... http://jesscoburn.com/archives/2009/01/14/terminal-services-across-multiple-monitors/