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Microsoft's PHP initiative: This is interesting. Microsoft has recently released the second technical preview release of FastCGI for IIS, a new component for Microsoft's Web server platform. This release is available immediately for download to Windows Vista, IIS including IIS 6.0 in Windows 2003 Server and IIS 5.1 in ...

This place saved our necks yesterday (at work, not Gadgetopia). If you ever find yourself working with an IIS box and run into this little monkey: The server failed to load application '/blah'. The error was 'The server process could not be started because the configured identity is incorrect. Check ...

Aprelium Technologies - Home: Bummed out that Windows XP Home doesn't come with a copy of IIS? Need to develop at home? Well, never fear with this Web server, and this add-in, you're back in business. It's not going to set any speed records, but it's handy for development.

Wired's Mac blog passes on an interesting post from a forum: I went to the HERA particle accelerator in Hamburg, Germany [...] and what made me smile was seeing more old macs than ever before, all being used as the backbone of controlling every aspect of the collider - absolutely ...

Funny you should bring up Vermeer Technologies. While trying to beat a Visual Studio web project into working yesterday, I did a little network sniffing to find out what FrontPage and Visual Studio actually do to make things work. I'd always thought it was WebDAV that made them go, but ...

Note: This entry changed quite a bit in the 24 hours after it was published. I discovered a lot of stuff I'm ashamed to say I didn't know, I posted several updates to the end of the post, and I eventually changed the title. Quick survey: if you are a ...

2003: Year of Apache: Apache kicked butt last year. 2003 was the Year of Apache. If Time magazine had a server-of-the-year award the cover would be featuring a feather. Since October 2002 market share has grown from 53% to 64%, a 20% gain while Microsoft IIS, its nearest competitor has ...

Blogging: Design Your Own Weblog Application from Scratch Using ASP.NET, JavaScript, and OLE DB: "It seems like everyone wants a blog these daysâ I know I did. But I couldn't find any pre-built ASP.NET blog code with the features I wanted, so I built my own." I found this ...

So I'm in New Orleans at this convention with a little Toshiba laptop running XP Home. To my horror, I have no development platform (XP Home won't run IIS). That hasn't stopped me from coding as I have EditPlus and I can upload from dial-up the hotel, but still. This ...

So you want to give blogging a go at your company, but you dread the thought of getting sign off on new software, setting everything up, handling permissions issues, etc. What a huge pain, especially when you have no idea if anyone is going to even like the concept. Never ...