Web Site Outage

Some of you have noticed that my web site has been down for that last couple weeks. The problem arose when I had my ISP enable ASP.NET 2.0 on my domain. As a result of Microsoft only allowing SQL Server connections by default while running in medium trust mode, MySQL and ODBC connections did not work. Although it took a couple of weeks, my ISP finally enabled ODBC connections from ASP.NET. Although I’d prefer to use the .NET provider, I’m pleased that they now support a working method to connect to MySQL from ASP.NET.

Currently, I restored my web site to it’s previous working order. Eventually, I plan to implement some of the new ASP.NET 2.0 features. For now, I’m glad to have my site back.

January 14th, 2006  Web Site   Tags: asp.net, home page, programming, more...

PHP 5 Released, New Tools from Microsoft

PHP 5 was released, and if that wasn’t good enough, Microsoft is planning to release some swank development tools for ASP.NET. Also, they have a lite version of SQL Server, called SQL Express, that is to compete with the likes of MySQL but with fewer license restrictions (supposedly) than MSDE. Finally, they are also developing a lite version of Visual Studio, called Visual Web Developer, that is a supported follow-up to ASP.NET Web Matrix.

July 13th, 2004  Web - Development   Tags: asp.net, microsoft, mysql, php, programming, Software, sql, www, more...

Master Pages in ASP.NET

I found a most excellent article explaining how to create page templates (aka master pages) with ASP.NET. It’s pretty simple to use. Support for Master Pages is scheduled to be included with ASP.NET 2.0, but until then this server control works quite well.

• ASP.NET Master Pages

June 11th, 2004  Web - Development   Tags: asp.net, master pages, programming, www, more...

Java to Release Web Application Development Tool

Finally, Sun is finally understanding one of the reasons people like to develop applications with Microsoft technologies so much – a decent IDE. They are working on a new tool called Project Rave which is set to allow developers to quickly create Java-based web applications like Microsoft’s Web Matrix.

Now if they could only work on making Tomcat less horrible to use…

December 3rd, 2003  Software   Tags: java, microsoft, programming, Software, tomcat, more...

New Job

Umm…I had a change of heart (again) about going back to school, but this time it’s a good reason. I was recently accepted for a programmer position at a company called Entropy Multimedia in Eau Claire, WI. Sweeeet. The best part is I get to be with Wanda, which rocks.

December 5th, 2002  Jobs   Tags: eau claire, employment, Jobs, programming, more...