http://salmonsites.com Tips and tricks to web site development Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:07:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About two weeks ago I started out on a little project for one of my web sites that I figured would be rather trivial.  All I wanted to do was provide a way for my customers to put a search box on their own web sites and have the search ... http://salmonsites.com/2008/11/05/cross-domain-issue-json-to-the-rescue/ Today Microsoft has officially announced their cloud computing platform and strategy.  They made the announcement at their Professional Developers Conference and also put up a new web site for Azure Services Platform at Azure.com.  If the term "cloud computing" is foreign to you, don't despair because your not alone.  The ... http://salmonsites.com/2008/10/27/microsoft-azure-services-platform/ System.Transaction is the latest incarnation of transactions from Microsoft.  It first showed up on the scene with the release of .NET Framework 2.0.  Today, however, was my first interaction with it.  As with most things I do, I happened to be trying to do something that apparently no one else ... http://salmonsites.com/2008/09/30/systemtransactions-and-legacy-code/ Microsoft's Enterprise Library has been around for a few years now.  The current release is version 4.0 and you can download it from CodePlex - patterns & practices Enterprise Library.  Enterprise Library is a set of "application blocks" that address some of the common, technical services that are often needed ... http://salmonsites.com/2008/09/25/enterprise-library/ The first question you may ask is "what's a web proxy". The answer is quite simple.  A web proxy is a web site that you can go to and use to access other web sites as if you were on the web server.  It is a proxy for you.  So, ... http://salmonsites.com/2008/09/04/free-web-proxy-list/ I have managed to work around the issue of not having mod_rewrite on my IIS hosting account. Since I can use by ASP.NET and PHP on a single site, I took advantage of the free UrlRewriter library and web.config settings. It's actually pretty cool.  I have a new Health & ... http://salmonsites.com/2008/07/24/mod_rewrite-workaround/ Once again I have run smack into the reality that no hosting provider is perfect. While I have been quite happy with my Windows based DailyRazor hosting account I have just discovered an issue that is really bumming me out.  With DailyRazor I can use both PHP and ASP.NET on ... http://salmonsites.com/2008/07/24/no-mod_rewrite-on-iis/ It's probably not fair to compare Microsoft Visual Studio to Eclipse. Visual Studio, for example, is a full fledged product from Microsoft that is supported and comes with a hefty price tag.  Eclipse, on the other hand, is an open source tool that is support by the community and is ... http://salmonsites.com/2008/07/09/visual-studio-vs-eclipse/ I have Xamp installed on my local PC. That gives me a working Apache web server that lets me test out my PHP based web sites before I publish them. This has been working great until I needed to utilize mod_rewrite. I had created a subdirectory on my local web ... http://salmonsites.com/2008/06/28/getting-mod_rewrite-working-on-pc/ If you've read my blog before you know that I have gone through quite a few different web hosting providers over the years. It seems that as my web sites expand in sophistication I run up against some limitation with my hosting company. A few months ago I thought ... http://salmonsites.com/2008/06/09/my-new-favorite-web-hosting-company/