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Rackspace: Two Weeks left On Our December Offers

We take on the day-to-day burdens that bog down your IT department, so it can get back to focusing on the important things. That means that you'll never have to implement, update, troubleshoot, patch, monitor, administer, backup data or worry again. That's what managed hosting means at Rackspace.

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/1218.html

12.18.07

No Set Approach For Site Usability Developers

I've been tracking recent news and following discussions pertaining to web site planning, user experience design, and usability testing that are good reminders that there's no such thing as a cozy, orderly, agreed upon approach to any of those things.

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/1214.html

12.14.07

Rackspace: Two reasons you should host with us before 2008

11.13.07

Removing Whitespace From Your Pages With ASP.NET

Ok, this is not new. I've also written about this a few times in the past. The thing is that removing whitespace...

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/1026.html

10.26.07

Restricting CFAJAXProxy To Certain Methods

A user asked this about the cfajaxproxy tag: Any way around CFAJAXProxy exposing all remote component functions to JavaScript?

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/1019.html

10.19.07

7 Things Your Websites Will Need

Ektron CMS400.NET lets you do everything you need to do on the Web and everything you want to do... all with just one application.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/1017.html

10.17.07

Using ColdFusion.navigate Instead Of Bindings

A user pinged me during MAX (what's wrong with you guys, didn't I warn you about questions??!? ;) with a problem.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/1005.html

10.05.07

Serving Up CFIMages Via Image Tags

Todd Sharp recently pinged me about an interesting problem. He was working with Images generated in ColdFusion 8...

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0914.html

09.14.07

How Fanatical Support(TM) can work for your business

No more worrying about web hosting uptime. No more spending your time, energy and resources trying to stay on top of things like patching, updating, monitoring, backing up data and the like. And no more wondering if there's a better way to go about it all.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0823.html

08.23.07

Running FxCop & The Quirks

Earlier today I did a code maintenance session on BlogEngine.NET using the excellent FxCop tool.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0817.html

08.17.07

Build Your Own Online Community

Ektron CMS400.net lets you do more than just what you need to do on the web, it also lets you do everything you want to do on the web...

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0815.html

08.15.07

Where Does The Mysterious Method Added To Your CFCs Come From?

If you've been working with CFCs in ColdFusion 8, you may come across a mysterious method.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0810.html

08.10.07

Improve Site Performance With YSlow

If you haven't already heard, Yahoo! has released YSlow for Firebug, a Firefox plugin that analyzes your site for ways to speed things up in terms of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0727.html

07.27.07

A Hosting Environment for the Environment

Working with partners like NativeEnergy and The Green Grid, Rackspace is diligently working toward a goal of being 100% Green. We know it's not something that can happen overnight, but by addressing the problem and educating our customers and employees, we are taking the first step toward a cleaner tomorrow.

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0726.html

07.26.07

A Var Scope Screw Up

I'm a big fan of sharing mistakes as I figure any mistake I make I'm sure others have as well.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0713.html

07.13.07

Track The Life Cycle of Your Website Visitors

Ektron CMS400.net lets you do more than just what you need to do on the web, it also lets you do everything you want to do on the web...

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0711.html

07.11.07

Zend Framework 1.0 Due Out Monday

It's based on PHP 5, limiting its use by the majority of PHP developers who don't like/understand OO programming, or simply, are happy with PHP 4 thank you very much.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0629.html

06.29.07

Keep your servers & your business up and running

It's our business to keep your servers and your business up and running. That's what Fanatical Support is all about — everyone at Rackspace working for you 24x7x365. Call it one more layer of redundancy, or call it the best support you'll ever have. Either way, it gives you greater peace of mind day in and day out.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0613.html

06.13.07

Google Developer Day Kicks Off Down-under

From down-under... google announces Google Gears an open source technology for creating offline web applications.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0531.html

05.31.07

Monitoring Your Server's Availability and Your Visitors' Website Experience

We've bundled together Rackspace Platinum Monitoring and Urchin Web Analytics Software so you can now have two easy and thorough ways to watch over the performance of your Rackspace web environment. And they're from two completely different perspectives — monitoring your server's availability and reporting on your visitors' website experience.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0521.html

05.21.07

Cf.Objective() - Recap Of Day Three

Paul Kenney - Test Driven Development. Talked about the downsides of traditional testing (code first, test later).

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0507.html

05.07.07

Is There A Common Ground For SEO And Web Development?

I think it's safe to say that everyone in the web site optimization business has experienced that unfortunate situation with a client where those responsible for...

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0427.html

04.27.07

Have .NET Developers Grown Up?

About 5 years ago when the .NET Framework was released, it was the big new story and got a lot of attention by the blogosphere and technical magazines - both good and bad - and continued to do so for some years.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0413.html

04.13.07

Think about servers inside and outside the box

Starting with Fanatical Support™, Rackspace is about one thing and one thing only—supporting you. It goes way beyond just your box or configuration. What's outside the box, our people, technical expertise, Zero-Downtime Network™, data centers and guarantees all exist to make your IT life easier.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0411.html

04.11.07

Limiting API Calls In A Web 2.0 World

Programmable Web is carrying a great article on limiting the activity of a web 2.0 API with real world examples of how they work.

ttp://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0406.html

04.06.07

Adding Search Capabilities To A Blog Engine

The in-site search feature has been under development for a few days by Claus Christensen. Claus has been developing his own search engine for the last couple of years, so he knows a lot about search algorithms and performance.

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0330.html

03.30.07

How To Tell If A Header Has Been Set In ColdFusion

Here is an interesting question - how do you determine if something has been added to the response header? I needed to know this because of an bug in ColdFire where cflocation stopped working when ColdFire was used.

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0316.html

03.16.07

Rackspace Managed Hosting - March Reduced Price

03.14.07

DevWeek Conference: Day 1 Recap

Day 1 is over, and all in all it was very good. It started off with Jeff Prosise's keynote speech, he is an excellent orator for 1.5 hours the majority of the lecture theater was....

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0228.html

02.28.07

Another Step Forward With Fusebox

Well it is taking me a bit longer than I would like, but I am getting more excited about Fusebox and don't want to lose too much steam in my learning of the framework.

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0216.html

02.16.07

Get the Full Functionality of Exchange, Minus the Worry of Supporting It

Managed Exchange is more than a technology solution. It's a service solution, too — designed to be as simple and as flexible as possible. This is what happens when the world's most widely used messaging and collaboration tool meets the power of Fanatical Support™.

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0214.html

02.14.07

ASP.NET: Working With Query Strings

In many cases we write our ASP.NET logic around query strings in order to show the right product page or what not. The first thing we do is to check if the query string exists in the first place before we start using it.

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0201.html

02.01.07

Preserve your site's uptime and integrity

Thinking your web environment is secure and knowing it's secure are two entirely different things. With your data, your site's uptime and your business' reputation all hanging in the balance, thinking your security is adequate just isn't good enough. You have to know, without a doubt, that from every angle everything is secure.

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0130.html

01.30.07

ASP.NET: Easily Block DoS Attacks

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are becoming a more and more common way to bring websites and servers down. They are very easy to do and pretty hard to protect against, which is why they are so popular.

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0119.html

01.19.07

ASP.NET: Parse Controls Dynamically

Most of the primitive types in the CLR have a Parse method that takes a string and parses it into its own data type. I could be DateTime.Parse(string) or Int.Parse(string) etc.

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0105.html

01.05.07

Download: Fully Integrated Web Site Analytics

Ektron CMS400.net lets you do more than just what you need to do on the web, it also lets you do everything you want to do on the web... all with one application

http://www.webdevelopernews.com/2007/0103.html

01.03.07