Another event down REMIX08 - two cities on week - what a blast. Check out Michael Kordahi's wrap up of the event -  Shane Morris doing the artwork, all seemed very Penn and Teller to me. err and excuse my shaky hands, i was TIRED! Both venues were...

reMIX is back this year bigger and faster than ever. I know this is old news but I'm running a little behind at the moment. Check out the website and Register now for a bargain price of $199 (Inc GST) - we are doing 1 day in 2 cities: Sydney    ...

via Christian This years Hosting Days is "Fast Tracking Your Success with FastLane" in a city somewhere close to you, unless you are in Darwin or Alice Springs or Cameron's Corner .... Phil and I have the first track, which is the fun track...

For the past few days a "Cyber attack" has been taking place and according to internetnews.com : "number of infected IIS servers at 282,000. Less than a day later, security firm F-Secure wrote its own blog entry , putting the infestation...

Important heads up with regards to a potential privilege escalation issue when running under NetworkService – which we all know is the IIS default.... But also note that it requires native code or full trust .NET. Hosting Providers with Shared Hosting...

One of our local developers Dallas J Clark (Brisbane local) blogged about an article that shows PHP with a 130% performance increase on Windows Server 2008 - and of course there have been a few comments asking about the metrics of the comparison etc....

Attended a great presentation at MIX by Tito Leverette Web Platform Architect Evangelist aka Hosting Guy from Atlanta and Rob Cameron Developer Evangelist aka Dev Guy: Bring Hosters and Developers together with IIS7 I thought they did a great...

So I'm in vegas at MIX08 and have spent ages typing a post about some awesome new media delivery technologies that have been released when I noticed Chris Knowlton - Senior Product Manager and the King of Windows Media Streaming had already done it! ...

Launch of SQL 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and most importantly Windows Server 2008 ! I'm part of the launch event in the server track - presenting the session : It's a click and go world { accelerate it! } Where I spend my time looking at configuring Windows...

and my brain is officially full - lots of awesome stuff to talk about. But straight back to work. Now preparing for the Heroes Happen Launch - be sure to register @ http://www.heroeshappen2008.com.au/ here are the dates: Sydney: Thu 28 Feb Melbourne ...

the shear brain power of having 6000 geeks in one location with thousands of session on the coolest technology arround.. how to describe.. its amazing and my brain is now full! Had to take break last night so after a quick run around @ 'asking the experts...

Well I'm in Seattle for our internal tech conference, TechReady with heap of other aussie DPE folks; Jeffa , Kleefy , Barnesy , Coatesy (visiting before going to the Office Developers Conference), Rog , Nils and of course Frank is omnipresent :) Really...

Cam told me about this blog a little ago and I've been following it so see what they're up to. I quite like the slogan - memoirs of a goldfish - make sure you blog it before you forget it forever.. although according to wikipedia - the myth of a goldfish...

HOORAAYY! I've had many people asking me when Windows Server 2008 was going to RTM. So here it is: Windows Server 2008 has officially RTM'd!!!!! Looking under MSDN/Technet subscriber downloads you can get it now: Huge congratulations to the Windows Server...

A brand new IIS blog and a shiny new tool in tech preview. Check out the tech preview of the  Web Deployment Tool from the awesome IIS Team. This new tool is designed with migration from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0. Get it, try it, tell me what breaks, so...

The guys at Emantra pinged me today with a project we've been talking about for a while, and I'm stoked these guys have pulled this off! Go to their site http://iis7forheroes.com/ and get yourself some of: The first SHARED IIS7.0 web hosting in...

(ok, that's pseudo code above and is never intended to run - just illustrate concept :) ) If you're a like me and prefer typing your commands into the run box or start bar, in Windows 2003 to connect to the console of a server using remote administration...

This is very interesting and fairly comprehensive list of basic operational questions to ask when building the infrastructure on your web facing project - from the Microsoft.com operations team . I love the breakdown of availability, this is something...

Check out the story of the Lone Server , the last Windows 2003 server in the Microsoft.com web farm. Such a sad story...   Make you make him your friend on Facebook he's feeling pretty lonely. Are there anymore Lone Server 's out there? let me know...

Just finished doing a presentation with the Bronwen and John from SoulSolutions to a group of secondary school teachers in the Faculty of Information Technology at QUT - they did some rocking demos around data management in Virtual Earth and an awesome...

Well it all depends on what you are cramming into your request pipeline! With IIS7's modular architecture you have the ability to load only what you need to run. What does this mean - well let's look at the footprint of a worker process that has all default...

The entire Microsoft.com web server farm - 80+ server - is running Windows 2008 using IIS7.0 for their staging and pre-production services. That is a HUGE effort and those guys are really eating the dogfood trying all that. Note that I did say staging...

This is by far the quickest and easiest way to install IIS7 on Windows Server 2008, and even better - you do it via the command line! To install IIS7 on a brand spanking new build of Windows Server 2008 simply do the following: For a default install ...

via Scottgu Now this is definitely a step in the right direction! - jorke

Shout out for Dave Lemphers who's running Dynamics Dev days with what looks like a scorching agenda. In Dave's words: "No marketing fluff, no sales spiels, no PowerPoint (I've ditched that in favor of good ole' fashioned flip charts! and talkin'...