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Web Platform Installer Released!
If you’ve been to any presentations I’ve done recently you’ve seen how much I love talking about this tool. Very simply the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) is a tool that installs IIS7, extensions, tools, runtimes and applications in a easy to use manner. Read More...
Posted 25 September 09 03:00 by jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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“Microsoft”.“Open Source” == “unhandled exceptions.”
Nick Hodge and I have been talking to our local Open Source communities for the past year and we’ve finally managed to get some traction to hit the road   Sam and Max style in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Microsoft and Open source? Isn’t that Read More...
Posted 15 June 09 02:15 by jorkeo | 1 Comments   
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Old New Series – Cannon PI
Keep watching as Cannon makes life easier for today's web developers using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer.   - jorke Read More...
Posted 07 May 09 03:39 by jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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linux.conf.au
So i attended linux.conf.au (LCA) in Tassie this year, i reckon i was the only person walking around with Windows installed on my machine :) This year LCA was held at the University of Tasmania’s Sandy Bay Campus in Hobart, and you can see key media reports Read More...
Posted 27 January 09 12:38 by jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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Developers Developers Developers – Steve Ballmer in Australia
As part of a whirlwind visit to Sydney early next month, Steve Ballmer will be presenting Microsoft's future vision for developers in the world of software-plus-services. He'll discuss the next wave of technologies just launched at the Professional Developer Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 11:21 by jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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Cat Power - Tomcat on Server 2008 Core with IIS7
EPIC START So this turned out to be much longer than I thought - the basic goal is to utilise two of the coolest features of Window Server 2008 - Core and IIS7. The idea is to create an ultimately low footprint web server on Microsoft Windows Web Server Read More...
Posted 17 September 08 09:51 by jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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DST changes for Australia in 2008!
Does that mean Queensland will have daylight savings time? NOOOO - fades the curtains apparently... Anyway the REST of Australia is making some changes in October - that's 1 month away! - so we all need to update our servers/machines/robots to cope with Read More...
Posted 05 September 08 01:17 by jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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SQL 2008 Released
The final product of the Launch Wave has RTM'd - SQL Server 2008 - with a snazzy new logo:   If you have an MSDN or Technet subscription you can get it now - I'm very excited about one particular version in this version SQL 2008 Web - designed to Read More...
Posted 08 August 08 10:53 by jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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SQL 2005 PHP Driver RTM'd
We've just shipped the released version for the SQL Server 2005 Driver extensions for PHP 5 - if you're running the CTP version make sure you update to this version. Get the bits here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=61BF87E0-D031-466B-B09A-6597C21A2E2A&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted 02 August 08 05:49 by jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft contributing to Open Source
This is why I love working for Microsoft - as Nick Hodge often says "This is not your fathers Microsoft"; Sam Ramji Keynoted at Oscon about 3 very cool things: In short we've submitted code to the ADOdb DAL library to add support for our PHP Read More...
Posted 26 July 08 10:21 by jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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Installing FTP with IIS7 on 2008 Server Core
I had a few questions from an old colleague, Virgil , who had just built a 2008 server core machine and was having issues configuring FTP. Without asking I knew Virgil would be chasing an FTP server that would have some method of secure transport such Read More...
Posted 05 June 08 06:36 by jorkeo | 1 Comments   
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Hosting Days Australia - Coming to a City Near you!
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 Read More...
Posted 30 April 08 10:36 by jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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Hacked Web Applications causing storm - rattling Windows...
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 Read More...
Posted 29 April 08 12:01 by jorkeo | 1 Comments   
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Potential Security Vulnerability for NetworkService / potential new IIS exploit
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 Read More...
Posted 18 April 08 07:25 by jorkeo | 1 Comments   
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HUGE performance increases with PHP on Windows 2008
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. Read More...
Posted 14 April 08 01:54 by jorkeo | 1 Comments   
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