Over the last few years, SEO has grown into an expertise all its own. Everyone wants their sites to be “SEO friendly”, or optimized for search engines. Until now, creating dynamic sites using ASP.Net web forms that were SEO friendly was a daunting and tedious task. Now, in ASP.Net 4.0 and...
Routing with ASP.Net 4.0 - SEO - real simple
Sunday, May 16 2010 - .Net
Microsoft and Facebook ban together to fend off Google
Thursday, April 22 2010 - Twin Cipher News
Microsoft and Facebook create a smart partnership in efforts to crush Google Docs. "In addition to all this, Facebook and Microsoft are collaborating to kill Google Docs. (And to give Microsoft's online version of MS Office a chance.) Docs.com is Microsoft's online version of Office. It will be...
Windows End of Life Support
Saturday, March 20 2010 - Twin Cipher News
Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server are approaching 10 years since their launch and both products will go out of support on July 13, 2010 . Windows XP was launched back in 2001. While support for the product will continue, Service Pack 2 will go out of support on July 13, 2010 . From that...
VB.Net - We should all B# (be sharp)
Wednesday, March 10 2010 - .Net
Over the past few years, really since the .Net framework was introduced, there has been much debate and false statements and beliefs surrounding the various .Net languages. I probably should have classified this as a rant, but I have legitimate concerns about how one language is treated differently than...
Windows 7 is a Parent’s Best Friend
Tuesday, February 23 2010 - Twin Cipher News
Windows 7 is a parent’s best friend After receiving a laptop that was older than my 5 year old daughter, a Thinkpad T-41 1.4ghz and 1gig ram, I was told that I could not should not put Windows 7 on the machine, because it was to old and it didn’t meet the recommended requirements. Being the...
Facebook Business Essentials
Sunday, February 14 2010 - Social Media
Facebook Essentials for Businesses Do I need to have a Facebook account? Should I create a fan page to promote my business? These are questions that are commonly asked by my clients, especially ones that are just starting a business, or have recently rebranded or freshened up their web site. The answer...
Boxing and Unboxing
Monday, February 08 2010 - .Net
Boxing and Unboxing Are you moving? Need a rental truck? Oh, you’re talking about “Boxing” as in converting value types to reference types. An example of boxing: 'Implicit boxing VB Dim x as Int16 = 5 Dim obj as Object = x //Implicit boxing C# Int16 x = 5; object obj = x; 'Explicit...
Why Tiny URL's Are A Security Concern
Sunday, February 07 2010 - Web Security
I'm tiny, I'm little, but I am also dangerous Most blogs and social networks like to compress Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to outbound web addresses. One company that offer this service is TinyURL . Services such as these take a long url like " somedomain.com/something/somethingelse/somepage...
Coke Partners With Posterous for NCAA Fan Experience
Sunday, February 07 2010 - Twin Cipher News
Coke has partnered with a new player in the social media circle, Posterous. Coke is one of Posterous' first "clients" and will put the Posterous brand in front of millions. See how Coke is using Posterous for it's "Dept of Fannovation" Posterous , unlike Twitter, is not a micro-blogging...
Windows7 vs. Mac Snow Leopard
Saturday, February 06 2010 - Twin Cipher News
I'm more secure, no, I'm more secure Is the Mac more secure than the PC? Many experts agree that Mac users are less likely to get a virus, but, there is a catch. The percentage of people using either a Mac or PC (not including other OS's e.g. Linsux) varies quite a bit, as do the polling/survey techniques...