Don’t Be Fooled April Fools Websites for 2011

 Behold... The Internet!  1 Response »
Apr 012011
 

Another year has come and gone and we are once again at that time of the year where various websites will try and trick or fool you. I am of course talking about the tradition of April Fools celebrated by many websites across the internet and showcased here in my unofficial and incomplete list of April’s Fools sites 2011. This list will be ongoing as I find more throughout the day. Feel free to add to this list using the comments. First up is the always pleasing crowd favorite Google. This year Google is introducing a new service to Gmail called Gmail Motion. Want to work for Google?  They have a new job position open for Autocompleter. Google has a new Plugin called Comic Sans [Read More...]

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The Search For an ASP.NET Web Host Better Than GoDaddy

 Web Hosting  No Responses »
Mar 132011
 

Recently I became very aware of the insufficiency of GoDaddy’s web hosting.   So, I went in search of a new place to host my various websites and needed somewhere that met my many needs for ASP.NET 4.0 and WordPress web hosting.  Currently I am working on an  ASP.NET 4.0 website that is using Forms Authentication. I had added in email account validation and password reset functionality.  It was working greatly locally and I had thought that it was working fine deployed to my hosting until I actually tested it. I quickly realized that no emails were being sent out and that the application was throwing an exception when trying to send out an email.  So I started looking into the exceptions being thrown and then [Read More...]

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Google Gets More Social With New Google User Profiles

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Mar 102011
 

On Wednesday March 2nd, 2011 Google released new public profiles for existing Google users. Besides a new URL there are a lot of new sleek differences that make Google’s User Profiles much different than they were before. Now for those of you who are saying “Wait, Google User’s have public profiles?”, they do, only if you’ve created one already. If you created one previously your profile was located at www.google.com/profiles/{username]. Previously profiles were very simple, with some pictures and then three tabs. On the first tab you listed a name of places where you’ve lived, went to school and then worked. Aside from that you could add some contact information and then some links. The new profiles are located in a different location, they are [Read More...]

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WordPress Performance Loss on GoDaddy’s Windows Grid Hosting

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Feb 192011
 

Recently I switched to GoDaddy’s Windows Grid hosting from their Windows Shared hosting to get support for ASP.NET 4.0 Framework. All my WordPress sites began having a 10x worse performance than they previously had. This is my warning to anyone who is looking for the same.

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