Finally, Microsoft has released an URL Rewrite module for IIS 7! It’s taken HOW MANY YEARS?
Now, if your hosting provider installs it, you can use “Pretty URLs” with Wordpress, and many others.
How long have we wanted the equivalent of Linux .htaccess rewrite rules?
You can read more about it at http://iis.net
The presentation: Broadcasting Your Meetings, October 25th, 2008 at the FACUG fall conference in Clearwater.
Tom Kiehl presented a slide show and live demonstration using a robotic Sony EVI-D30 camera using the Ustream.tv free broadcasting service.
Attached is the powerpoint slide show, Streaming live 
I hope y’all are taking advantage of the Thirty Day Challenge hosted by Ed Dale.
Even if you don’t “get it all”, you’re still going to learn a lot.
I’ve compiled a list of links and added some to those found in the 30DC forums on a static page here Thirty Day Challenge Links (and more).
Also we recorded our Internet Development SIG meeting that was broadcast on Ustream.tv on August 12, 2008
A number of our meetings are broadcast live. You can view them here.
This years Thirty Day Challenge Started today, Aug 1 2008.
It’s not too late to get started! Read about the TDC.
Best of luck with your 30DC!
There’s no January meeting since it falls on January 1, 2008.
See you in February!
Here’s more powerpoint slides from the SIG meetings.
In December (4th, 7pm), we’ll do an all-skate on where we’re at with C#.
We’ll try some real world samples, beating the heck out of some Classes and other review topics.
See you there.
Finally, Microsoft has announced a product to help protect you Intellectual Property (IP), not just theirs!
Read about Microsoft’s Code protection technology here.
It’s not your father’s obfuscation. It’s called Secure Virtual Machine (SVM), purportedly to be a one-way transformation.
If it’s really secure, then perhaps my customers may embrace the Dot Net platform, because up until now, obfuscation was insufficient to prevent reverse engineering.
Microsoft had supplied a lame version of an Obfuscator along with Visual Studio, but if you wanted the (almost) good stuff, you were out $1000 bucks per developer seat! That;s more then VS itself.
So it’s about time. hope it’s for real. the DotNet platform has so much promise, protecting IP has been what’s stopping it’s adoption for commercial softer.
Now… we have to find out what the commercial version costs. The free download is for evaluation only, it only will do three functions (boo hiss!)
Tuesday, September 11, 7PM the Internet Development SIG will be host to a Internet Business Roundtable Discussion.
While all are invited, this roundtable will be of special interest for those
who have been taking June Hollister’s Online Business Classes. The
objectives are:
To share what is and isn’t working for each participant
To critique each other’s sites (if so desired)
To elicit ideas on improvements
Other brainstorming topics
This is a Roundtable, not a class or course. We will view sites live online
of those who want to participate so that the group can discuss.
Participants are welcome to bring their laptops to take notes, and in case
your site isn’t published to the web yet. Please feel free to bring
anything: handouts, notes, questions, etc. that may be of benefit to the
group.
Click here for a handy form you can fill out before the meeting.
We explored a lot of territory on Aug 14th, however, I was a bit disappointed with the sparse attendance. Serious webmasters need a maintainable and successful web site, whether it’s a blog, a conventional site or a combination. The material covered, while not always appearing relevant, is in one way or another. I hope that those who attended were able to find at least a bit of take-home information that will better their sites. As promised, here are the PowerPoint slides from the session.
Tom Kiehl
