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1&1 – Unlimited bandwidth hosting
Web host 1&1 just announced that they’re lifting the bandwidth caps on all their hosting plans. The previous caps were high enough that they rarely affected most customers, but anyone who was ever “slash-dotted” will appreciate this move. Image via CrunchBase As you may have noticed, I use 1&1 to host this site, and I [...]
Best. Logger. Ever.
Logging is one of those “system” components that always seems to either be left out or way over-engineered (glares at Microsoft‘s Enterprise Application Blocks). Today, I’d like to introduce you to a logging framework that’s everything it needs to be and nothing it doesn’t. The .Net Logging Framework from The Object Guy is powerful enough [...]
NDepend review
Introduction There’s no question that Visual Studio is a class-leading tool for building large applications. The IDE is incredibly helpful to coders, and the .Net framework lends itself to managing dependencies among components and classes in large applications. In addition, Visual Studio is designed to be extended by third-party tools that can make it even [...]
Zemanta is a blogger’s best friend
Shortly before I switched this blog to WordPress, I learned about a new tool called Zemanta. It was supposed to provide context-sensitive links and images, chosen dynamically to be relevant to the work in progress. It sounded pretty cool, and I tried to set it up under Drupal, but couldn’t quite get it done. After [...]
Drive Backup 9.0 Express – a really bad start
I’m slowly weaning myself off Vista on my home PC and onto Ubuntu, because Vista just continues to disappoint me day after day. I’ve pared my Vista install down to just the basics now, and I’m setting it up to dual-boot to either Vista or Ubuntu. Before I go messing with boot sectors, though, I [...]
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