The Role of an IT Manager

Well it’s been a while since I wrote something, and even longer since I wrote something management-related. So I need to play a bit of catchup. Programmer To Manager Before […]

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Timestamp File in Linux

I’ve been using Webmin to manage my Linux server, but I wanted the backup files to be timestamped so that subsequent backups didn’t overwrite them. Since I didn’t see an […]

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ASP.NET or LAMP for Web Development?

This was inspired by a form post over in startupping, where people were discussing doing projects in ASP.NET or PHP (specifically, LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). I do both […]

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HTTP Compression for ASP.NET Sites

I’ve been having some issues with a hosting provider getting HTTP Compression set up correctly for ASP.NET pages in IIS. It’s not hard to set up, but you need to […]

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Web Tools for Developers, Developers, Developers

Brian Benzinger put together a big list of developer-oriented sites listing things about project collaboration, code control, bug/issue tracking, etc.. Basecamp is of course on there, but I saw a bunch […]

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Zend Studio Standard is Only $99

Ok Zend Studio Standard is only $99, not “hundreds of dollars” like I said before. It comes with debugging, code-completion, & some other stuff. So maybe it’s not a bad […]

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Connect to Team Foundation Server Using Visual Studio Professional

Let’s say you already have Visual Studio 2005 Professional, but you now want to be able to connect to Team Foundation Server from within Visual Studio. Let’s say you have […]

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