Reddnet Scribbles

If you are a developer using Windows Vista, you are may be a tad annoyed by the lack of a built-in SMTP server. I was too, but after I found Antix SMTP Server for Developers, I was actually grateful that Microsoft didn't deliver a built-in option.

The Antix SMTP server has become one of those utilities that I just "can't live without" and it is a whole lot better for developers than any other SMTP server I've ever used.

The reason may suprise you though.... it's because the Antix SMTP server can't actually send emails.

Confused? Read on...

  

For years I've been getting my ass-kicked with several of my asp.net sites. For reasons that remained unknown to me for several years, whenever I'd try to login to one of these applications from opera, opera would just fail to login. 

There would be no error message. You'd type in your user and password, click the login button, the page would refresh, but you'd simply not be logged in.

Finally, I have discovered the cause and a solution to this annoying problem! 

As I posted last week, I am no longer hosting my sites with webhost4life. Once upon a time webhost4life offered a fantastic service at a reasonable price, but over the last few years I've grown increasingly annoyed with them. 

Instead, I've moved my hosting over to ReliableSite.net. So, I thought I'd spend a little time describing my experience with both providers for the benefit of anyone else that might be considering either hosting provider.

For 4 years, reddnet has been hosted by Webhost4life, but over the last two years I've been increasingly unhappy with them. So I've moved on to a new provider, ReliableSite.net . I'll write up a full review after I've had a while to really get to know the new provider...

Last night, a young man claiming to be a U.S. soldier threatened to "hurt" me because he disliked an opinion I had expressed in a conversation with someone else.

In most "conflicts", especially ones that don't quite go to physical blows, there is always a lot of "stuff" that you "wished" you'd said.

While I can't go back and change the confrontation now, the internet does let me say what I should have said after the fact.

So listen up Captain Hypocrite!

Due to some unfortunate circumstances, I no longer have archives of the old CSK and GCN mod files.

I do have downloads for full release versions of the CSK and  GCN.

If anyone out there still has a copy of the old mods, I'd appreciate it if you would contact me and let me know. I'd love to continue hosting the downloads here for those few who still use the CSK or GCN platforms.  

I frequently take on custom software projects... you know, someone needs a web application to do X, Y, and Z and there just isn't anything already on the market that does the trick.

But the truth about software development is that it takes a lot of time and is very expensive. So it isn't unusual that I'm  asked to design the app in such a way that it can be re-sold to other people that might have similar needs.

In other words, one client will bankroll the costs of the custom software, but they'd like the option to recoup those up-front costs by re-selling later.

If you get asked to do software like this, here is my advise...

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Google's new Chrome browser, which I reviewed earlier this week, is planned as a platform on which Google will build out more ambitious web applications...

Part 3 in my roundup of the new breed of web browsers. In this installment I'll discuss the beta version of Internet Explorer 8...