Something I’ve never blogged on but often take advantage of are the Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guides.

Mohammed Ali was famous for the ‘power of intention.’ He would psyche out an opponent by telling them that they were going to get knocked out in the third round.  He would be concentrating on meeting this goal and importantly, so would his opponent. So, having spent the last 10 years at UKFast speeding up the internet [...]

Rupert Murdoch would have us all believe that “paying for content online is right and that aggregators like Google that use newspaper content but don’t pay for it are doing something wrong.” (BBC article). And he’s actually got a level of support behind him…from the traditional print media that is. Johnson Press, the UK’s largest [...]

Over at the Windows Server Divison Team WebLog, news that a couple of new addons for IIS have been released. Take advantage of these new technologies and the latest Windows Server operating system and see your site soar up the rankings!

Developers looking to take advantage of the new features in R2 should be delighted to hear about a new training kit made available for download by MS.

I cant advise this enough.  This is a great OS.  The Vista OS was good in my opinion and this is a better more streamlined version.  People state that Vista was buggy and sluggish – depends what you did with it and what hardware you ran it on.  Windows 7 does strip out this complication [...]

MS giving away stuff? Yep! the Multi-billion dollar company has released the Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 eBook – owing to the recent wave of R2 launches no doubt. If you fancy it, follow the link below …. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/windowsserver.aspx

The latest IPA Bellwether report tells us that businesses are now more confident about economic conditions, however the vast majority are still not prepared to increase their offline marketing budgets. Is this the right approach in this climate? It may seem strange for an internet business to be supporting the idea of offline marketing spend [...]

Over at MS they’re developing a whole load of web addons (as discussed in previous WebPI post). This particular little number might be useful for the wider community of developers who might not need such automated tools to configure their servers. Bing Maps beta (http://www.bing.com/maps/) MSDN: Developing a Silverlight Application Using Bing Maps Web Services [...]

It is no surprise that over the last 18 months marketing spend has decreased as businesses tighten their belts against recession. Spending money on speculating for new customers always seems to be the first expense to be cut back. However, proving that no businesses can do without any advertising, notoriously ad shy Google has just [...]