Here is an article about the tools I have found that help me being a web developer on Windows with ASP.NET. In addition to acquiring/downloading the best tools available, I recommend doing a lot of research before making design or layout changes on your site.

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DNN is a great portal application, but some of the provided modules are lacking. The weblog module is one of them (even though it has made some improv...

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The traffic to the FanGap network keeps increasing and yet DNN just hums away without any issues.

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What do you consider a heavily traffficated DN site? 10, 20, even 90 current annonymous users? Our FanGap network receives over 50,000 users per day hitting the site generating hundreads of thousands of requests per day. Since the site is aimed at the tween set, our traffic balloons right after school hours.

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Sometimes in the online world when approaching a project people seem to classify the issues facing a website as a technology issue. It's as if building a web site is this mysterious thing wrapped in so much technology it's just too much handle. Just sitting in the office of a technology provider gets nerve wracking; hearing all the techno geeks spitting out acronym after acronym and having no idea what any of it means - html, Ajax, XML, HTTP, Java, ASP, .NET, Web services, Web 2.0, what all does it mean?!

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MOSS is marketed by many as a portal for the enterprise, providing collaboration, applications, content management, document searching, and other tools. The question though is what is MOSS? Is it a portal, and what exactly is a portal? Why are we seeing a big push by Microsoft for MOSS? At every meeting with Microsoft they say “MOSS!” and with that they say so few get what MOSS actually is.

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To understand and then combat a brute force attack, also known as a dictionary attack, we must start by understanding why it might be an appealing tool for a hacker. To a hacker, anything that must be kept under lock and key is probably worth stealing. If your Web site (or a portion of it) requires a user to login and be authenticated, then the odds are good that a hacker has tried to break into it.

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