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I have been aware for some time about URL Rewriting on Apache via a .htaccess file. But recently working with Umbraco I discovered that version 4 incorporated a rewriting library to enable its use in virtual directories and provide friendly URLs, http://www.urlrewriting.net/149/en/home.html.   Some further research showed quite a number of rewriting libraries for IIS using ISAPI or HTTPModules:- http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/ http://urlrewriter.codeplex.com/ http://iirf.codeplex.com/ and Brendan Kowitz makes some interesting points in a 2006 blog entries, here. What was more surprising was that…

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About a year ago the Hosting company I use announced it was moving from Plesk to DotNetPanel. As I didn’t like Plesk and a brief look at DNP showed it had Zip and UnZip options within the FileManager, I immediately ask to be converted. Since then I’ve continued to be pleased by this decision, but it was only recently that I discovered DNP has gone Open Source and become WebsitePanel. Therefore, I couldn’t resist having a look at how it…

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I’ve been using Windows Live Mail for some time and find it a very useful application to integrate together a few email addresses, but still allowing me to see my mail via hotmail for those times I’m not at my PC. Having now started using BlogEngine, I’d thought I’d try Windows Live Writer as the blog’s documentation had mentioned the MetaWeblog API. Well, here it is. My first post using Live writer.  Seems very competent. And got that ever necessary…

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Do you do something before reading the instructions? I do, especially when trying a new piece of technology or software. This blog is no exception. I’ve been intending doing something about a blog, mainly to keep notes about software matters, and it might as well be a blog too, in the vain hope that someone else might be helped by my musings or ineptitue. Well I’ve just spent the evening installing my first BlogEngine.Net blog, having found the Codeplex site…

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