Scott On Writing.NET - All Comments

re: A Review of Desktop / Screen Sharing Software

Mark — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:11:52 GMT

After having worked for several large corporations and using several screen sharing and meeting-type applications, for me as a consultant WebEx has performed the best and offered the most features when needing fast meeting time and setup and a low number of participants. Internally ATT has tried to roll out many applications that are similar but were almost always a failure. WebEx isn't perfect but in a world of less-than, it more than suits the needs and delivers good value.

re: Two Monitors Are Better Than One, But Are Three Better Than Two?

Nathan — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:05:32 GMT

I've never been inclined to add a third monitor. Like you, I suspect that it would just sit there gathering dust. Two monitors has made a huge improvement and I wouldn't want to go back to a single screen set up but I think a third would just be a distraction. But as you say, there are certain tasks and industries that require three monitors, sometimes even more.

re: Enhancing the Store Locator ASP.NET MVC Application to Include Directions

Christine — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:37:23 GMT

Thanks for the tutorial! I had one question about it though, in Part 1 it states that you are using 0.25 as an estimated 15 miles, how would I add a radius dropdown so the user can select the radius and add it to the sql query? Unfortunately, I have been having issues opening the .mdf file so I can't see any stored procedures, db columns, etc.

re: Using the GeneratedImage Control in ASP.NET MVC

Scott Mitchell — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:56:33 GMT

Ron, the caching is handled through the GeneratedImage control and doesn't have anything to do with ASP.NET MVC or ASP.NET Routing. For more on the GeneratedImage control's caching capabilities (which can be performed both server-side and client-side), see: www.4guysfromrolla.com/.../042209-1.aspx

re: Using the GeneratedImage Control in ASP.NET MVC

Ron DeFreitas — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:32:54 GMT

What about Caching the images in the client?

re: HOWTO: Update Records in a Database Table With Data From Another Table (MS SQL Server)

Scott Reed — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:57:35 GMT

I agree with Jay, I have ofthen for large daily SQL Agent processing tasks, I have had data pulled in to numerous tempory tables, then modifed as needs and the main table re-updated after joining the temporay and physical tables together. Handy technique :)

re: A Review of Desktop / Screen Sharing Software

Steve Ewart — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:03:42 GMT

I second Scott Rudy in that you need to check out DimDim.com. I have been using it for a year and have hosted about 20 hour long web demonstrations and it works great. The best part is that the attendees just need Flash to attend. I'm sure it's getting to be the norm. With the free account, there is a limit of 20 attendees but for most, that is enough. Cant beat the price.

re: Using the GeneratedImage Control in ASP.NET MVC

Scott Mitchell — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:25:01 GMT

And here is Part 2 of the series on converting the store locator application from WebForms to ASP.NET MVC:

www.4guysfromrolla.com/.../082510-1.aspx

re: Using the GeneratedImage Control in ASP.NET MVC

Scott Mitchell — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:59:07 GMT

Here is Part 1 of my two-part series on converting the store locator application from WebForms to ASP.NET MVC:

www.4guysfromrolla.com/.../081810-1.aspx

re: WebHost4Life Review : My First Year with WebHost4Life

Joseph — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:53:03 GMT

I have been when webhost4life for 5+ years, and it has been very very painful, I keep asking my self why haven’t I switched companies every time I run into problems. I have a VPS account with them, which you would expect would be better as I pay a few hundred dollars per quarter. The technicians try but the services is terrible as best, chat support is defiantly a failing grade, 45 minutes to add a forwarding e-mail address in their new platform, to be only told that he has recreated the error. Our last issue just got fixed yesterday when they migrated our account to their new system and our website and company we were completely shut down for 4 days, no website, no database, we had a ticket and phone calls put in on Friday & Saturday and by Monday I was calling them personally as no action was taken,

The level 1 level 2 level 3 and senior engineer support staff and still no website. Lost over $3,000.00 in revenue in the past 4 days, I would guess over 25,000.00 in the 4 years with little mishaps and mistakes.

The new Control panel is “new looking” but extremely slow and confusing, could be that it was not even working. I’ve now been pushed over my limit of being a 5 years customer and decided to go to a better quality webhosting dedicated even if it is $400+ monthly. I have chatted with Peer1 on many occasions but did not do the jump, but I’m at my wits end and I hope that this will help someone else thinking of dealing with webhost4life. I personal lost well over 40 hours dealing with unnecessary issues with webhost4life and I’m a CEO, my IT guys have spent a lot more time dealing with them and at $25,00 to $30.00 per hour I don’t even want to add up the lost productivity and expenses. I’m guessing a few weeks to prepare to move our account so any suggestions are appreciated, were windows based.

I would write a book about the past 5 years of my experiences with them but I would be here for a week solid with my comments and examples. Companies can not afford to be messing around with their web provider solutions. The losses have been great! The last compensation they offer for being completely down for 4 days was two months free ( pay for 2 of the next 4 months in the billing quarter. No thanks! To stay with this company anymore would mean to much stress and worry that our site would be down again for the “5th time” and the chance that it would be during the holiday season!

re: I Am Now Tweeting (Or is it Twittering?)

Javier Callico — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:55:53 GMT

You may want to take a look at this:

www.hanselman.com/.../HowToTwitterFirstStepsAndATwitterGlossary.aspx

re: I Am Now Tweeting (Or is it Twittering?)

Eber Irigoyen — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:02:22 GMT

"No tweets about what I had for breakfast or that my flight is delayed, promise!"... at least until you "get it" ;)

re: I Am Now Tweeting (Or is it Twittering?)

Matt — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:16:01 GMT

No! No! No!

Not more places I have to look for information. I already have to read about a bilion blogs as it is.

Well, I suppose if your stuff ges to Twitter instead I will be able to stop reading this one.

re: WebHost4Life Review : My First Year with WebHost4Life

Goka — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:35:31 GMT

I was with these guys for last 5 Years … total ticket opened : not more than 25 … live chat support not more than 20 times … everything was so smooth that I never realized the term pain or frustration or anger in dealing with hosting provider.

The new platform is a real pain and worth recommending to your enemy.

Think of this …

1. You want to upload a zip and get it unzipped at site : No unzip feature available, you have to open a ticket and it may take 24-48-72 Hrs to unzip a file.

2. No rename feature in file management

3. Backup & restore for big MS SQL files not possible as a product used ‘MyLittleAdmin’ it self suggest to use ‘MyLittleBackup’ and accepts that ‘MyLittleAdmin’ is not good for such tasks

4. Your site is down or had some issues … open a ticket wait for 24-48-72 to get some reply … if not resolved and need additional information or you want to add something … again same time cycle ….

5. There is a 24 X 7 live chat support to assist. Defination of assistance … Can we put you on hold for 4-5 minutes to review your account …some discussion … again can we you on hold for 4-5 minutes … I have escalated this to our tier 2 experts and opened a ticket for you … 24-48-72 Hrs. to resolve …

6. If you get frustrated by now immediate assistance is available @ 75$/Hr.

re: A Review of Desktop / Screen Sharing Software

Petar Vucetin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:18:31 GMT

I use SharedView very successfully. Was able to convert Microsoft Netmeeting folks to this simple and easy to use tool.