The official blog of mine.

The New (Beta from now) Microsoft Windows Server 208 R2, IIS 7.5 and the .Net Framework 4.0!

I decided that my next main site will run on these platforms to ensure that updates to new techs and be able to learn this ahead of time.

The ASP.Net 4.0 Logo (unofficial)

My new website Response Header

Oh I missed already my WPF days when I was able to write parallel and multi-threaded programming . Whats good about the new framework,  this time you will never directly (as what I did in the 3.5) have to write with the  pool threads or worker threads. Whew!

Also, I am so intrigue with their new class- The LAZY class.

Anyway, too much to speak about them and if you like more info on this stuffs you can visit this links below…

Windows Server 2008 R2

IIS 7

ASP.Net / .Net Framework 4.0

Old Looks and a brand new engine.

It’s been a day since the decommissioning of my last open source server, I still have my checklist of tasks to do for my new server and may I say “mine”.  Though it is only just a quarter of power with the previous one, its much more efficient in terms of power consumption (yes, due to economic crisis I had to think of my electricity bills right?). Also, I  suspended my hosting services for now because of “security reasons” with my current server’s operating system. Open Ports should be  carefully watched for suspicious and other unnecessary services should be disabled.  Here are some of the retired and added plugged in services:

HTTP ->  Obviously Retained ->  Apache replaced by IIS

FTP -> Deactivated -> N/A

DNS -> Retained -> BIND replaced by MS DNS Server

Webmin/Virtualmin(hosting mgt. tool) -> Removed -> Not needed anymore.

Source Control -> Retained -> SVN replaced by MS VS TFS and Sharepoint Server

Virtualization -> Deactivated -> hardware issues with the new one.

Netcraft Info

Love it as you Hate it!

I was stumbled for what I just recently learned, at last, the much awaited and “one of the most hotly requested (not to mention a more decent) features for IIS” is now available! and I already using it.lol!

This feature is not new to web community especially in the open guys community (In fact,I also used the mod_rewrite module in my Apache for here in my blog site). In the IIS world, this feature was existed (through ISAPI) before but it was horrible. Web developers are having difficulties doing URL rewriting and other URL manipulations in the previous version of IIS because sometimes they have to customized their program to interact properly with the rewrite. But now there are lot of new features and it was easier to use that is why I tried it in my upcoming site which I still keep secret for now (it’s not yet done.Okay!).

Anyway, Here’s a quick fact about URL rewriting and IIS rewrite module.

URL Rewriting (wiki)
Rewritten URL’s (sometimes known as short or fancy URL’s) are used to provide shorter and more relevant-looking links to web pages. The technique adds a degree of separation between the files used to generate a web page and the URL that is presented to the world.

http://www.example.com/Blogs/2006/12/10/

In short, Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URL in/with dynamic web applications.

Here is a short Overview of IIS rewrite module (MS).

URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server. The module can be used to express URL rewriting logic that can use regular expressions or wildcards and can make rewriting decisions based on HTTP headers and server variables. While the primary purpose of the module is to rewrite requested URL’s, it also has functionality to perform redirects, send custom responses or abort requests based on the logic expressed in the rewrite rules.

Whats good about managing MS servers with Linux servers is that with MS “wizardly” you will never spend your time doing your problem with configuring IIS rewriting! (WOW, is that great!) but you will spend much of time securing your Server itself (wahahahahahaha…..)!Joke.