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Hi!

If you're interesting in using the Microsoft ASP.NET framework for developing web application with the Microsoft .NET Framework, you might want to take a look at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ . While Tutorial 9 is about web design, the ASP.NET website is about web development, which primarily deals with the code that goes behind the web interface of the system.

On the ASP.NET website, you can find tutorial videos, a Wiki about ASP.NET development, and plenty of tutorials, in addition to a very active forum specific to development with the Microsoft .NET platform. You can also find Microsoft employees who are leaders in their technology contributing to the website, which is one of the reasons for its success.

Regards,
Nitin Reddy

Hi!I believe $1,000 is a steep price, considering most domains are sold on GoDaddy for anywhere from $50 to $500. I don't trade in domains, so I can't give you an expert opinion, but this has been my general observation. I'm not trying to discourage you because you just might get a buyer willing to shell out $1,000 for the domain name.Also, I was wondering if you would be selling only the domain name or also the blog system and all the articles on it. If you are selling only the domain, the Google PageRank of the domain would probably drop significantly when the content that the domain is pointing to has changed and all the inbound links become broken links. While I do agree that this would take a bit of time for Google to discover that the links are no longer available on the domain, it would eventually occur.By the way, I'd like to know why you would like to sell the blog especially since it seems like a pretty good idea.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!

Both Java Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs) are used for developing web applications. However, the difference lies in the Java Server Pages being simpler to use for creating forms and general web interfaces while Java Servlets are better suited for tasks such as form processing and serving non-HTML content.

Being curious, as is human nature, you might want to know why Java Server Pages are better suited for web interfaces and Java Servlets are apt for processing data and dealing with non-HTML data, so I'll try to explain it best I can:

Java Servlet Pages are like PHP pages or like ASPX pages in ASP.NET. You embed your code within HTML markup such that the application server outputs the HTML markup as-is while processing the Java code written within server-side code tags. Think of server-side code tags as a specialized form of the SCRIPT tag, which is used for writing Javascript (I believe you already understand the differences between Javascript, which is a client side scripting language, and Java, which in this case is a server side scripting language).

Java Servlets are like C/C++ programs, where you would use the equivalent of a println statement to output data to the browser. If you want to print a few messages onto the browser, this does the job but for extensive HTML markup, you would find it difficult to output everything as a println-like statement, especially when dealing with quotes when specifying the attribute values in HTML tags.

To summarize, Java Server Pages are like a template processing framework (though that isn't the right term for it) while Java Servlets are like C/C++ command-line programs that can output any kind of data but is generally used for non-HTML or limited data.

Please feel free to write back to this thread if you have any more questions about the differences between Java Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs), and I or one of the other members on the forum would be more than happy to help you out with it.

Best Regards,

Nitin Reddy

Hi!Over the past couple of years, a lot of other Linux distributions have made available their own Linux LiveCDs. The most common now is the Ubuntu installation CD which doubles up as a LiveCD. A while back, the Fedora LiveCD was quite popular owing to the Fedora Core Linux distribution which was almost ubiquitous, at least in this part of the world. You can also get floppy-based Linux distributions for older computers. I remember running Greycat Linux on an old AST 386SX laptop.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!When running WordPress on XAMPP hosted on a Windows server, I did have pretty heavy CPU usage. When running on a Linux setup though, it worked with pretty minimal CPU usage. I did optimize both the XAMPP-Windows setup and Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP setup so I was quite surprised with the results.A lot of other Windows administrators reported issues too. Perform a Google search for "wordpress CPU" and the first search result that comes up is titled "Coding Horror: Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs". The second search result is "How do I reduce my crazy wordpress CPU usage".Several users have reported issues with their shared hosting providers disabling their accounts, though there wasn't anything mentioned about whether the shared hosting provider ran Windows or Linux.I'm assuming it's more of a Windows-PHP issue, and since I am using the Linux hosting package, I'm guessing I shouldn't have any issues with it.Regards

Hi!Has anyone ever had any problem with CPU usage when hosting WordPress on Xisto - Web Hosting? Also, does anyone know of any WordPress plugins that are known to eat up resources on the server? (something like Firestat)-Nitin

Hi!@mm22You do draw an interesting perspective there - changing jobs to do what you do best. When you do change jobs, it would take you time to learn what your new work environment and job have to offer. Developing your skills to reach a competent level and practicing your skills would take at least a year or two.If you do feel the need to switch firms very often for developing your skills, you could join a consultancy firm that would put you on different projects and have you working with different clients. You get the benefit without really having to cast a shadow of doubt over your resume.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!@arvindshetty86If you really do want to pursue a career in a particular technology and the barriers to entry are quite high, then you've got to put the work into doing whatever it takes to get in and stay in. If not, you might want to pick something easier to do.When choosing a technology to specialize in, you might want to either find a technology that a lot of firms are hiring for, which makes it easier to get into the industry even with a fairly limited knowledge of the technology, or you could target a niche technology where you'd find fewer jobs, but since hiring other professionals for the same technology would be hard for the firm, you'd pretty much have a sense of job security since they'd have to go through much more effort to replace you. In some cases, the pay for a niche technology would be better too since they expect you to be a specialist in your field.BTW, if you're good at Java, you really ought to try to get into an entry-level Java programming position as those are easier to get into. It's not all command-line and compiler like most people tell you it is. You get a pretty integrated development environment (IDE) to design forms for graphical user interfaces (AWT, Swing or SWT development) and if you prefer to go with web development instead, there's JSP (Java Server Pages) and servlets. Have a go at it; perhaps you'll like it.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!@syncn21I was wondering... why would he have to choose between a job he loves and going to school to take up a job he hates? He could go to school and keep the job he loves, though it'd take quite a bit of effort on his part. In the view of practicality, he really ought to consider finishing school. It's a kind of a contingency plan in case his 'dream' job turns out to be sour. I've met a couple of guys who work as graphic designers, though they've studied to become computer programmers - just because that's what they've been taught does not mean that that's what they have to do all their lives... and if they do have a problem with the way things are going in their industry, they can bail out and switch to an alternate career. It works out fine either way.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!The kind of education you require depends on the line of work that you are in. If you are a medical doctor, you can bet they're not going to practice until you get your degree and pass the licensing exam. For a graphic designer, education doesn't really matter - he/she just needs a really good portfolio and a couple of good clients to be able to scale the heights.Irrespective of what you do, experience does make you more desirable for a firm. The questions they normally ask are, "Does he/she have a proven track record? Has he/she done something similar? Will he/she stick around long enough?"Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!@harrison858Moon colonization is a fantasy. Sure, it is possible just like people inhabit space stations, but it is just not economically feasible to have more than a few dozen people living there. With temperatures varying between -185C and 105C, we'd be spending a whole lot on heating and air conditioning.Transporting food, water, and oxygen every few months would be a necessity, but you wouldn't have Internet access, televisions and stuff of that sort for cheap - putting up a satellite needs lots and lots of money, something tax payers wouldn't want to provide moon-dwellers with.You most certainly would need computing devices to monitor such an environment. Building the software requires billions in tax-payer money and it is put to good use with rigorous testing. This isn't standard software and it isn't put through regular software development processes. Mission critical software is tested and reviewed to a very large extend, increasing the cost per line of code greatly, but the cost is justified by the risk avoided to human life and expensive property.Supporting life on the moon would simply put too much pressure on earth's already depleting resources. You'd be better off trying to setup an environment of comfort in the Sahara desert - it'd be cheaper, you could use camels for transport instead of automobiles, you'd have the beautiful sights of the desert all day and would be closer to nature.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!@AlokI'm assuming you are getting the error: "Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by ...". Can you reply with the name of the file listed in the error? If you can open the file, make sure you've removed and spaces at the beginning of the file before the <?php opening tag. Next, check for any echo or print statements at the start of the file that appear before header statements. Also ensure that any functions that call echo or printer do not precede functions that call header. As a last resort, you can use output buffering by setting it in the PHP configuration file, which is the php.ini file located in the etc folder on most Linux distributions.Hope this helps. Oh, and can you post more information about the environment you've got there? What Operating System are you running, are you using an Apache MySQL PHP bundle, what version of PHP are you running, which version of WordPress have you got and which plugins are installed, what theme are you running, did you manually edit any of the files? This information will help in further diagnosing the problem you are experiencing.Regards

Hi Mridul!If you want to get onto the quick path to websites, you could go with a web hosting account with a pre-installed CMS. Xistro provides a WordPress install as an add-on in its packages.Although, to take up web development professionally, you would need to learn some HTML/CSS/Javascript and get some Photoshop-ing skills.As BCD mentions, you don't need to take up personalized training, but if you do get to an institute, they would help you get started much quicker. You might be able to find a couple of videos on YouTube (I've seen a "Basic HTML and CSS" video on there once). Google is your friend.If you need any more help, you can always post to the forum and you'll get lots of expert advice and solutions to your problems.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi Christopher!

Good to have you here at Trap 17. What do you do? I'm assuming you are a software developer, since you mention that you are into computers.

If you're planning to start with web development, you'll find the community at Trap 17 really helpful. If you're planning to use a simple CMS, I'd suggest you order WordPress with your hosting - it's a blogging engine as well as a mini-CMS.

When getting started, you might find the following links helpful:
myCENTS credit system: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/61592-credit-system-v30-online-resolved-free-web-hosting-domains-dedicated-ip-digital-certificate-managed/
Board rules: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Do holler back if you need any help.

Regards,
Nitin Reddy

Hi!I've had many co-workers who switched to Windows 7 RC as their primary OS. Since we've got MS Exchange as our mail server and the infrastructure guys don't support any other email client, we're pretty much forced into using Windows to run MS Outlook. Sure, there's Evolution's OWA integration but it doesn't work with Exchange 2007 (they upgraded a couple of months ago from the old version).I particularly remember the time when I use Vista for the first time. One fine day, it just wouldn't start so after trying to transplant my hard disk to another desktop (turns out none of the others guys in the IT department had a SATA controller) I decided to just install Fedora Core Linux, overwriting the Windows partition and I used Remote Desktop to work directly on a Windows 2003 server.I wouldn't give up on Windows XP just yet. Perhaps when I get a PC with 8GB RAM, I'll consider Windows 7 64-bit edition but until then I'm pretty satisfied running Windows XP 32-bit with 3GB RAM.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!I seem to have developed a liking for Ubuntu recently. It's simple to use and gives you just what you need. I had the opportunity to try out the server edition on an HP blade server and it ran perfectly well, though the default installation of the server edition doesn't give you a GUI (who needs a GUI on a server anyway? :-P ).The first Linux distro that I've tried was a floppy-based embedded system... Greycat Linux. I used it on my ancient AST 386 laptop. I barely used it for about 5 minutes so I guess that doesn't really count. I then got hooked up with RedHat Linux 7 so the natural progression was to Fedora Core. However, I didn't use Linux for about 2 years and when I was back on the scene, Ubuntu was supposed to be the coolest and greatest thing around. I'd still choose Fedora Core if I had a second system though.I noticed recently that the Fedora Core distribution is marked as a desktop edition. I always used Fedora to run on the servers as the package installer would give me a selection of items (alternatives) to select from.Back in the day, we had the ability to run Linux using the LoadLin utility so didn't have to install the bootloader. I'd just restart in MS DOS mode and there I was, running Linux.I used Mandriva (and Mandrake) as a RedHat alternative and while it was good, it always turned out that when I was looking for a Linux distro, there was a newer RedHat distro available.Knoppix linux was my favorite for a while. My laptop's hard disk had died and before I could go out and get a new one, I decided to try a live CD that actually provided a GUI (unlike the rescue CDs). It was pretty amazing and I really liked the ability to host a network-boot (NetBT) Linux distro on one computer while all the others just ran off the system... it saved on CDs when I wanted to share it with buddies on a LAN.I would like to mention Turbo Linux, a distro that I really liked for the mod that auto-corrected mis-typed spellings on a terminal window. It also supported my Connexant modem out-of-the-box, which none of the other distro of the time were able to do. It runs on my old Thinkpad 600E (as does Knoppix) while most other distros crash or hang on startup for some reason (I think I need a BIOS update). I got a chance to try it when they provided a CD with the ThinkCenter PC I was using temporarily.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!I'd definitely get a notebook PC instead of a desktop. Sure, desktops are more powerful can be upgraded more easily and you can hook up a really mean video card in it, but the ease with which you can pick up your notebook PC and walk into any room or go out to the coffee shop wins me over. That, and I can take my notebook with me to class so I don't need to buy another one just to take to class.When the workplace offers me a notebook PC, I take it around to the conference room, to a co-worker's desk for discussions and stuff. They'd be spending more in lost productivity if they gave me a desktop PC. The notebook can still run CounterStrike Source at full detail though :-PRegards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!I've always been using WinDVD because it came included with just about every computer that I bought. I noticed that the DVDs/VCDs that caused Windows Media Player to hang worked perfectly with WinDVD so I made the switch. I've tried PowerDVD once but didn't find anything unique about it. I've not tried any of the others that you've listed in the poll.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!

I believe what you want to do is to customize the components available with Windows. Windows XP enables you to do this in the embedded edition, often abbreviated to XPe. You can get a copy of the Windows XP Embedded Edition Kit at:
http://www.microsoft.com/err/windowsembedded/

There's a Unix/Linux distribution with something similar, but I can't remember which - either OpenSUSE or OpenSolaris.

Regards,
Nitin Reddy

Hi!I work as a web developer with an online media firm. The firm primarily works with ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server with which we write applications from scratch, but recently we decided to deploy WordPress for which we've got MySQL and Linux, so I work with both stacks of technologies. The infrastructure guys only manage the Windows domain, backups and email so I setup the websites under IIS for the projects I'm associated with. I manage the Linux servers that host WordPress on Apache and MySQL.As a web developer, I don't really get to work with cool message brokers and queueing systems, geographical mapping systems, device drivers, and stuff of that sort. Maybe someday. :-(Regards,Nitin Reddy

@IdolonHi!I've not tried WAMP (unless you are referring to TSW - The Saint WAMP, which I used a long time ago) so I can't tell you much about it. Pretty much any package involving Apache supports aliases - I use XAMPP and my phpMyAdmin works just fine even when I change the document root - it's because the alias is like creating a virtual directory under the root of your website so no matter where you move your document root to, it still works. I think the only time you'd have a problem with an alias is when there's a folder of the same name in the document root folder.I prefer to do most of my configuration via the config file, but if there were a better GUI for XAMPP, I'd definitely use it.Regards,Nitin ReddyPS: I'm guessing XAMPP is more frequently updated than WAMP as it's more in the buzz.

Hi!@giselle, you certainly got the VIP treatment!My tooth extraction was for fitting braces. It just involved injecting anesthetics directly into the mouth after which the whole area went numb. Then, the dentist pulled out the teeth with what I could've sworn were a pair of pliers. I was sent out the door with some cotton on my gums and an ice pack.Apart from having painkillers and avoiding solid food for a week, things were pretty normal. There was the 'empty' feeling in my gums for a while but then the feeling just went away and the gums covered themselves up... eventually the braces forced other teeth into the spot so you'd barely be able to tell that there was a tooth extraction.Extraction of teeth isn't as bad as it sounds. Apart from the syringe, it's a pretty pain-less procedure.@rob86I didn't get my ninja tooth sticker :-(I would've appreciated it if they would've at least given my a blue tooth dongle :-PRegards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!@flashclocksI'm guessing the delay is due to a manual rating of your post so you can be rewarded more appropriately. I mean would you rather have an automated system that gave you the same points as a guy who copy-pasted an article off a website, or would you prefer to earn more myCENT credits for your post at the expense of a delay from manual rating?Besides, with something that is free, you shouldn't expect the same kind of service as a commercial for-fee service, although if the service provider is able to provide the same level of service, that's due to a lot of effort on their part.@rob86Although the ASCII art is a lot of characters, the poster doesn't get myCENT credits for it as it is within QUOTE tags. Besides, it's against the forum rules to copy-paste text without using QUOTE tags.Regards

Hi!I'm guessing Cutenews has some kind of a rich text editor that adds the text justification and perhaps it would have a way of inserting HTML content directly into the editor? If not then, as jlhaslip says, you've got to modify the source code.I was wondering if you would have to give us access to the source code to be able to help you out so I just looked up the Cutenews website and forum. It's free for non-commercial use as long as you don't remove the "Powered by" at the bottom of the page i.e. on the page footer, so I guess the other members on the forum can get you a mod or something.I would do more to help, but I'm packing for my week-long vacation which I'll be starting soon.Regards

Hi!@VeradesignsIf 40Gbps isn't enough for you, there's a standard to achieve 100Gbps over standard copper cable too, but you'll probably have to spend a lot on the network interfaces. As explained earlier about 10Gbps, you can achieve transfer speeds of 400-800Gbps or higher with NIC bonding on a mid range server.@onitenkiThe monthly cap is really crap. The ISP advertises an "unlimited" package, but then in the fine print they mention that you've got to pay for all transfer that exceed a certain limit so that's not really unlimited, is it? When you've got the bandwidth, you'll eventually find something to take it up - right from hosting a website on your own desktop to video conferencing with buddies in HD goodness :-)BTW, whether or not you have fiber optic connections at home doesn't really matter when the bottle neck is at the point that connects all the houses in your area to the ISP. For instance, if you had a 256kbps connection, it wouldn't really matter if you connected your DSL model via USB 1.1, 10Mbps ethernet or 100Mbps ethernet - you would still get no more than the 256kbps since that's your bottle neck.Regards,Nitin Reddy