July 2009 Entries
As I have been installing my own personal server I came across one piece of software where I couldn't find what I believed to be satisfying functionality. I ordered my server with Windows 2008 and MS SQL 2008 Web Edition. I found hMailServer to be a good, reliable mail server and as a bonus it comes with a web interface for configuring it - but there's no webmail, bummer!
I tried searching around for free webmail implementations but most free ones out there are written in PHP which is not an issue at all my IIS server can run PHP easily...
It has been many years since I switched away from Microsoft's Internet Explorer - that was around the time when IE 5.5 was ruling the world. I stumbled upon Mozilla Firebird (which was one of the earlier names of Mozilla Firefox, it was named Phoenix before that) - and have been with the Firebird/Firefox browser ever since. In the beginning it was the "magic" of tabbed browsing that got me switching - but today there's three major reasons why I prefer Firefox over Google Chrome - which I believe to be one of the best browsers out there.
1. Google Chrome...
Along with the makeover of the site - alot more has been undergoing changes. In fact, the entire site is now hosted at my own VPS (Virtual Private Server). This means that I have full control over everything and this gives me nice options to run other types of servers as well - such as Subversion for Source Control, TeamCity for Continuous Integration - but also more commonly known services such as a mail server.
With this freedom also comes the tiring job of setting it all up and getting it working. I have previously set up several Linux servers for...
I have been running this site for a long time on a blog engine I wrote myself quite a while back. I mainly did this - because I wanted to write a blog engine - and what better way of testing it other than using it yourself can you possibly do? However - this engine was really simple and lacked alot of features, and I, unfortunatly, now years later have lost the source code for it.
So, I decided to try and use one of the more known engines - and have now gone with SubText. I am still trying to...