A while back I created a monitoring application for Pingdom Corporation called Pingdom Alerter. This application has been used by a wide customer base to monitor their site status on the Pingdom service. I am looking to find at least 3 individuals that have used the Pindom Alerter, created by my company IowaComputerGurus Inc. that would be willing to be a reference to state that the application works as described. The application can be found on the Pingdom Services Page.
If anyone can help me out with this I would greatly appreciate it as this is the final step needed for my business to attain Microsoft Certified Partner status. Please e-mail me at msellers@iowacomputergurus.com if you are willing/able to help.
Posted by Mitchel on Monday, August 18, 2008
In the past I have completed reviews of various DotNetNuke modules, components, and skins, however, recently I have been receiving a number of e-mails with questions about how I manage my business. Typically these questions have been from individuals that are just starting out with consulting business, or those looking for better ways to manage their pending products. Once item that I always recommend to people is BaseCamp, a hosted project management solution provided by 37Signals. This article will go through the features/services offered, and why I use it to manage all projects.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, August 01, 2008
Recently when browsing the forums on DotNetNuke.com I have noticed more and more
questions regarding Script Injection vulnerability in the core and third-party modules.
I have often found that at times it is hard for non-developers to truly understand
the concept of script injection and what makes a site vulnerable. So in this
article I will take a bit of time to discuss both types of injection that users
of DotNetNuke should be aware of, how to test for them, and also how to prevent
the vulnerability when creating modules.
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, May 20, 2008
I am sure that most readers of this site have at one point or another noticed my RegularExpression articles. Well this past week I was looking for a very specific regular expression and thought I would share it with you. The following regular expresion is used to validate a GUID value for user input. You can use this to ensure that product keys and other GUID values that you are using are in the proper format.
^(\{){0,1}[0-9a-fA-F]{8}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}(\}){0,1}$
Posted by Mitchel on Sunday, April 22, 2007
So yesterday I decided to replace my computer system, and today now that it is running it is totally amazing. The system is so fast and quite it is not even funny. I built the system myself using stuff purchased from Tiger Direct's outlet store in Naperville, IL and from a CompUSA in Naperville, IL that was going out of business! That will teach me to go to Chicago for a weekend!
The system has the following specs.
-Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 Ghz Processor
-2 Gb DDR2 800 RAM
-1 10,000 74Gb SATA Hard Drive
-1 320Gb SATA 3.0Gb/sec Hard Drive
-256 Mb ATI Radeon X1300 graphics card (I don't do PC Games)
-DVD Burner with LightScribe
-One really massive ThermalTake CPU cooler!
It is amazing how my multi-taking actually works now, I can have multiple large applications open and instantlly switch between them without any difficulties at all!
Just thought I'd share!
(Remember, my company is in the business of building a custom system for you, contact us for details!)
Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, October 10, 2006