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DirecTV Needs Staging and Testing by Jason N. Gaylord

As a software developer, you know that best practices recommend testing and even staging environments. Evidently, DirecTV lacks that or is really missing something. Sometime today, they released a software update that sent nearly all of their HD receivers...

Technology In Political Views by Jason N. Gaylord

I usually don't like mentioning anything political in my blog. However, this I found interesting. BetaNews has written several entries regarding the democratic and republic president and vice-president candidates. Here they are in order of publish date...

FBI Purchased $3.5 Million Counterfeit CISCO Parts by Jason N. Gaylord

I just came across a post that the FBI purchased 3500 counterfeit CISCO parts (estimated at $3.5 million in value). This goes under my "funny, but not funny" category of the day. :) Here's the full article: http://tinyurl.com/5aht29 .

MAC vs PC Commercials - Funny How Untrue It Is by Jason N. Gaylord

Ever see those MAC vs PC comercials that talk about how Apple Mac is always on and never has bugs, etc? Interesting enough, MAC users are furious that their MAC laptops are rebooting. Check this out: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2016295,00.asp...

Click-Once Frustrations by Jason N. Gaylord

Wow! I'm severly disappointed with click-once. I went to use it for a small app I released last week and I find it extremely disturbing that third-party dependencies aren't included in the package as either a dependency or an installable DLL....

New Advertising System by Jason N. Gaylord

Yesterday I switched advertising systems from Google AdSense to Lake Quincy Media. What a difference! The quality of advertisements is 10 times greater than what I had before. Google's AdSense system was intelligent, but failed miserably on my site...

Infamous 866-383-0986 Phone Scam by Jason N. Gaylord

Well, Abdul just called me from Domain Registry Services. Seriously, these people should really give up this scam already. It's doing nothing but wasting time for other individuals. I'm on the do-not-call list for everyone of my phone numbers...

Book Review: ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed by Jason N. Gaylord

Since ASP.NET 1.0, one of the most popular books (if not the most popular book) has been Stephen Walther's ASP.NET Unleashed. Recently, Sams Publishing has released ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed, again written by Stephen. This review will discuss the good...

Review of Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers by Jason N. Gaylord

My review of the Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers book has been published to the ASPAlliance.com website. To read the review, please visit http://aspalliance.com/931 .

How the stacks stack up: Microsoft vs Open Source by Jason N. Gaylord

I was reading an article earlier by Jim Rapoza of eWeek . In the eWeek labs, eWeek setup "stack packs". Each pack had their own server OS, web server, database, scripting/development language, and test portal. The Windows JBoss had Server 2k3...
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