One of the best tools available in IIS 7+ to debug the applications and find out about the issues happening historically on the web server is FREB log files. FREB as it stands for Failed Request Event Buffering, is a handy tool for tracing the status of an application. It basically hooks up to an http status code and persist the tracing information in an xml file. While the xml file is not a small one, there is a very useful transformation file that renders the file in a readable html format (it only needs to be placed in the same path of xml file when it is being opened by your browser)....

I am currently in Salamanca, Spain and besides how beautiful this city is, I had a talk about current status of Cloud interoperability. The presentation file is available here. Cloud Interoperability Cloud Interoperability from Amir Mohtasebi

Googling for using Linked Server functionality in SQL server to link a MySQL database returns lots of results. However, reaching a final answer may take 5 or 6 hours of cursing. Below, I am describing my adventure hope saving you some curse: 1) Install “MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver” Connector for ODBC [here] 2) Go to ODBC Data Source Administrator (Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Data Sources (ODBC)) 3) Add a new System DSN:...

Today 6th December 2011, dates my first year anniversary in this company. Since I was a teen, my dream was to work in a big enterprise as a tech lead and now I have it (at that time we praised BillG not SteveJ). Working in these big companies is a little different from working for a small local company (my previous job) or working on your own start-up. I experienced:...