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IIS7.x, Server Farms and Ruby

(Caution: Ruby application names are as prolific, esoteric and funny as Microsoft code names) The previous post (broadly) demonstrated how to use a combination of URL Rewrite and FastCGI to put a Ruby on Rails application on IIS7.5 . As Rails , Merb ( Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 7:20 PM by nhodge | 4 Comments

Windows 7, IIS 7.5 and Ruby on Rails

Having spent the weekend working on Ruby on Rails with IIS/SQLServer 2008 Express backend via FastCGI, here are some tips to get you going: The best resource is Ruslan’s post on Rails and IIS7 . In fact, go and bookmark this site right now. In Ruslan’s Read More...

Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 2:50 PM by nhodge | 1 Comments

Demos and Links from Edge of the Web, Nov’08 Perth

During the 50 minutes of presentation (including at least 9 ICHC images), I demonstrated the following bits and pieces of open source and or free Microsoft bits. Demo set 1: Web Standards Live Mesh Mobile : take photo to mesh on laptop MacOS X 10.5 client Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:08 PM by nhodge | 1 Comments

Vista as my PHP Developer Workstation

Prior to joining Microsoft, I always setup my Windows laptop as a PHP/Apache development workstation. Having created my own content management system in PHP (and who hasn’t!) – having a remote development copy is critical. Over the last few weeks, I have Read More...

Posted Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:30 PM by nhodge | 3 Comments

In Which I Get My Own IIS7

Thanks to our resident Hosting Geek: Jorke , I have an internet-facing Windows 2008 / IIS7 web site. Yes, Jorke is a brave man. After logging in via Remote Desktop and changing my password, it is off and away on this funny experience with Windows IIS Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:28 PM by nhodge | 3 Comments