I’ve never hosted with PowerDNN. I have no idea why their services are so -- “Expensive.” I also hate spammers. And scammers. So tell me people; what is it that I have missed about PowerDNN? Is it a ripoff? What’s with all the TVs and Giveaways spamming my DNN search tabs on twitter? Are people really stupid? Or is it just me?

A proof of how quickly time flies asserts itself around this time of the year when it is time to renew the SSL certificate used for SMTP, POP and IMAP services on Exchange Server 2007. It is surprising however that the documentation on how to do so is still scarce and hard to come by, nearly 3 years since I embarked on the original installation. What is more intriguing however -- I end up doing the same mistakes every year. This time, I’m going to outline the  whole process.

Here’s how to use GoDaddy’s SSL certificates with Exchange Server 2007 and ISA Server 2006.

Planning for that much awaited vacation? Expect boss to come up with a work-during-weekends-plan.

Never been late on payments? Expect your credit card company to jack up the interest rates.

Thinking of saving some money by moving to Vonage? Expect AT&T to hit you with a $1000+ bill.

Planning on flying after a long time? Expect Obama to pay a visit and lockout the entire airspace.

Hoping Bipin or Ashok would show up on the weekends? They’d get too darned busy to even say “See ya sucker.”

It’s done! It’s over. Goodbye DNN Blog, Hello SpeedBlog.

Written from grounds-up, SpeedBlog is my own platform for writing blogs and articles.

Now, now I’m not going to say much except for quoting purely-narcotic - “Normal blogging shall resume soon.”

This was bound to happen. But it didn’t have to. For an open source framework like DotNetNuke, so powerful and widely adopted, yet blogging or even publishing an article was an after-thought. In the OpenSource world they say, “The product has to be absolutely top-notch to succeed” and yet instead of harnessing and shoring up on the success of DNN, the Blog module stands there, lackluster in every sense, reeking of neglect, derelict, unending wait  except for the oohs and aahs of what’s about to come in the next version.

Microsoft Windows 7 is now in RC. For those of you excited by the new OS, here’s a first look at the Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate install process on Hyper V.

Total time to install : less than 30 minutes, including answering the Setup wizard.

Verdict: Highly recommended if you’re on XP; wait for the final version if you’re on Vista.

“There is life before solo, and there is life after solo” – Scott Rohlfing.

When you have an instructor confident enough that you are ready to be kicked out of the nest, things can change from unnerving to confident very dramatically.

Just coz I keep forgetting should mean somebody somewhere is looking for this information too. Just wishing the install process for team Foundation were to be a straightforward isn’t enough. Here, here is the walkthrough just for the keepsakes. No, it is not at all a bad idea to keep source control virtualized, in fact it could be advantageous simply because it can be isolated even further due to the virtual setup.