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Archive for May, 2004
Web Gardens
May 14th
IIS6 Has a fancy new feature called web gardens, this helps keep the uptime on a site.
For those of you who write websites and have generally only written for a single server (there are people who do this, intranets, small sites etc) then you have to bear in mind that this makes your application work like a Web Farm. If you store stuff in Cache or Session or Application, there are (N) copies (where N is web garden number) all seperate from one another.
Having seen the setting for web garden in the Application Pool and realising its impact, its a little too simple to change, now help text, no warning (“did you design this application for split deployment ?”).
Just a thought.
Guide to Drinking in british pubs
May 11th
Raymond Chen posted a link on his blog to an article detailing, and I mean detail, about the etiquette for drinking in British Pubs, a guide to the non-brit
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/10/129069.aspx
I did post a comment but left it without an ID, shameful of me. I’m SimonT by the way, partly because I can’t decide what my online persona is nowadays.
Am I SimonTocker, SimonT or Deadboy. I suppose Im getting a bit old for deadboy * now that I’m thrity five but it’s been with me a while now. So if you see a post from any of these then it might be me, but frmo now on I will try to ensure that I but the blog link.
* This was a nickname given to me in my early twenties working at an IT dept in Birmingham(UK) that was opposite a cemetary, The guys reckoned that I was so pale and needed sunshine (I am a sad old goth), and the HR department didn’t so much as go on a recruitment drive to get me but went out with shovels and dug me up from opposite the company.