Often times when dealing in ASP.NET (or even classic ASP), you need to know when events fire in IIS to know how to handle them.  I have often Googled this when working on a project and there are rafts of documentation out there, but here's a quick primer:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/PageLifeCycle.aspx

So you're too cheap (practical) to buy a data plan for your phone or you left it at home and all you have is your partner's?  Try this link for handy online utilities to use with texting!  (NOTE: while some plans come with unlimiting text, most come with a predefined or no texting and to upgrade or going over your number of text messages will cost!)

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9079840&pageNumber=2

 

Also, check out the authors blog on CNET: VERY nice; its going in our favorites!

http://www.cnet.com/cheapskate/

With energy and gas prices on the extreme end, the are RAFTS of articles on this, this ComputerWorld article below has some simple things to look at.  Some have mutually exclusive applications for servers or for workstations, but its still worth looking at.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9079498

There are some easier ways to accomplish this (which the article "says" is more complicated) - most notably and easily the Security Settings on the local machine (if you want to know how to do it, contact us! ) and then using the axbrowser in your .NET application.  However, this is a quick & dirty way to get it done if you don't have quick and easy access to the security policies and/or physical machine:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/scottlysle/KioskCS01292008011606AM/KioskCS.aspx

ITIL stands for IT Infrastructure Library, and I'm sure anyone googling it will see this truism: IT is so new of a profession with so few firm rules for operation and results, companies and individuals not familiar with it will have a hard time navigating and developing benchmarks for good service and output. Ah ha - enter ITIL, the early equivalent (in philosophy if not form) of the GAAP for accounting! ITIL was started pre-2000 in Britain (PLENTY of info on this out there) and they've just release v3 to the general public. Expect to hear more about this here as we spin up on ITIL v3!

Here is the link to order your (extremely expensive) copy!
http://www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp?DI=583769

Yes, there really is yet another VOIP Provider getting into what cannot be a very profitable and obviously a crowded space. However, this one is interesting for a couple of reasons:

1) Hardware: A USB dongle attaches to your computer and the software (what we can assume to be the gateway/transcoder) is loaded.

2) Even though that software is loaded and can be used as a softphone, the USB dongle also has a regular Cat3 jack so you can plug in your phone or reverse-wire it into your house for all of your phone s(call us if you want this done!).

3) First-year hardware costs AND service together is $40 while the following years are $20. Folks that is PER YEAR - not month. Unfortunately, they do not yet have phone numbers for our up-and-coming home, but we'll be trying this as soon as they do! Note, there is not currently any way to get multiple lines or advanced features - its a home phone (though you can use it for business if you want by their own Terms of Service) and it looks like they aim to keep it that way, but with competitive pressures in this overstaturated space, who knows?

It is MagicJack: http://www.magicjack.com/!

Wow! This is something we could have used over-and-over! I opened this article up expecting to see a 2005/2008 SQL CLR code, but no - it is in "pure" T-SQL (MS's rendition anyway). 2 little know built-in stored procedures provide the interface: xp_dirtree and xp_create_subdir.

MyLittleAdmin (http://www.mylittleadmin.com/) is a web-based MS SQL Admin application that purports to do all MS Enterprise Manager (EM) or MS Sql Server Management Studio Express (SSMESE if you like LONG acronyms!) can do. The concept of managing your SQL server from Remote is enough to make many ASP's sit up and take notice, but we could see some good application down to the single-server level. Caveat - it is not cheap ($299-595 for single-SQL-server version), but especially in a hosted environment if it lives up to its hype, it could be a great tool.

We've been faced countless times with a Pentium II or III that runs great, but will not run the latest software - who hasn't? If you have a Terminal Server or want remote access to your XP+ machine somewhere else in the house or office, you can reuse that machine with the Linux-based ThinStation! They claim a small footprint easy for old machines to run, and the lack of anti-viral software (though you could use CLAM or other open source) probably will never be an issue since it is Linux.

Best of all... its free! We haven't tried this yet, but we're going to!

http://www.thinstation.org/

While all of these are not strictly speaking purely for SQL, they do have all kinds of relations to SQL Admin. Check out their list of useful tools:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2959/