So I received a letter from my ISP provider announcing that as part of an upgrade on their network, I had been given a free upgrade in speed for the same price I am currently paying. My first reaction was in a form of a "sweet!" but I really did not go and worry about it at once. Then last Saturday, while working on my home PC, it occurred to me that I should check my…

I wanted to write a quick post about how I exported my local Funnelweb [http://www.funnelweblog.com/]'s database version, mainly so that I can Google/Bing myself later and remember what I did. I could have deployed to my host and do everything there, Funnelweb [http://www.funnelweblog.com/] definitely supports it. However, since I am planning to contribute to this project, I arranged a local set up with Visual Studio, developed my theme…

At the beginning of this year I made the goal to come back to blogging, not as a New Year resolution per se, but more as something I have been feeling the need to do. Writing has been very difficult to me. Looking at a white blank page is very daunting for someone that learned English as a second language. However, as a professional developer I have always seen blogging as something missing in my career.…

As usual, I procastinated this news. A few weeks ago, on October 10th, 2009, I passed the Microsoft 70-562 exam towards the MCTS certification. I am now officially Microsoft Certified on ASP.NET 3.5. I wanted to share a bit about my testing experience. I had bought the training kit for Microsoft, "MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit Exam 70-562" [http://www.amazon.com/MCTS-Self-Paced-Training-Exam-70-562/dp/073562562X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258558040&…

Welcome! After a few tries, I got this BlogEngine.NET system working under my current hosting provider, 1and1 [https://www.1and1.com]. It was not an easy thing to do; for some reasons they only allow default.asp as starting page and ASP.NET starts with Default.aspx. The solution, redirection. I created a default.asp file and put this code in it: <%EnableSessionState=False host = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST") if host = "janierdavila.com" or host…