August 29, 04 by kenrich
Currently, I am making some minor changes to a web portal software I have developed called: ASP Nuke. It has been at least a year since my last update to this software and despite my best efforts it still has some major flaws. I hope to rectify all of these problems with the next release.
One of the features that I am most proud of is switching from supporting only Microsoft SQL Server to supporting both MySQL and SQL Server. This will allow people to use my software who don’t have access to SQL Server or can’t afford it. It should enhance the popularity and support of my open source software.
When I first built the project, I asked for donations from people who
found the software useful. Well I guess that nobody found it useful
because I received no contributions from others. I guess I will just have to be content with the traffice I receive and the advertising benefits. I will post a message on here when the next release is made to this powerful web portal.
August 28, 04 by kenrich
Today I fixed a few bugs in my site (Orvado DNS) with the help of my fancy error handling script. I have a custom URL defined (in IIS) that is loaded whenever an IIS server error occurs (error code: 500). From this script I can enumerate all of the Request.ServerVariables and place these in an e-mail that gets sent to myself. Along with this, I send the error information that includes the line number and error message that occurred.
Although this doesn’t catch every single error that can possibly be thrown by the server, it does track down some particularly nasty errors that I otherwise would have been oblivious to. It basically makes it so that all the users that come to your site act like testers and debuggers and will help get your site running smooth in no time.
If you are ambitious, you can setup your ASP error handling script to send an e-mail to a paging service that will page you the instance a script error occurs. This will allow you to provide immediate customer support to your web visitors and it might even help you learn when your site has been taken down by a malicious hacker. Trust me, I’ve been running a script like this for two years and it is invaluable for tracking down and fixing bugs.
August 26, 04 by kenrich
After thinking about it for a while, I finally figured out how to
implement the dynamic DNS hosting for Orvado DNS. I even wrote a little article about this and posted it on my site at: http://dns.orvado.com/reference/dynamicdns.asp
In order to offer this service to my customers, I will have to create
little services or cron jobs in Unix that will detect the IP address
assigned to the computer and notify Orvado DNS when the IP address
changes. For most people this will be the time when their server restarts (reboots.) I will probably write the Unix code as a PHP executable since that’s what most people like to use under Unix and then write the windows service as a VB command-line app.
Hopefully, after I get this finished, I can do some serious marketing for my Orvado DNS web site. We definitely need to get some money rolling into this business to help plan for the future. I will keep you updated in the near future fearless readers. Until then, Hasta La Vista!
August 18, 04 by kenrich
Well, my vacation starts today, or rather it started last night. A little bit unpleasantly because as soon as I sat down to do some work on my web sites, the Internet connection was broken. Spending over an hour trying to fix it plus more time this morning – I discovered that the problem was with my ISP – Roadrunner (Time Warner) San Diego. Forked me very much!
Well, needless to say, I haven’t gotten much done today. Good news is that my new site: dns.orvado.com
finally got listed in Google. Probably due more to me placing links to the site on my other (already indexed) sites than submitting the site to Google. Hopefully the other search engines will follow suit.
Today is my brother’s birthday and we are going out this evening. Won’t have too much time to work on my sites tonight. I’m hoping to get a new edition of my open-source web portal launched in the next few days. More details on that in the future.
August 13, 04 by kenrich
Well, it’s Friday (Thank God) and one of the projects I have been
working on for quite a long while is finally ready for launch. The
project was to create a public DNS web site which allows people to sign-up and receive free DNS hosting. Of course if you want to host an entire zone (Top-Level Domain Name), you need to pay a nominal fee.
It is fully functional at this point although there are still lots of
enhancements I need to make to the site. It should be pretty popular with people who are developing their own web site especially if they don’t have access to DNS servers of their own. Please give it a try if you’d like at dns.orvado.com.
