http://www.kevinlewisblog.com All about CODE - VB.net, ASP.net, SQL Server, and everything in between Fri, 30 May 2008 22:28:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have a client which offers data recovery and computer forensics services. I am very happy to say that I have not been in need of their service (knock on wood). We recently ran into a very strange problem with their site dropping completely out of google's index. My first instinct ... http://www.kevinlewisblog.com/seo/computer-forensics/ I just wanted to give a shout out to one of my clients. They are probably the most "green" company I have ever worked with. We recently developed a custom accounting system for them. This reduced their paper usage by over 60%. They are no longer faxing/mailing reports between their ... http://www.kevinlewisblog.com/general/sod/ If you manage windows servers, or access remote desktops you should be using the Remote Desktops mmc plugin that comes in the Administration Tools Pack. The standard remote desktop application that comes with Windows XP is OK, but this one makes it much easier to manage multiple machines, and to ... http://www.kevinlewisblog.com/server/remote-desktops-mmc-with-alternate-rdp-port/ I decided to cleanup my old UPS Webservice Rate Calculation code, and implement some XML literals as well as Linq to XML. The below code is much easier to understand and maintain. I love the new xml syntax for accessing elements. Private Function GetShippingMethodsFromWeb(ByVal ZipTo As String, ByVal Weight As Integer) ... http://www.kevinlewisblog.com/linq/linq-to-ups-to-calculate-shipping-rates/ What were you doing this day (May 15th) in the year 2000? I spent 6 hours working on a redesign of PowerComEnergy.com, 0.4 hours working on LubeSource.com, and 0.3 hours fixing bugs on BestBolts.com. You may be wondering how I know this. And yes, I do have a really good memory – ... http://www.kevinlewisblog.com/general/track-billable-hours/ As a small software development shop, we have always used VSS. At first we had VPN issues so we jumped through all of the hoops to get it running on IIS with their provided webservice, But then it was always a pain getting a new project added to VSS properly ... http://www.kevinlewisblog.com/general/why-i-dumped-visual-sourcesafe/ In my opinion, SQL Profiler is one of the least known and yet most powerful programmer tools out there. For those of you unfamiliar with Profiler, it basically lets you watch under the hood of your application to see all of the calls to your SQL database. It not only ... http://www.kevinlewisblog.com/sql/sql-server-profiler/