Every blogger wants to make a big splash in social media; I think landing on the front page of Digg is the number 1 prized cow for any blogger or website operator in terms of rapid traffic acquisition. I’ve discussed how impactful a massive traffic surge can be on a blog’s readership and traffic before.
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10 Hot ASP.NET Tips and Tricks for the week of 9/28/2007. Includes boosting visual studio 2005 for enhanced productivity, server side redirects into a new window, master page hacks, speeding up your ASP.NET applications by stripping out extra HTTP handlers, page modules, and partial methods. Click here to check out last week’s 10 Hot [...]

I received an email early this morning from an AjaxNinja reader asking for advice:
I graduated this year with my MBA. I have an idea for a start-up but most of my background is in business. I’m currently in the process of building a presentation that I will send to CRV-quickstart program, and the FbFund [...]

My post from the previous week on why .NET is getting its ass kicked in social media precipitated a massive storm of comments and debate.
Some of the issues brought up during that discussion, namely that the licensing costs of .NET-technologies serve as a major barrier to wide-scale adoption of .NET for high tech start ups, [...]

Have any of you ever spent hours trying to get Apache, PHP, and MySQL set up and configured properly? Lord knows the first couple of times I tried it took me HOURS. After a couple of years of experience I’ve found some tools that make the process infinitely easier and today I’m going to share [...]

I mentioned in my post about why I love DiscountASP.NET that I had been with a previous host for several years before I decided to switch. I spent a lot of time carefully evaluating other hosting options before I settled on DiscountASP.NET, and I’m going to go ahead and share the basic features that I [...]

Originally I was going to break up this article into several smaller parts, but I think my readers would appreciate getting to the good stuff right away. On Friday I mentioned the immediate impact that the Lifehacker traffic tsunami had on AjaxNinja and today I’m going to talk about how you can surf a traffic [...]

One day when I was perusing Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger I came across a post titled How to Surf Blog Traffic Tsunamis; in the post Darren describes the experience of striking gold in social media outlets and other high-traffic blogs:
This morning I wake up to find that it’s one of the most popular posts on delicious, [...]

Maybe I’m just not looking hard enough, but does it seem like .NET is getting blown out by PHP, JAVA, and even Ruby in terms of presence in social media outlets?
I started this blog partially to evangelize the .NET platform because I think it’s simply more complete and robust than mere scripting languages like PHP, [...]

Every week or two I am going to try to throw together a feature list of 10 ASP.NET articles that I’ve found interesting or have been referred to by my readers, so I’ll start with 10 hot ASP.NET tips for today, 9/17/2007.

Try… Catch… Now What - Summarizes how a lot of try catch blocks are [...]