If you get this error
the page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred
most possible source of error would be something is wrong on your web.config settings.

To know which version of silver is installed in your computer simply go to this page

UDF (user defined function) to strip off html tags from a string in MS SQL.

If you have a dedicated server and you need to add an additional ip address, first thing to do is request for the additional ip address from the hosting company. Often time they would not hook it with your server, they would just give it to you.

When you design database tables care should be taken selecting the type of integer columns. If you predict there is chances to have big numbers on the integer column, consider bigint or int accordingly.

I was working with the Paypal sandbox to test a Paypal application for a client. I was using IPN for the payment notification from PayPal so I could update member record on database. While testing I was getting the payment_status value Pending.

There are a lot of rumor around regarding Google and Twitter. Some tech news websites are reporting Google buying Twitter, some reporting Google and Twitter partnering together. Its all started when Google created an account at Twitter.No matter what its a win-win situation for  Twitter.
Twitter gets the most out of this:

Free news coverage from the rumor. This is a damn smart marketing trick. This “Rumor Game” worked pretty good getting Twitter a huge momentum.
Solid income for Twitter if they partner with Google. Even if Twitter eventually gets no …

With bad economy looming around the world cyber crime seem to be becoming a bigger problem. In 2008 online crime increased by 33% over the year before, 2007.
2008   $264.6 Million
2007   $239.1 Million
……….
2001   $18 Million
What a jump from 2001 to 2008.
The most common complaint of 2008 was non-delivery of promised merchandise, followed by auction fraud, credit card fraud and investment scams, according to the report.
Scammers in the United States comprised 66 percent of complaints referred to authorities, followed by Britain at 11 percent, Nigeria 7.5 percent, Canada 3 percent and …

Recently FireFox been enjoying substantial growth in number of users. IE the opposite, just slipping more down by the percentage of users using it.
With the number of users growing for FireFox, there is another problem surfacing; attack.
When IE dominated more then 80% of the browser marketshare not much hackers care about FireFix, because there been less stake in it. Now that things are changing, hackers seem to be getting more and more interested in FireFox. Recently there was a unpatched flaw detected in  FireFox which is to be fixed next …

Bad economy seem to be effecting everybody in some ways, webmasters included. I used to earn enough money from the websites that gave me flexibility to run my sites covering costs for marketing, hosting etc.
Last two months incomes been down by 40%! One of the factors effected my income is change of hosting for my best earning site; it caused the site not working properly for about a month. Then bad economy added up.
How do you survive in bad economy? After giving some thought I went for the basics, cut …