Sep 01 2007
Came across this fresh posting at an MSDN blog about free ASP.NET developer hosting at Verio until Jan 2010. The price is right. In the late nineties, I was partner in a business that hosted with Verio, and was never happy with their service, but getting something for nothing is definitely a better deal.
Aug 28 2007
Over the years I’ve used several browsers. I liked Opera and only switched to Firefox because they had a version (7 or 8 ) which was a real pain to install. But it ran fast and even though early Firefox versions were supposed to be quick, I never had the same feeling. For the last month or so, my main Windows browser has been K-Meleon. Like Firefox, it’s based on the Gecko engine, so everything renders beautifully, but it’s much barer and faster - None of the recent Firefox memory leak bloats. Unless you are wedded to some Firefox extensions, I’d suggest giving it a try. I still use Firefox for Firebug and the Web Developer bar plugins but straightforward surfing is all in K-Meleon.
It won’t be entirely painless. A few of the keyboard shortcuts are different, and some Flash content doesn’t load (YouTube has no problem), but I’ve had no problem with any Ajax apps and it is worth it for me.