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Native SQL Backup And Restores on AWS RDS

Amazon recently announced the availability of native backups to and from RDS for MS SQL. This is fantastic news for those of us used to working in the SQL world. More importantly, it provides a MUCH easier way to move your SQL data into and out of your RDS instance(s). While getting things set up …

Google Apps is now G Suite

In perhaps the 3rd (or 4th name change) for Google Apps for Work, we no present G Suite! All the same great applications bundled together under a new name.

How to Get Your Business On Google

Your first step, before you spend any money on SEO or Local SEO should be to learn the basics of Google My Business and get your listing into Google’s index. Next, once you are listed, you should ensure that your website is properly SEO’d for a local business (topic for a future post) Lastly, you might …

IIS, AWS ELB and SSL - Why can't we all just get along?

Recently found myself in the position of having to set up an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) in front of our EC2 instance that is running Windows Server 2012R2. This means the server is running IIS v8.5. Normally this would not be a problem except that we wanted to run SSL on the load balanced …

First OS Contribution Goes Live

My first contribution to someone else’s open source project has been accepted and gone live! To be fair, it was my first attempt at contributing and I can assure you it won’t be my last. The project is the WordPress plugin List Category Post. We found ourselves using this a lot on client sites but …

URL Checking and SSL Versions

Using Asp.Net to check if a URL is correct and actually exists? Getting false negatives on some SSL connections? Then this might help.