Have you ever realized how difficult url rewrite can be in ASP.NET which is hosted in IIS?
If you are coding php and hosting it on an apache server, your job is pretty easy. You may just write appropriate
matchings for your urls ( this is typically done by regular expressions ) in htaccess file. However this is not just that easy on IIS. You may ask, why the subject contains “ASP.NET”, this is because IIS is just used to host ASP.NET in usual. You may host ASP.NET on your apache, but the hosting firms in the market do not use apache servers for ASP.NET. They use IIS.

Url rewriting can be made in few ways, with ISAPI modules, or you may configure IIS to direct .html or anyother extensions to ASP.NET dll. However you need to access your IIS server.If you are using a shared hosting like me , you may be disappointed but you should accept that you can only do url rewrites which ends in .aspx extension, because IIS directs .aspx extensions to asp.net dll, and your custom rewrites in your global.asax will run before IIS gives an “404 Not Found Error”.

Yes I hate .aspx/.php or any other extensions different than .html. Not only me prefer .html , but also Google prefers .html extensions, and most likely to index that pages.Briefly the same situation can happen if you host php on IIS (which is pretty a dumb action to do), as a result this is not related but .NET, but again If we consider php/apache bros. they gain +1 against asp.net/IIS .

Technorati Tags: ASP.NET, URL Rewrite, IIS, PHP, Apache

Why Nokia E65 ?
There are many reasons, especially WiFi. If you are looking for a WiFi phone, E65 is the best choice currently.Just because many other phones with WiFi have stupidly high price. Consider N95, if you are not going to use a 5 MegaPixel camera, why would you buy that phone for a fortune ?

In E65 there is a 2-Megapixel camera which is pretty enough for most shots. Beside WiFi, and its acceptable price there are many other advantages like its OS. E65 uses symbian S60 3rd version. This means you will likely to use MSN instant messenger (Windows Live), check your Gmail inbox, surf the web with a pretty nice browser.Also E65 comes with lots of useful applications, to aid your business like word,excel,powerpoint(also you may use E65 as a remote controller for presentations) and pdf applications, welcome to E65 pocket office.Since it is Symbian S60 3rd version, there are incredibly many applications for your taste, gaming, office, personal, internet, security and many others.Travellers will really like this phone.It comes with navigation apps, you may connect to your gps with bluetooth or use network to locate your position and draw a path to other location and you may also use Nokia maps application for a detailed road map of your city.

Briefly this phone is for those who wants internet,instant messaging, emailing, office and gaming, this phone is a little computer in your pocket.

Technorati Tags: Nokia, E65

Finally I returned to blogging after a long while, during this holiday I havefound time to do many things.In the following days you will find manydifferent articles on variety of topics.Thanks to all for your the patience.See you soon,Burak.

Technorati Tags: Holiday, Break

If you have a laptop or hand-held device with internet connection, then you are lucky that you are able to blog in peace. Human brain thinks in a different way on resting. This means that when you are on a holiday, you may be more creative and think different. This is like a natural brain storming. You can use this as a nice way to boost your blogging. Just carry your laptop or hand-held with you whenever possible. Put your ideas into your favourite text editor. Collecting and organizing ideas is a beginning of an article.When you have enough ideas then you can start expand each idea to cover the topic. You may come across with different ideas when you are on a holiday. So it is a better way if you carry at least a paper and a pen with you, because you don’t know when lighting strikes in your head. So if you have time to sit and drink something, then you can think about your ideas and expand them to form the story.

List:

• Carry your laptop/hand-held with you
• Collect ideas
• Write down the ideas you collected
• Organize them
• Drink something, complete the story

Technorati Tags: Vacation, Blogging, Holiday, Boost

I have made a special tool called ” Multiple Find & Replace ” . This tool will help you with working many files, especially if you are coder and want to change the same thing on multiple files, so this little tool will save your time. What is special about this tool is that it supports regular expressions, so you can use a regular expression to specify what you want to change. It also creates auto-backups and then replaces the backups if you want. In a log window you can easily track which files you have opened and what how many replacements made on this files. This little ” Multiple Find & Replace ” tool is completely free! But I will appreciate if you donate some penny , below there is a screen shot of the tool. (You have to have .NET 2.0 Framework to be installed.)

Download Now Multiple Find & Replace.rar (Compressed - 32 KB)

Technorati Tags: Multiple, File, Search, Find, Replace

Many bloggers are hopeless, they just work hard and run their blogs for months, but they still don’t get any valuable amount of visitors. This is just because something is wrong with your content. Maybe the most anticipated subject by bloggers.Catching a good content and idea must not be so easy, because among those millions of bloggers only some of them earn much.Problogger,John Chow,etc..

So have you ever think that what if you spend your time on your content rather than your design? Probably you will start to get some loyal readers, and your feed chicklet will show a number greater than 10. If you still lack of ideas what may your content be, you have to ask for yourself, you know the things that you are better on.

Searching other sites, browsing many blogs in your niche can be very helpful, to do so, get a feedreader, add your favorite blog feeds and it will be much more easier to follow many blogs.This week Problogger touched an interesting point Go Shopping and Improve Your Blog , this was really an interesting experiment for me. He asked for his readers go shopping, observe the people and note their ideas about what is going on around. Problogger himself did the same thing, he went the nearest shopping center and catched some ideas. The most important point is that he related the ideas with blogging.

An example is :

3. Lines and Waiting in Queues Kill Customer Loyalty

(He related this with slow load times of sites.)

To catch some ideas, the only thing is to look around something, go away from your computer.Think about your content, how to improve it, or maybe you have to change your niche.You have to know your professions and skills, and choose your niche accordingly.People who are successful are the people who aware of their environment, having a good reasoning, and relating every experience with their jobs by catching common points.
Sitting and waiting will not inspire you, do different things and read a lot.

Tags: Content

Many of the newbies (once I was a newbie too) are suffering from weird file extensions and what are they for? They are just tired of Google hopelessly to find some thing about .xyz .abc. But what is this FileStuff for? It is easy and pratic, just bookmark this url http://www.filestuff.co.uk and use the search box on the left upper side for searching a file extension, so do not waste on time for searching on search engines.The site has some great features besides searching extensions, you can also search for softwares to find out their file extensions.You may be a software developer and you want to publish your software’s file extension, so you can do it simply by filling the form on this page http://www.filestuff.co.uk/add-file-ext.html. Just try !

Tags: Extensions, File, FileStuff

It is said that WGA servers are out since last friday. XP and Vista users are having problems with their installations during verifying their original copies.Microsoft WGA forums are full of problem reports. I think microsoft got a irresponsibility, because such important servers have to be controlled and checked hourly basis, otherwise millions of windows users encounter these unnecessary problems.

News Source : http://www.techblogger.org/2007/08/25/windows-genuine-advantage-servers-out/

Tags: Advantage, Genuine, Microsoft, Problems, Server

A 17 years old teenager George Hotz unlocked iPhone, and he used it on T-Online not AT&T. George claims that with 12 hours of patience and with a soldering gun everyone can unlock an iPhone. His phone is just about to be sold to $4000 on eBay. He just started auction from $500 and many people bided on the phone.

Here some photos of the phone

Tags: Auction, eBay, George, Hotz, iPhone, Unlocked

News Source : http://www.techblogger.org/2007/08/24/iphone-freed-from-att-twice/

A small win32 application code that was taken from http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/ . Great win32 tutorial for beginners, nowadays I am interested in win32 api programming and found this site from google, here the code piece:

#include <windows.h>

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
MessageBox(NULL, “Goodbye, cruel world!”, “Note”, MB_OK);
return 0;
}

Yes, this is a way of saying “Hello World” in win32 api
Maybe I’ll add some small tools in the future if I can learn, it is pretty hard and complicated.

Tags: Api, Win32