Nice Boys and Girls

02 April 2006   12:06 PM

Yes, in case you're not aware, the nice boys and girls at Microsoft have made the Visual Studio 2005 express editions free to download and use. These are obviously cut-down versions - including a cut-down version of SQL Server 2005, but all the same, very nice and much appreciated.

Well, I say free. Technically it costs $49 but if you download it on or before 7th November 2006, you don't have to pay for it, nor will you need to pay after this date provided you downloaded it beforehand. Actually, come to think of it, that still sounds pretty free to me...so thank you to the nice boys and girls at Microsoft.

Anyway, as a result of this I thought that maybe I should try some dot Nettery at ThePickards, and got in touch with my hosting company to find out if I could, and what would be involved. Those of you who have heard about my dealings with my hosting company will probably guess the answer.

The server you're currently hosted on doesn't support it. But we can move you to a newer server which does. There won't be any downtime but it might take up to 48 hours for the DNS propagation to complete. Let us know if you want to go ahead. So once again I find myself in the position of offering a thank you to the nice boys and girls at Titan Internet.

And keep an eye out for the occasional .aspx page which will mean my dot Nettery has started to go live. Although I imagine it will be a while before the existing content gets re-written.