So here’s the situation – you have your domain name (ex: mydomain.com) and you want to improve your SEO rankings by redirecting the following two url’s to the same address…. http://mydomain.com and http://www.mydomain.com. So how do you do it on IIS 7 and using an ASP.NET application. FYI – I use a shared hosting (Windows platform) at GoDaddy and this solution works.  The following article best describes it. In a nutshell, you modify your web.config to handle the redirect. Check it out.

http://blogs.iis.net/carlosag/archive/2008/09/02/iis-7-0-and-url-rewrite-make-your-web-site-seo.aspx

Example: web.config

<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name=”Redirect to WWW” stopProcessing=”true”>
          <match url=”.*” />
          <conditions>
            <add input=”{HTTP_HOST}” pattern=”^mydomain.com$” />
          </conditions>
          <action type=”Redirect” url=”http://www.mydomain.com/{R:0}” redirectType=”Permanent” />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Now when you hit http://mydomain.com you will be redirected to http://www.mydomain.com and your SEO rankings will not take a hit for having two ambiguous addresses.  I hope this helps!

Real quickly – If you’ve installed the Headway Theme into your WordPress Blog web site and once you’ve left the dashboard you can’t get back in…. here’s what to do…

Log back in – and when you click the “Log In” button if it brings you back to the Log In page… here’s the trick…. You are already logged in!!!!! the url is just malformed…. simply adjust the url to http://www..com/wp-admin/ and you will be automatically taken to the dashboard !!! I don’t know if this is a GoDaddy issue or not, but that’s who I use as my hosting company and I know Headway had challenges with GoDaddy before.

Other solutions on the internet were saying to log in via FTP and remove the Headway folder, but that is not necessary…

I hope this helps someone else,
Rock on!

This is a relatively ambiguous error that seems to pop up frequently when first learning LINQ. It took a lot of hunting around on the web to finally come up with an appropriate response to what the issue is. Here’s a link to the article that I found most useful.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/linqprojectgeneral/thread/bf98ec7a-cb80-4901-8eb2-3aa6636a4fde

Basically, in LINQ, you need to use an anonymous type in order to JOIN b ased on two (or more) columns. Additionally, and where my confusion was, was that you need to “ALIAS” your columns if they are not named the same thing in your two tables (objects).

example LINQ JOIN clause :
…. on new { p.FirstName, p.LastName } equals new { FirstName = q.FName, LastName = q.LName } ….

Note the “=” sign in the above C# example, it is not an “==”. The “=” sign is aliasing the column name!

I hope this helps!

Here is a link to the best article I found for how to setup your email (for a “Contact Us” page) in WordPress.

http://angstrey.com/index.php/2009/07/20/contact-form-7s-failed-to-send-your-message-error/

Weirdest solution I had to learn the hard way….

Oracle ODP Provider for .NET likes to have the parameters of the OracleCommand object added in the same order as they appear in the declaration of the stored procedure (Package/Package Body) in the database.

Oracle will throw ambiguous errors regarding datatypes not matching or missing arguments – it’s really difficult to trouble shoot, but the answer is to simply sync the parameters order in the OracleCommand object with the order they appear in the database (on the signature of the stored procedure).

HTH – Dave

The best source of Excel “How-To” stuff that I’ve found on the web is the following.

http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html

It’s got lots of great information….check it out!