10 years is a long time, especially for a young person. In my case, 10 years is 40% of my life. Let’s stand back and think about that for a moment – for 40% of my life I have been keeping a record of my thoughts, feelings and inner-goings on. This would be quite an achievement, if I had managed to do it properly, which unfortunately I have not. There have been quite a few lapses, where posts were few [...]

Pineapple Boudoir is a startup that sells lingerie, candles, sex toys and other products, aimed largely at women. The first challenge was to design an infrastructure to support the web-application and cart. Having previous experience with Windows and the .NET environment we decided to follow this route, based on Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. At launch we are running SQL and IIS on this single server, although we intend to run SQL on a separate [...]