William Duffy

Glasgow Based ASP.NET Web Developer

Post archive for ‘Windows Server’

Monitoring Database Connections

If you don’t close your database connections you can take down your server in a few minutes, that’s fact! But closing database connections is something that beginners can very easily forget. Here I will show you how to monitor database connections to SQL Server and ensure that your code is not draining the connection pool [...]

Friendly Wordpress URL Permalinks on Windows IIS

As an ASP.NET guy I’ve never really had to worry about url rewriting using 3rd party components due to the fact that I can easily write my own HttpModule that handles url rewriting in the request pipeline.
You can imagine the fun I had setting up this blog then, since it’s running PHP on IIS. Because [...]