News: Web Hosting Design Tutorial Firm, Template Monster, Continues Halloween Special
Brooklyn, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 24, 2008 - Website template provider, Template Monster, continuing its Halloween Promo, after having launched a holiday discount, is now including a giveaway, offering each customer a free Halloween Iconset.
TemplateMonster.com is offering two special bonuses to its customers. The first is a 15% discount on any Halloween Template purchased between October 9th to October 31st. Additionally, any customer making a purchase from October 17th to October 31st will receive a free, newly designed Halloween Iconset for an immediate $50 savings.
David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster remarked, '''Halloween is the sixth most popular holiday in the US and it is increasing in popularity in other countries as well. The US Census states that in 2005 there were over 36 million potential 'trick-and-treaters' ages 5 to 13 with over 109 million households available to greet them. What we are striving for it to transfer this magnificent holiday mood into the Internet and bring a share of the Halloween to the online audience as well.''
The discounted Halloween templates category also includes a several newly-added designs prepared especially for the Holiday as well as TemplateMonster's classic designs. The templates are available for a variety of websites including e-Commerce sites, Flash and personal blogs.
The 12-piece iconset features a matching Halloween motif. According to the estimates of TemplateMonster analysts the subject icons will be a good incentive for the designers that are a very significant part of their target audience.
TemplateMonster.com provides a broad selection of quality products including website templates, flash templates and design products to help customers and developers alike meet the holiday and everyday needs of their customers.
TemplateMonster.com is the anchor, e-commerce project in web design started in 2002 as a project of Artvertex, Inc. According to the company, it was the first to offer high quality website templates. TemplateMonster.com receives more than 30,000 unique visitors daily, and consistently numbers among the top 1,000 most popular websites on the Internet.
Posted by editor on Friday, October 24 @ 11:26:08 EDT (635 reads)
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News: Search Engine Data from Black Duck Software, Reveals Ruby Popularity Rising
Waltham, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 24, 2008 - Products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, Black Duck Software, has released data from its Koders.com search engine, showing a dramatic rise in Ruby programming popularity.
Tom Copeland, system administrator of RubyForge.org noted, ''Black Duck's search data confirms the tremendous growth that we are seeing within the community of Ruby developers. It's great to see a leading code search site like Koders.com index RubyForge because it represents another way to make the projects in our community available to tens of thousands of developers worldwide.''
Code search with Koders.com represents an essential part of the hybrid model of software development, which enables development teams to reuse open source in combination with their own code and other externally sourced components.
Tens of thousands of software developers use Black Duck's Koders.com daily to find open source code and other downloadable code. More Koders.com users are searching for Ruby code than ever before, according to the Black Duck analysis of Koders.com search requests. Ruby is now the fourth most requested language on Koders.com, after Java, C/C+ and C#.
The number of Ruby searches has increased by more than 20 times since 2004 and has surpassed alternatives, such as PHP, Python and Perl. In addition to code, Koders.com features other resources, such as a developer forum and a monthly statistics page, which lists the top monthly search terms, top projects and a solutions map for eleven popular programming languages ( www.koders.com/stats).
Ruby, used in combination with the Rails framework, is rapidly gaining momentum and will reach 4 million developers worldwide by 2013, according to Mark Driver, research vice president at Gartner Inc. Black Duck acquired Koders.com in April, and since then the company has enhanced the code search service significantly. Black Duck's team recently added over 200 million lines of code to the Koders.com search repository, increasing its size by more than 33 percent. The expanded code base now includes more code from SourceForge, CPAN and the industry's leading site for Ruby projects, RubyForge.org. Source: Gartner Inc., ''Open Source in Programming Languages, Mark Driver, 2008,'' 4-2-2008. ''Moreover, Ruby will enjoy a higher concentration among corporate IT developers than typical, dynamic 'scripting' languages, such as PHP,'' Mr. Driver continued.
Bill McQuaide, Executive Vice President of products and services at Black Duck Software remarked, ''Black Duck remains committed to providing Koders.com as a free service for developers involved in hybrid development. An interesting byproduct of the popularity of Koders.com is the insight we can gain from Koders.com users and the searches they conduct. In addition, this data show part of a larger story--how developers can use Black Duck's offerings to be more effective in using open source within the framework of sound code management practices.''
Hybrid development can make software development far more efficient and ultimately lead to better software applications. Black Duck offers solutions to ensure code is developed free of concerns raised by open source licenses, known security vulnerabilities or corporate policies regarding open source code usage. The company's offerings can manage the entire lifecycle of open source code use for developers.
Black Duck Software is the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Black Duck enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development and maintenance costs while mitigating the risks and challenges associated with open source reuse, including hidden license obligations, security vulnerabilities, unsupported open source and version proliferation. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Hong Kong, as well as distribution partners throughout the world.
Posted by editor on Friday, October 24 @ 11:17:00 EDT (572 reads)
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News: The Planet Web Hosting Firm, Debuts Alpha Managed Backup
Houston, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 23, 2008 - Privately held dedicated hosting company, The Planet, has launched its Alpha Managed Backup, as an advanced services offering, to provide a fully customizable solution.
Todd Mitchell, General Manager for advanced services of The Planet noted, ''There's an almost-daily report of data loss at companies around the world, which can easily lead to a loss of revenue, as well as significant reputation damage. With Alpha Managed Backup, customers gain peace of mind by leaving the management of their data protection to a team of seasoned professionals. Our dedicated Advanced Services team ensures that customer servers are consistently backed up, safeguarding against critical data loss.''
The new Advanced Services offering is designed to provide customers with managed backup for dedicated server data. The product is the fourth solution to be added to the Alpha Advanced Services portfolio, which includes Alpha Server Monitoring, Alpha Server Security and Alpha Server Administration.
With the new solution, customers can leave the management of data backup and restores to The Planet's team of dedicated hosting professionals. Daily backups are continuously monitored, with issues or failures automatically corrected. Customers are also alerted when they near the limits of their existing storage space. Alpha Managed Backup stores customer data on a high-performance, fault-tolerant storage platform, backed by The Planet's world-class infrastructure and SAS 70 Type II data centers.
Alpha Managed Backup is priced at $40 for 20GB of storage space. Additional backup space is priced at $1 per GB, available in 20GB increments. The solution includes five data restores per month, with a one-time fee for additional restores.
Self-managed solutions in the Planet Alpha storage and data protection portfolio include: Data Protection Servers with continuous data protection and bare-metal recovery; R1Soft CDPServer software, which can be layered on to any server; EVault Backup that leverages EVault software for an easy-to-use backup solution; and Network Backup, which provides backup and archiving space available directly to customer applications and tools.
Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide:
High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business
Posted by editor on Thursday, October 23 @ 11:31:54 EDT (527 reads)
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News: Meta Search Website, Launches at Genealogy Today
New Providence, New Jersey - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 23, 2008 - A new meta search website, has launched at Genealogy Today, designed to help researchers locate genealogical data, either digitized or in-print, both online and offline.
Illya D'Addezio, owner of Genealogy Today remarked, ''I've always tried to stay informed about new resources; but with so many outlets, there hasn't been a single place to search across different catalogs. Through Live Roots I'm partnering with major genealogy companies and many medium and smaller publishers to combine their respective catalogs into one repository.''
Live Roots was developed to bridge the gaps between independent websites, large commercial repositories and printed materials yet to be digitized and published on the World Wide Web.
Live Roots extends beyond the typical bounds of a traditional search engine or link directory by facilitating access to offline records and publications through partnerships with amateur and professional researchers who either own copies or are geographically close to the libraries and archives that do. In a few quick steps, visitors will be able to hire a researcher to obtain digital copies (scanned or hi-res photo) of pages referencing a specific name (or surname).
Genealogy Today has been publishing unique information and offering innovative services since 1999. This site offers a selection of both free and fee-based databases (clearly marked with a dollar sign). The name indexes of all fee-based databases can be searched without a subscription.
Posted by editor on Thursday, October 23 @ 11:22:44 EDT (805 reads)
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News: Web Hosting Provider, Re-invent.com, Celebrates 10th Year, Debuts Windows
Douglas, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 22, 2008 - Web hosting provider, Re-invent Technologies LLC, has launched its Windows 2008 Hosting solution, while celebrating its 10th year in business.
Windows Server 2008 is the most advanced Windows Server operating system yet, designed to power the next-generation of applications and Web services. With Windows Server 2008 customers can develop, deliver, and manage rich user experiences and applications.
Windows Server 2008 contains many new improvements and enhancements such as:
IIS 7.0, FTP over SSL, PHP5, Control Panel Pipeline mode selector and other improvements to reliability and manageability.
Last year, the company premiered the launch of its .NET 3.0 Framework web hosting offering, in an ASP.NET shared hosting environment, including the .NET 2.0 and 1.1 Frameworks. The company has also announced that the .NET 3.0 framework is free on all web hosting plans which also include 9 additional months free on annual plans and a free SQL 2005 database.
The Microsoft .NET 3.0 Framework is the new managed code programming model for Windows. It combines the power of the .NET Framework 2.0 with four new technologies: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), and Windows CardSpace (WCS). Using the .NET 3.0 Framework allows Re-invent customers to build applications that have visually compelling user experiences.
Re-invent offers an advanced Windows 2008 and 2003 shared hosting infrastructure with features including SQL 2008 / SQL 2005 hosting, ASP.NET 3.5, 2.0, 1.1 Hosting, ASP.NET AJAX, LINQ, Silverlight compatibility, DotNetNuke hosting, Community Server hosting, ASP.NET Starter Kits and much more. Re-invent since 1998 has been 100% committed to reliable and responsible hosting at competitive pricing while continually offering new technologies, services and innovations to our customers.
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