Data centers are huge, power-hungry and inefficient. They consume electricity and IT budgets at staggering rates. HP wants to change that. The company's enterprise server division is developing efficient, compact machinery that's set to shatter our views of the traditional data center.  Read Full Post

Alchemy Solutions sent a few of its developers to attend the unveiling of Windows 8 at the 2011 Microsoft BUILD conference in Anaheim California. Read Full Post

One of the key design goals in NeoKicks is to leave customers with a true ASP.NET application. One of the benefits of this is that you can leverage tools that are available on Windows for ASP.NET applications to help debug problems that you may be experiencing. The challenge, however, is knowing what those tools are and how to use them, so this will be one of a few different blog posts on the subject of debugging and diagnostics that may help you. We focus a lot on NeoKicks applications, but these are just as applicable with other ASP.NET Web applications as well. Read Full Post

Over the years, we’ve developed and sold a number of different products, many of which had different licensing mechanisms. In most cases, in order to activate a license for our software, you had to download and install the software, then email us a license request. Only after receiving a response from us could you actually begin to use the software. What a pain! Read Full Post