Jordan RiegerProgramming is hard (but not in the way you think) Programming is hard, and a lot of people just don’t get it. The nature of our work is that we rarely do the same thing in the same way twice; the whole point is to automate a process so that other non-programmers can repeat it…
Jordan RiegerA CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a popular service used by websites to streamline and manage the speed and performance of its assets to visitors. Read on to learn more about the benefits of a CDN, disadvantages if any and to help determine whether your website need a CDN. The Dilemma As your web site…
Jordan RiegerWebnames’ TBR page gets a refresh to be more user-friendly We’re happy to announce our new page for browsing TBR domains! But what are TBR domains? Read on for a little context. (If you’re already familiar with TBR, skip ahead to read about our improved UI.) The life of a domain We might think of…
Jordan RiegerThe rude awakening You’ve finally settled on the perfect domain name for your blog or small business. You’ve registered it with a trusted Canadian registrar like Webnames.ca. You’ve barely begun to setup email and web hosting, yet the very next day, you wake up to an inbox full of spam – emails hawking web design,…
Jordan RiegerThe title of this blog references a common pattern in learning, from a programming perspective. For example, when you learned basic geometry, you were probably taught some variation of this statement: Every square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square. At first it might seem to be a deliberate brain teaser, the…
Jordan RiegerUpdate to a browser that supports TLS 1.1 or 1.2 by June 2016, or start seeing broken websites. On June 1st, 2016, you might have trouble seeing your favourite websites (and Webnames.ca) if you are using one of the older web browser versions listed below: Microsoft Internet Explorer version 10 or lower Android Browser OS version…
Jordan RiegerA Case Study/Guide Background and Goal Our corporate website was built primarily using VB.NET ASP.NET Web Forms. We have done a good job of keeping up with the features of the latest .NET framework releases, and we are happy with the power and readability of VB.NET (it’s extremely similar to C# in most respects). However,…
Jordan RiegerSituation Recently I was trying to optimize a SQL query in our legacy code. The code, schema, and indexes had not changed in several years, but suddenly we were seeing severe timeout errors in our logs, and users were getting frustrated. Initial diagnostic steps The problem could not be reproduced in our SQL Server 2012…
