One of the more useful and cost effective tools for corporations and developers that need to organize large amounts of structureless information is the Wiki. Wikipedia, the largest Wiki in existance, has a good definition of of what a Wiki is here, but the important features of a Wiki are:

1. Users can edit content quickly and easily in their browser without needed any additional tools. This makes a Wiki a low friction tool that actually gets used.

I operate under an assumption: the assumption that when I pay for a service, I will get a "best effort" attempt at delivery of that service, within the constraints of the service level I purchase. This applies no less to the services I pay for that are deployed on the Internet. I understand that if I pay more for a service, I get better quality service... the price difference should reflect the enhanced performance.

In my last post I was very disturbed by the attitude that hitting limits (or wanting to know about the box you are in) means you are doing something "wrong". Yet, the main examples used actually do represent reasonable limits... 50 nested windows, 25 level menus and similar are most likely pathological code. In fact, such limits can help avoid denial of service attacks that consume system resources via recursive calls. Nevertheless, even limits like these leave me uneasy. Unexpected uses do not necessarily mean abuses of a system.

Anatoly Lubarsky deserves the kudos for this information about re-registering IIS, found originally here: http://blogs.x2line.com/al/archive/2007/07/15/3203.aspx.

I have to admit that I am guilty of using the brute force method of "aspnet_regiis -i". However, the "correct" method (which after a quick trip to the docs, does seem more reasonable and less destructive) is:

aspnet_regiis -ir -enable

and then

aspnet_regiis -s path

Even though this site is largely dormant due to the time pressures of day to day work, I thought I would share this link:

http://www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/

This is an excellent overview of the legal issues facing bloggers and others who deal with user supplied content. As always, legal advice can only be provided by a lawyer, but this link gives good legal information that can be used as a starting point for understanding the issues facing anyone who provides content on the Internet.