November 2007 Archives

This is probably old news but I so rarely use Internet Explorer that I completely missed it. I've written before about the Firefox Web Developer Extension and the Web Accessibility Toolbar for IE. It turns out that Microsoft apparently released it's own Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar.

Microsoft's toolbar is a little bit like Firebug although definitely not as good. I rarely run IE if I can help it... but every once in a while I'm forced to use it for some badly coded IE-only web application.  For times like that it's handy to have a development tool like this. It may also come in handy when you're trying to figure out why your standards compliant pages are breaking in IE. It's not perfect but it's a worthy addition to your dev toolbox.

Download the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

In the last month or so I’ve dealt with a PC with a fried motherboard, a SNAFU that prompted me to switch hosting companies and rebuild the blog, and a corporate IT department which permanently erased an entire SourceSafe database. So I thought I’d write a quick post about the importance of backups.

If you work in any kind of corporate environment you no doubt store your files on some sort of network drive or server which gets backed up onto tape every night. But what about your home computer? Or what if you run a home-based business?

Having backups of your files, and your client’s files, is paramount when running any kind of web business and it’s also important for your personal photos, documents, MP3s, etc, etc. Should anything go wrong, you’ll want to get things back up and running as soon as possible.

CDs and DVDs are a huge hassle. External hard drives are great as long as your office doesn’t burn down. An automatic, inexpensive solution that stores your files online for easy retrieval is the ideal solution. That’s where Mozy comes in.

Mozy is a service that takes your important data and backs it up for you automatically to an online location. It runs in the background and will continually ensure that your most recent data is stored securely online in the event of a problem. Restoring files from these online backups is a snap via an easy to use web interface.

Mozy provides both consumer and business solutions for just a couple dollars a month; a small price to pay for the piece of mind of knowing your data is safe.

Check out Mozy for your personal files and Mozy Pro for your business.