For those that are interested in learning more about Ruby on Rails this will be an excellent conference to attend.

On April 13th – 14th, Canada on Rails will host 15 speakers from around the world in Vancouver to speak on everything to do with the hugely successful Ruby on Rails framework.

YVR06 is the first ever Ruby on Rails conference in the world, showcasing keynote speakers as – David Hanssson, creator of Ruby on Rails; Thomas Fuchs, creator of script.aculo.us; Dave Astels, author of Jolt Award winning “Test-driven Development: A Practical Guide”; David Black, Ph.D., future author of “Ruby for Rails: Ruby techniques for Rails developers”; Joe O’Brien, an agile developer with ThoughtWorks; James Adams, Ph.D., creator of the highly successful Engines framework for Ruby on Rails.

Registration can be done at the Canada on Rails site or at the front desk. Prices starting at $250 an up.

I attended a great presentation today from Surrey’s own Steve Chandler. Steve is the author of the successful book “9 Lies That Are Holding Your Business Back“. Steve shared with us some of his great ways to help a small business grow and how to avoid falling into the lies that businesses believe.

I recommend this as excellent reading for anyone looking to grow their business to new heights.

We have just completed installing Oracle 10G XE on a development server and will being the process of testing it over the next few days. Once we have everything at 100% we will be adding this as another service that we can provide.

Developers that want to keep up with new technology can use the free Oracle online tutorial. 

If you have any questions about this contact our sales staff  at sales@bluefur.com.

We have a few new servers for both shared Windows and Reseller Windows hosting that use the Plesk control panel. We will be moving forward with Windows servers on Plesk. These servers also have the ability to use ASP.NET 2.0.

Some of the key new features of ASP.NET are:

• Master Pages, Themes, & Skins
• Master Page Inheritance
• Logical Site Model
• Enhanced Web Parts Support
• SQL Output Caching
• Enhanced Intellisense
• Design-time Expression Evaluation
• Binary Web Application Distribution
• New Admin Tools

If you are currently on a server that is not using Plesk and wish to make use of ASP.NET 2.0 then please contact us through our help desk.

This can now be purchased on our main site here.

If you have any questions about this contact our sales staff  at sales@bluefur.com.

We have just finished setting up a server with MySQL 5.x on it. This server will not be used for shared hosting but as an add on or a service you can purchase on it’s own. These accounts will be provided space on the MySQL server with PHPMyAdmin access. You will be able to setup remote access to your current hosting.

To see what is new in MySQL 5 click here.

We will be looking at moving our shared servers to MySQL 5 when it is supported on cPanel. Currently cPanel does not support this version of MySQL so this is our solution for those that require MySQL now.

This can now be purchased on our main site here.

If you have any questions about this contact our sales staff  at sales@bluefur.com.

We are a few days away from launching a new service called failover hosting.

Our failover hosting will provide you with a higher up time as it will provide you with a minimum of 2 accounts in 2 separate data centers. The service includes site monitoring to ensure your site is up, if your site is detected as being down your DNS will be updated automatically to update to use the second account (and others if you have more then 2). This service also includes rsync for your files and replication for your databases. Our failover hosting can scale up to 5 accounts on 5 separate servers in different data centers.

This can now be purchased on our main site here.

If you have any questions about this contact our sales staff  at sales@bluefur.com.