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Asp.net AJAX Extensions Now Live

By on February 15, 2007 in ajax, asp.net, irishblogs, News, Tips

Earlier this week Rob Burke from Microsoft got in touch with us about Asp.net AJAX extensions. It transpires that none of the Irish hosting companies were offering support for them (at least not officially). Although we hadn’t been supporting it officially it transpires that we had been running them on several of our Windows servers [...]

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PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1.21

By on February 7, 2007 in Hosting, irishblogs, News, Programming

We’re pleased to announce that php5 is now available on our shared linux plans The nitty gritty details: PHP 5.2.0 MySQL 4.1.21 Any new servers will be installed with php5. Due to compatibility / sanity issues we will NOT be upgrading existing servers to php5 at this time. Combined with our domain name sale there’s [...]

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Ruby On Rails – The Podcast

By on September 5, 2006 in Hosting, irishblogs, News, Podcasting, Programming

If you want to hear a bit more about our new Ruby On Rails offering then you may be interested in our first podcast interview with Mario from PR Web. It’s available in mp3, iTunes and Ogg.

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Ruby On Rails Now Available!

By on August 30, 2006 in Hosting, irishblogs, News, Programming

Here at Blacknight we like to keep our “finger on the pulse” of the web development world. We are also proud to innovate, which is why we are often the first company to introduce new technologies to the Irish market: – Spam filtering – PHP 5 – UML hosting to name but a few This [...]

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Get your hands dirty – SpreadShirt API Available

By on July 31, 2006 in irishblogs, News, Programming, Tips

Have you already started selling cool tshirts via your website? If you haven’t, then get to it! Our partners Spreadshirt have produced a number of tools to cater to the more advanced users. You can download tools and code over on the new SpreadShirt Developer zone. We’ll be announcing a special offer from our partner [...]

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Calling all Ruby On Rails Developers!

By on July 2, 2006 in Hosting, Programming

A few days ago we offered free Ruby On Rails hosting to a number of people to help us test it all out. While we thought that we’d get some interest, we never expected for it to receive the level of interest that it did. So we’d now like to know what you have managed [...]

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Want to play with Ruby on Rails?

By on June 23, 2006 in Hosting, News, Programming

Here at Blacknight we are passionate about the internet and technology and we love being able to share that passion with you, our clients and partners. Over the last year there has been a lot of “buzz” surrounding a new scripting language – Ruby On Rails. RoR describes itself as being aimed at providing “programmer [...]

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Php5 and ColdFusion 7 (MX) Now Available

By on June 16, 2006 in Hosting, News, Programming

As part of our ongoing upgrades and improvements we are delighted to announce support for two new technologies: Php 5 (version 5.1.4) on Windows Server 2003 and ColdFusion 7 on Windows Server 2003 also. Both of these new options are available via the Helm hosting control panel for our Windows 2003 server clients. With php, [...]

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Linux Hosting vs Windows – what’s the difference?

By on March 14, 2006 in Hosting, Programming

What’s the difference between windows hosting and linux hosting? Why should you choose linux instead of windows?

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