This is something very obvious to most, but as I watch a lot of screen casts / tutorials I would always see people typing in their browser things like umbraco.local or devsite.local to get up their local development copy of Umbraco – And I always wondered how they did it as I always used the built in Visual Studio server to develop on, not to mention if I was using IIS locally I could only install one version of Umbraco as I was accessing it using localhost?? More...

Recently I had a major problem on my Win2003 server running IIS6, I am using ISAPI rewrite version 3 and use a text file that maps the URL's to the ID's.  For some weird reason, IIS was caching the text file even though when I downloaded the URL list it was definitely the new updated version - It would work fine if I restarted IIS, but that's a real pain in the arse to have to do that every time a new product / page was added or updated!  More...