By ifranco on 5/13/2008

Congratulations goes out to my brother Stan Jackson for heading up this project and creating a beautiful home. Stan's vision was to build a new home yet make it look like it had been there for years. Take a look at this great write-up on the home. This home was also featured in the Fairmount Home Tour this year.

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By drfranco on Friday, April 25, 2008

Before Godaddy was in business, Register.com was a good option when choosing where to register a domain name. Not Anymore!

Their old fashioned methods (high pressure phone sales) are completely not customer friendly. My gripe is with the process of transferring a domain away from them and to another registrar. They put as many obstacles in your way as possible.

One of my domains lumberpost.com was about to expire and I wanted to move it to GoDaddy.com. Pretty simple eh. I had private registration enabled with register.com so I ... Read More »

By ifranco on 9/18/2007

SEARCHing -- eBay

People often ask me what the most popular items are on eBay. So, I did a little surfing today... These are the most popular items searched in the listed categories. There are several categories so I will post more when I have more time. Of course they link back to idaexpress.com!

Most Popular Searches by section:

Baby
clothes
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By drfranco on Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Franco Connection is Live on DotNetNuke!

The dotnetnuke platform already has allowed me to do so much more. The original francoconnection.com website was written with classic asp. It did what I needed it to, but development was slow and often nonexistent. Every time I wanted to add a new feature i would have to jump in and edit raw code.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy writing code, but the as the site grew I had to devote more time to writing code. In addition, trying to remember what a piece ... Read More »

By drfranco on Monday, July 30, 2007

I needed a quick and easy method for FTP-ing files to a remote location using DOS batch on W2k3 Read More »