Resources

These are some links to useful resources for our staff and clients. They include IT Solutions User Support, Useful Weather Links,  Helpful Tech Support Utilities, Developer Training and Reference,  and Professional Organizations.  We intend to add more links and resources for the end-user.  So, if you have a problem, there is a topic you are interested in or need more information about, please let us know.  We will try to give you an answer or point you in the right direction.

IT Solutions User Support

• Mail Setup 
  Information for  IT Solutions Web Hosting customers on how to setup E-mail client software.
• Network Example Diagram 
  Diagram showing a simple Local Area Network (LAN), Internet Service Providers (ISP), Web Hosting Provider, and Off-site users.  It is meant to be an aid in explaining the way this connectivity happens.

Useful Weather Links

• National Weather Service (NWS) Doppler Radar for Puerto Rico
  http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=jua&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=no
  Find out if rain is coming! This is a real-time Doppler radar image showing precipitation.  Click on the Short Range Base Reflectivity "Loop" link for an animation of the activity for the last hour.
• Intellicast Active Tropical Cyclones http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?loc=usa&seg=StormCenter&prodgrp=Tropical&product=ActiveTropical&prodnav=none&pid=none  Find out information about active storms and cyclones.

Helpful Tech Support Utilities

• Ping Plotter CNET Download
  A fast, small, shareware visual Traceroute utility (30 day trial).  It uses multiple threads to trace all hops at once for substantial performance improvements over standard Traceroute queries.  It also creates visual graphs of perfomance to pinpoint problems and see ranges of responses and trends. Ping Plotter is especially good for ISP troubleshooting, and server performance testing.

Developer Training and Reference

• Microsoft - Events and Training in Puerto Rico www.microsoft.com/puertorico/eventos or www.mseventos.com/listaEventos.asp?clavePais=21
  Find out about upcoming events for Users, IT Professionals, and Developers.
• Microsoft Developer Network msdn.microsoft.com
• MSDN Online Library - Web Development Reference msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/anch_webdev.asp
  Resources for Web development including Cascading Style Sheets, HTML and DHTML, scripting, Web authoring tools, and content management.
• Some of the basics from MSDN Online Library
  • .NET Development
    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950381.aspx
  • ASP .Net
    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa286485.aspx
  • Introducing Visual studio .Net 
    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fx6bk1f4(vs.71).aspx
• Microsoft ASP.Net Site www.asp.net
  Resources for ASP.Net developers. Includes tutorials, Sample Applications (Starter Kits), Framework Downloads, Forums, Book recommendations and much more.
• GotDotNet: The Microsoft .Net Framework Community www.gotdotnet.com
  This site provides content related to the complete .Net Framework.  Includes tutorials, reference material, tools, code examples, sections on different .Net languages and more.

Professional Organizations

• Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals www.iccp.org
  

  Acknowledged throughout the information and technology sectors as the most authoritative source of IT professional certification.  The CCP examination demands a high degree of professional competence from those who pass; consequently, the designation is powerful evidence of the high level of attainment of a true Certified Computing Professional.

• Brainbench.com www.brainbench.com
  Provides Web-based skills testing and certification service. Includes tests for Visual Basic and other progeamming languages, SQL, Oracle, Frontpage, ASP, HTML, Windows, Networking and more IT topics. Tests on other topics not related to IT are also provided:  Finance, Insurance, and many others.