Day Two here in my New Horizon's OnLine Live class "Developing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010"

This course is focusing on moving away from Web forms in Visual Studio to the MVC model.  MVC's are quite interesting.  MVC's are faster than web forms (one reason is due to the missing viewstate data) and are much easier to test.  While there is more coding involved using the MVC model, the long-term benefits greatly outweigh the additional work.  I am lucky enough to have Peter Thorsteinson teaching this class.  He is very knowledgable on the topic and a great teacher.  Visit his Youtube channel "youtube.com/PeterTeach".  If your looking to keep up with Microsoft technologies his videos are the place to go.

I finished the topic on SNMP last week.  In the coming blogs I am going to discuss Disaster Recovery.  Today i'll talk the theories and reasoning behind why it is so important. 

One of the main misconceptions on this topic is the consideration of what a 'diaster' is.  The non-tech types in your company will say that it is to main business continuity in the event of disaster.  The layman will consider the disaster as a fire, or problem in the data center.  But the reality that a disaster must be considered from it's worst to least when preparing for it.  The problem or disaster that affects your business may not even be in your building.  What if there is a chemical spill in the building across the street?  The problem will affect all those within a four block around that building.  Your company will have to evacuate your building.  What if a fire results that causes the city municipalities to shut down power within the four blocks.  If this problem lasts longer than a day, your business needs to continue.  What will you do in this scenario?  In the coming days we'll explore the different facets of the problem and things you can do to mitigate the problem.