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Last November I made the decision to join Tellago full-time. I was recruited by my friend Don Demsak for about 4-5 months before joining. It meant doing a lot of travel and essentially relocating to a South Florida the majority of time, a place I had
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Odds are if you are viewing this Blog with IE 6 you are in a large, slow moving corporation. I really doubt normal folks reading this Blog would still have IE 6 installed on their home or small business computers. If so, Bad Geek, Bad Geek, now go think
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Happy New Decade!!! Its hard to believe I have reached my 4th decade here on Earth, but I have. The last decade was full of challenges, good times and many bad. New Years morning I received confirmation I have received the ASP.NET MVP award for the third
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Brad Abrams recently posted tips he has for someone interviewing for a Program Manager position at Microsoft . In his post he references different questions and situations he likes to put candidates through. One section titled Design and Bahh Questions
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I tell a story about my very first assigned development task to my development friends because it really sets the development practice tone of reality to me. The first day I was on my first job after graduate school I was given a simple task of creating
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Last month I pondered the question of Where Does ASP.NET Belong? This month I want to express my opinion on where Silverlight belongs as well as WPF. I have been pondering this a lot over the past year, almost waiting for something to just hit me with
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First, wow, I never ever dreamed pushing that publish button on something I wrote in about 20 minutes would get so much play! Thanks for all who shared their opinions, I enjoyed them all. Please feel free to share more, I think this is such a good discussion
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I read Dilbert every day, it adds levity to my technical life. Besides I cannot watch Office Space every day can I? Today's Dilbert was funny, but makes a very important point about why software development is so much different than just about any other
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In the past 24 hours both Mashable and TechCrunch have reported that a lawsuit has been filed against both ICANN and Network Solutions for Front-Running. I reported the unethical practice back in January, where any available domain a whois lookup was
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A long while back I wrote an article on Domain Registration . I have been registering domains for about a decade at this point. I manage domain registration for many of my clients and I use OPENSRS as my registrar. I have never really like Network Solutions
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A recent InfoWorld article, by Bill Snyder, points out that Java is quickly becoming outdated , so much so that it calls Java the new Cobol. It goes on to point out several times that .NET is quickly replacing Java as the platform of choice. I am not
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In a crazy move the state of Maryland has decided to slap an additional sales tax on custom software development and other technical service work . Since I am not a resident of the overpriced and already over taxed state of Maryland I cannot say with
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I put together a presentation on Identity solutions for the Richmond for the Code Camp last Saturday. The main reason I wanted to give this presentation so I could learn more about the two authentication methods that are being developed to make our online
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First, I said this would happen in my 2006 Year in Review , but it looks like Microsoft will be purchasing Yahoo for between $50-60 billion dollars. This is a good move for both involved. I have really been noticing Yahoo being more and more open to .NET
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I thought about adding this one to my links of the week, but this is a little more important than just a breif mention. If you are not familiar with Archive.org , it is a web site that retains and makes public snapshots of every website at various points
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