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Today I was watching the Twitter stream out the corner of my left eye when I caught Paul Irish chatting with Stefan Hayden about why browsers do not include jQuery natively . As the thread progressed the tweet that caught my attention got me thinking:
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Saturday I posted the first part of 2 about things I learned from TechEd's Speaker Idol competition . Today I want to finish up with tips to help you with your presentations. Speaker Idol is a way to find great speakers for TechEd. If you think about
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This year I was lucky enough to hang out at Tech Ed in Orlando this week . I have not made Tech Ed since it was in Orlando 4 years ago, so it was great to get back to it again. One thing I really enjoy is participating in Speaker Idol, a talent contest
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Lately the interest in cloud storage has captivated me. Google offering G Drive , Microsoft pushing SkyDrive more, DropBox offering more space when you get a friend to sign up ( hurry you can still sign up can get an extra 500MB at DropBox ), etc. Like
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This week we, my Tellago co-workers, had a background discussion about Instagram experiences scaling to 35 million users . Jesus sent around a PDF from a presentation Mike Krieger, one of the Instagram founders, gave recently. The 'first culprit'
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Taking screen shots of an application is essential to the development and marketing process. You really need something to reference to any marketing or advertising that people can see. After all how will I have a good idea if your application will actually
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Today I am very excited to announce Moesion , Tellago Studios latest product. Not only did I work on this product with a great team loaded with fellow Microsoft MVPs, I have wanted this product since I placed my very first server online well over a decade
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When you are a web developer you are ultimately dependent on server administration. This means at some point you will need to access your web server to update configurations, manage web sites & databases. If you are like me and got into the hosting
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Today is the day, Tellago Studios officially launches with our first software offering, SO-Aware.SO-Aware is a RESTful WCF Registry solution. So what does that mean? In short SO-Aware is a web based WCF management tool that also does monitoring and automated
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One of the most common questions I see on ASP.NET forums relates to sending E-Mail. I have addressed many of those issues already, so I wont get into how to send E-Mail from an ASP.NET web site. This week I have been working on testing applications and
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Today I was working on a Web Form and noticed a property in the TextBox control called AutoCompleteType . I had never noticed it before and my interest was piqued. My first thought was it must be an injected property from an AutoComplete extender on the
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One of my favorite web development books is Steve Souders High Performance Web Sites from O’Reilly. In fact I created a session I give from time to time at Code Camps and never have enough time! Yesterday’s DotNetRocks episode is an hour long discussion
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So I have been having a problem designing a rather odd LINQ to EF statement the past week and I decided to contact my friend on the Entity Framework team, Erick Thompson. he said oh yah, I created something like what you are looking for in the 101 sample
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In college I majored in polymer chemistry and I thought I would use some of that chemistry today to demonstrate how to use Dictionary(of TKey, TValue) (VB.NET), Dictionary<TKey, TValue> (C#) class. The generic Dictionary(of TKey, TValue) class is
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Microsoft announced a new distributed caching application, code name ‘Velocity’, at TechEd. Since then I have been sort of toying with it and I have my issues and dealing with the learning curve. One thing I kept noticing and had a hard time finding was
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