My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Microsoft Points - Walled Garden In Action

July 29, 2008
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I remember posting what was a rather critical attack of the Microsoft Points system. Just days later I was posting a ...

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Spam in a can!

July 23, 2008
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The recent stir in high profile security issues has got me real paranoid about my computer habits. Trying to secure ...

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Social Networks - Who do you trust?

July 21, 2008
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I am a member of only one social network, and that is LinkedIn. Contrary to popular opinion I think it is a great way ...

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Defensive Security Coding for ASP.NET

July 14, 2008
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I have been doing a fair share of security related audits and programming over the last few years, and the following is ...

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XAML - Development and Design together at last...

July 08, 2008
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I have been working with my wife (a graphic designer) on a couple of web related projects at home, and I have realized ...

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Google Maps Street level Photos

June 30, 2008
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I was checking out Google Maps recently and noticed a camera icon next to the turn by turn instruction. When I clicked ...

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My Wordle

June 26, 2008
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Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. This is a wordle of my recent posts.   It is ...

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Updation is not a word!

June 24, 2008
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I was reading some source code recently and saw the word 'updation' used in a sentence (as in 'Failure in Updation of ...

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ICollections(T) - Extension Methods

June 24, 2008
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I have written a couple of app's that use LINQ, however, I realized that in order to talk about LINQ I would really ...

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