My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

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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MSN Music Expiration- Belay that order!

June 23, 2008
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I complained several months ago about expiration of DRM under MSN music, as a result I refuse DRM music at every turn. ...

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The worst film ever...

June 15, 2008
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I do not normally comment on particular artists or films, however, this weekend I had the misfortune of seeing 'The ...

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UrlEncoding the hard way

June 08, 2008
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I like poking fun at code only because I hope to help highlight simple errors and make our programming world a better ...

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