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Implementing Google's No Captcha reCaptcha In ASP.NET
Captchas and reCaptchas are great inventions. They help keep spam out and help to verify that humans are on the interwebs and not mischievo...
Starting Out With ASP.NET MVC Part 2
Published on: 8/6/2015 - 5 min read
Starting Out With ASP.NET MVC Part 2
Last time I left off with ASP.NET MVC, I covered how to create a new MVC project in Visual Studio and how to add new Controllers and Views....
Checking Out The Microsoft Edge Developer Tools
I just download my fresh copy of Windows 10, which if you haven't you can either wait for it to install automatically if you qualify for th...
Windows 10 May Be My New Favorite OS
Published on: 7/31/2015 - 4 min read
Windows 10 May Be My New Favorite OS
Windows 10 is finally here and after reading reviews on pretty much every single technology blog known to man, I was anxious to get mine. A...
Starting Out With ASP.NET MVC Part 1
Published on: 7/28/2015 - 5 min read
Starting Out With ASP.NET MVC Part 1
One of my weaknesses in programming is actively using MVC in my projects. Particularly ASP.NET MVC, since I am a .NET Developer. Most of th...
Revisiting My Bug Ridden Code And Found All This
Every couple of months I like to go back to an old project and show it some love and attention. And every few months I'm surprised at how o...
What Is A Senior Developer?
Published on: 7/21/2015 - 4 min read
What Is A Senior Developer?
After years of programming, I'm still not quite sure yet myself. Many times you'll see those keywords in job descriptions and then stop f...
Working With Generics In C#
Published on: 7/18/2015 - 5 min read
Working With Generics In C#
In this post I will talk about another nifty feature that C# has offered for a while now, Generics. You probably won't run into Generics on...
The Importance Of A Great Work Environment
Published on: 7/17/2015 - 4 min read
The Importance Of A Great Work Environment
I've worked in several different companies throughout the years, and at home for a part of that time, and I've been comfortable and I've be...
Working With Delegates In C# For Beginners
Published on: 7/16/2015 - 3 min read
Working With Delegates In C# For Beginners
I don't normally run into delegates in my day to day coding, but at some point you will run into them and you'll want to know what they are...
Trying Out: Google's Material Design Lite
Published on: 7/10/2015 - 4 min read
Trying Out: Google's Material Design Lite
Google just unveiled Material Design Lite out into the wild for all to use, and so I'm going to be trying it out on a few of my websites th...
I took a midterm exam during my coding interview
Everyone that knows me, knows that I enjoy a good interview. I even enjoy the bad ones sometimes because if anything, they at least make fo...
Preparing For My Interview In The Worst Way
Published on: 7/7/2015 - 4 min read
Preparing For My Interview In The Worst Way
I have an interview coming up really soon because I can't be self-employed and living by our own terms forever unfortunately. At least not ...
Working As A Full Stack Developer
Published on: 6/30/2015 - 5 min read
Working As A Full Stack Developer
I've been a 'full-stack' developer for the better part of 6 years now, and it's been an amazing time. In comparison to when I was just that...
How To Encrypt Passwords Using SHA-256 In C# And .NET
.NET makes it pretty simple to work with data encryption with the Cryptography namespace. So there should be no reason to have plain text......
Trying Out PHP Using WebMatrix
Published on: 6/29/2015 - 4 min read
Trying Out PHP Using WebMatrix
If you're programming on a Windows machine, then chances are you probably haven't dabbled much in PHP. So today let's take PHP for a spin u...
Why Comments Are Hard
Published on: 6/25/2015 - 4 min read
Why Comments Are Hard
Comments are in every corner of the interwebs. Sometimes they're wise, sometimes they incite good heated conversation and sometimes they li...
Trying Out WinJS Part 1
Published on: 6/23/2015 - 4 min read
Trying Out WinJS Part 1
Another week, another new technology to learn. This week I'll be using WinJS for the first time, also known as The Windows Library For Java...
Turning Down A Job Offer
Published on: 6/22/2015 - 4 min read
Turning Down A Job Offer
It's job hunting season for those fresh out of college, so here is, what I would hope is, helpful info for anyone that's too eager to start...
Become The Overseer In Fallout: Shelter
Published on: 6/15/2015 - 3 min read
Become The Overseer In Fallout: Shelter
If you were anxiously waiting for the E3 Bethesda press conference this year for Fallout 4 news, then you were not disappointed. Not only d...