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Free Silverlight Training

Published 14 August 7 8:53 PM | William

My friend Brian Madsen who owns CSharpZealot has teamed up with InnerWorkings to extend a really slick offer for Free Silverlight Training for CSharpZealot members . In addition, Shawn Wildermuth has been way ahead of the crowd when it comes to Silverlight...

Filed under: Life in General, .NET Basics, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, WPF, .NET 3.0 Framework, Silverlight, WPF/E

Coding Arguments - aka How to Start Religious Wars

Published 23 July 7 5:33 AM | William

I am lucky enough to work for a company that really encourages us to get together and learn/hang out etc. One way this happens is by Tech Nights. Basically, we have in office meetings which are recorded via Live Meeting, where someone picks a topic and...

Filed under: Data Access, Life in General, Coding Techniques

Stealing code ;-(

Published 3 July 6 11:45 PM | William

I don't know why I even let it bother me but a lot of times is still does. Usually starts out with me working on something, an article, a book, a newsgroup question. I start searching around and use words that I think describe what I'm looking for. Low...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Coding Techniques

'Undocumentation'

Published 24 November 5 8:47 AM | William

My Homie Jason Burton from TiBA just shot me this jewel on 'real' documentation . Everyone needs to read that memo.

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Coding Techniques

Web Services + Computer * x = Justice for spammers

Published 13 October 5 11:43 PM | William

I was hesitant to post this, but I've frigging had it. A few months back I started using a Skin that didn't have the CAPTCHA b/c I got so many complaints about it. All in all, things have been pretty good w/ respect to blog spam. However in the past few...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Coding Techniques

Improving a CAPTCHA - An idea

Published 31 January 5 12:20 AM | William

Ok, so you have probably already heard about all of the controversy my homey KC caused with his Captcha beater. He posted his suggestions on how to make Captcha stronge, which are provided below: render the characters with different colors make some characters...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

More Casey Worship

Published 30 January 5 4:7 PM | William

One of the best things about being the leader of the Casey Chesnut Sycophant Cult is that he makes it increasingly easy to recruit members. Like much of his stuff - the coolness of it doesn't just come from the tech stuff it takes to write it - it comes...

Filed under: Life in General, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Newsgroup Cowboys

Published 30 December 4 6:32 PM | William

Originally, I was going to title this Newsgroup a-holes. But I decided to sound a little more European and opt for Cowboy instead. What is a Newsgroup Cowboy you ask? Well, it's someone who runs their mouth first, and then thinks about it later. Here...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques