I am a software developer but it is still very useful to understand SEO and it's ramifications when building a website. The 15 minute SEO List is a good SEO cheatsheet. Also the Google SEO Starter Guide is good ......

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Were I am contracting at right now has a new development domain. Because of IT security rules it is fairly isolated from the domain my computer normally logs into (for e-mail and such). I do use a VM to log directly into the domain but one of my co-workers found this command to run things on your box but in the other domain. Pretty cool. For example ......

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So this blog had a purpose at one point that does not know fit the bill so I am changing it.

Now it's purpose is to keep track of all the things I might need to know again but will certainly forget.

 

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In August of 2006 I was listening to the radio and stumbled across a guy named Dave Ramsey. The simplest way to distill Dave Ramsey down is: Get out of debt, stay out of debt, live beneath your means. Before long my wife and I were both on board with it and we were budgeting and cutting our expenses. This created a really big problem for me because ......

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This morning I got up in the bitter cold to walk our new puppy. I did not want to do it, but if he does not get his exercise in he turns into a total spaz by the end of the day (instead of just a partial spaz). When we were done walking I opened up my garage door to get back into the house using the keypad. Because it was so cold I was not patient enough ......

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If you read enough about security in general you will hear the often touted principle of do not rely on security by obscurity. It even has its own Wikipedia page. You see this advice thrown out a lot when somebody does something like embedding encryption keys in their code. The developers assumption is that the code will never be read by anyone and ......

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Recently, I was asked to look into a performance issue we are having with a particular windows service when it is being communicated with a MMC snap-in we have developed. Essentially the snap-in communicates with the service using WCF to get the data that populates a particular form. When the form was loaded it could take between 10-30 seconds depending ......

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My company recently purchased a software called dynaTrace to be used for performance diagnosis. It primarily started as a Java tool but they do support .Net as well. Since my company is entirely .Net based I will explain the product from that point of view. The application works by using MSIL injection to put essentially a header and footer into each ......

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Several blogs I follow have mentioned that SafeCode has released there Fundamental Practices for Secure Software Development guide. I had thought that this was released a while ago actually and the document is dated October 8th. Oh well, it is a good reference regardless. The mission of SafeCode.org is "SAFECode is dedicated to increasing trust in information ......

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