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1and1.com – Web Hosting Review

Purchasing web hosting service is extremely easy; however, purchasing great web service is extremely difficult. Some of the web hosts pretty much…

June 25, 2010
C#.NET

Skype API Basics – Part 1

What is the Skype API? The Skype API is an easy way to create plugins that can dramatically change the way Skype…

June 3, 2010
.NET Framework

Determine if Skype is Installed

The easiest method of checking whether Skype is installed is actually to check for a Registry Key. We, of course, can’t check…

May 25, 2010
Programming

Inline vs External JavaScript

In general, we never should have embed JavaScript inside the same file as the HTML markup and should instead place the JavaScript…

April 12, 2010
JavaScript

JavaScript And Site Performance

JavaScript and the respective frameworks have really began to gain traction over the last couple of years. I would argue that most of the JavaScript frameworks are excellent, and truly are great for the user experience and for the programmer experience.

April 11, 2010
Programming

The Rise and Fall of Waterfall

Sadly, I still think there are a lot of companies that still just think,code, guess, code, guess some more and maybe eventually…

March 31, 2010
Programming

Browser Redirection – Yahoo Answers

I am having problems getting mozilla firefox to display my website correctly. It works fine on Internet Explorer. So I was thinking…

October 9, 2009
Experience

Open Source Week 2009

I am so excited to say that I finally booked everything I need to attend the Toronto Open Source Week. In a…

October 1, 2009
.NET Framework

Books I’ve Read

Sometimes, when I have applied for full time employment in the past I have seen job ads or received responses from companies…

September 8, 2009
.NET Framework

Sending Emails from C#.NET

Emails are incredibly easy to send from .NET especially your typical <a href="http://www.mail-list.com/list_owner/plain_text_email.html" target="_blank">plaintext</a> email. We will be making use of the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.aspx">System.Net.Mail namespace</a> along with an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol">smtp server </a>you should already have setup or you could use a free one like Gmail.

August 5, 2009
C#.NET

Read a Whole Textfile Into a String

At work, I’ve been working on an auto html emailer.   I’ve been receiving files from our Latin American office that are completely…

July 30, 2009
asp.net

Mouse Overs For ASP.NET

Have you ever wanted to have the ability for the colour of a row to change when your user moves the mouse…

June 24, 2009
Programming

Testing

All I can say about this is awesome!

May 24, 2009
Programming

Creating a Simple RSS Feed

RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and is an XML specification published by the W3C. RSS became a standardized specification…

May 5, 2009
Excel Logos
Excel

Programming Excel Using Visual Basic 6

Microsoft provides the ability to programmatically created spreadsheets using Excel. The process isn’t overly complex, but the twist is that the intelisense…

May 4, 2009