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BlackBerry PlayBook Paperweight

Yeah, the title kinda sums up my experience trying out a BlackBerry PlayBook.  Maybe it is a bit unfair an assessment, but reality can be a harsh judge. FOSE 2010 I didn’t have time to attend the whole expo, but I made time to attend ONE of the free classes – I wanted to see […]

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Goodbye oBout, Hello DevExpress

Back in 2010, I was searching for ASP.NET controls for our team.  One member of our group had used oBout and said they were inexpensive and effective.  He was right… for an enterprise license, they are extremely inexpensive.  And, as long you didn’t try to do too much with them, they could be quite effective.

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Google and Bing Search Redirects… try ComboFix

SYMPTOMS You do a search via Google or Bing, you click a result…next thing you know, you are looking at some weird advertisement and the URL says “Fast-Find” or one of several other URLs including just freaky IP addresses.  If you go back and click your search link again, it takes you to the expected

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GoDaddy vs PETA

You know… I used to work for GoDaddy.  So, when a friend of mine sent this link, I had to watch (be warned: dead elephant is shown). Don’t worry, I tie this loosely into Easter at the end… I think…? Now, I am not exact a PETA zealot…but when their spokesperson was like,”Why not build

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Can Radiation from Japan Hurt Me?

THE SUPER SHORT VERSION True, there is no SAFE level of radiation, but if I contract brain cancer, I am going to be looking angrily at my cell phone…or I might remember that day I visited the Star-ship Enterprise and mooned the dilithium crystals.  That probably wasn’t my smartest maneuver. INTRO OK, for serious, I

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Stay Vigilent…When they can’t fool you, they go for your kids!

I love it.  My son has called me with the 3rd game he wants to sign up for on the computer. “This time I checked,” he said, “It says right on their site there are no viruses, no malware, and no spyware!” “Buddy,” I replied, “If I was going to write software that installed a

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.NET Configuration File Madness

THE SETUP Pretend you want to open an app.config or web.config file.  OK, normally, that is easy.  But, let’s say you mange a bunch of config files, and you want to write a widget that can open any of them and edit them programmatically. That means opening a config file NOT part of your EXE

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