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Email Security Tips - 5,436 views.
Posted by Dave at 12/12/2018 3:14:31 PM
I have an email address that is associated with this website. It has been publicly listed for more than 25 years. So my email is in ALL the email lists sold to spammers, scammers, and phishers. I get TONS of bogus email, hundreds and hundreds each and every day. Over the years, I have devised so...
A Secure Password Family Strategy - 4,057 views.
Posted by Dave at 11/27/2018 11:57:31 AM
So many passwords! I used to keep a file on my computer desktop that contained all my passwords. While this helped me remember multiple passwords, this is clearly not a wise practice for numerous reasons. One day I had my desktop displayed during an online meeting and one of my colleagues noticed...
Software Development Secrets: Easing Your Burden – Writing Code that Spits Out Code – Part 2 - 3,107 views.
Posted by Dave at 11/21/2017 6:05:12 PM
Sometimes software coding involves repetitive tasks, such as writing the C# Switch-Case code that works through a long list of properties. In one of my current projects, we have a database table that defines properties for various objects—our application reads this database table and uses this info...
Software Development Secrets: Easing Your Burden – Writing Code that Spits Out Code - Part 1 - 2,720 views.
Posted by Dave at 11/20/2017 9:17:50 PM
Sometimes software coding involves repetitive tasks, such as writing the SQL code that populates a database. In one of my current projects, we have a database table that defines properties for various objects—our application reads this database table and uses this information to 1) populate various...
And The Champion Spammer Is...Groupon! - 2,887 views.
Posted by Dave at 11/13/2017 2:15:00 PM
The first month of the DavesWeb Spam Challenge is over and the champion is...Groupon! Congratulations, Groupon, in 40 days you have sent me 157 separate emails, even though I have not visited your site once during that time and despite my repeated attempts to unsubscribe from your emails. Your spa...
Let The Spam Contest Begin! - 2,698 views.
Posted by Dave at 10/2/2017 8:57:23 PM
I get about 300 spam/junk emails every day. EVERY DAY! I am fairly certain that my email address began to get on spammer's lists about 25 years ago when I obtained this domain and my contact information is publicly available. I think there are ways I can hide this information but, no, I haven't tr...
Eliminating SharePoint Confusion - 4,614 views.
Posted by Dave at 3/4/2016 7:56:58 PM
One of the most interesting things about Microsoft SharePoint is its vast flexibility. Unfortunately, that flexibility requires developers to think about structure before things get crazily unwieldy. Adding to the confusion are terms that Microsoft hasn't kept completely consistent. In ord...
How to Encrypt data in PHP and Decrypt in C# - 6,970 views.
Posted by Dave at 1/18/2016 8:56:30 PM
My client has two websites running—one with user accounts and content managed by WordPress, and the second one with licensing and support ticket information that has been extracted from SalesForce.com and stored in a SQL Server database. We did it this way to minimize the PHP code we needed to writ...
Create a Simple RESTful Service using Visual Studio - 4,062 views.
Posted by Dave at 12/24/2015 4:23:20 PM
RESTful services are REALLY simple to consume. But they don't have to be complicated to build. This tutorial will help you create a VERY simple REST service that you can build with the FREE Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition and deploy with a FREE Azure AD account. Launch Visual Stu...
Prettifying Code Snippets on Web Pages - 3,645 views.
Posted by Dave at 11/21/2015 3:18:24 PM
TDD with MVC4 Code First EF6 Application - 10,667 views.
Posted by Dave at 7/10/2015 4:42:42 PM
Lickety-Split Coding with Code First MVC 4 Scaffolding - 12,224 views.
Posted by Dave at 6/29/2015 12:07:29 PM
Run An MVC4 Web App on a Web Server - 13,738 views.
Posted by Dave at 6/24/2015 12:07:29 PM
Horse Race Data Visualizations - 6,329 views.
Posted by Dave at 6/14/2015 7:44:06 PM
Simple Asp.Net: Using an ASHX Generic Handler - 5,890 views.
Posted by Dave at 6/5/2015 12:07:29 PM
Taking Embedded Javascript (EJS) For A Test Drive - 4,462 views.
Posted by Dave at 6/4/2015 1:25:29 PM
Simple JavaScript: Add/Hide Html Elements - 5,020 views.
Posted by Dave at 6/4/2015 1:30:29 PM