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The Story of C# Meeting AngularJS
Most of you already know that I still like my WebForms. People have argued that using AngularJS with WebForms is pointless, but I say NA! It makes the user experience a little bit smoother. In this blog I will show…
5 Steps to Finding Employment as a Computer or Web Developer
5 Steps to Finding Employment as a Computer / Web Developer from Andrew Pallant Related Title: http://andrewpallant.com/wordpress/the-two-sides-to-job-hunting/
Posted in Deployment, Employment Search, How To, Job Search, Professional Development Tagged with: After Graduation, Employment Search
The Two Sides to Job Hunting
I have had students ask me about how to get hired or who is hiring. I have also had employers ask me how to find developers when they have had a tough time hiring quality employees. These are tough questions…
Posted in Bosses, Developer, Employment Search, How To, interview, job interview, Job Search, Jobs, Mentor, Team Tagged with: job seeking, jobs
The Lawn Mower Woes
Last weekend was a holiday weekend where I was supposed to get a lot of yard work done. Part of the yard work was to cut the grass, but alas I suffered the lawn mower woes. You may recall in…
French and Other Language Characters – Classic ASP
Recently working with PayPal and Classic ASP I stumbled unto a problem where French characters were being encoded and displayed as unreadable text. It turns out that PayPal returns the result to you using UTF-8. In C# this would be…
Posted in ASP, Developement, How To, Visual Basic Tagged with: Classic ASP, French, Language Characters, PayPal, UTF-8
Auto-Link Using Regular Expressions
I was recently asked if I could automatically turn website text (ex: www.google.com ) into HTML hyperlinks. My first thought was ah CRAP! I also wondered why they could not use the link tool in the editor, but they asked…
Posted in C#, C-Sharp, Developement, How To, Web Tagged with: c#, DotNet, RegEx, Regular Expressions, Web
ieGetNavigationHistory Popup Error
Recently received a laptop from a friend who had a popup error every 3 seconds when using Internet Explorer 9. The error was a simple popup with an “ok” button as its only option to continue. The key text on…
HTML Will not fix the Lawn Mower
HTML will not fix the lawn mower. No matter how much I can write code, what I know will not fix my lawn mower. I checked the oil. I checked the gas. I pulled the cord of the single pull…
How to use SQL to Extract a Number from a String
Recently I had a need to extract the number from a string in the database. The string would be something like ‘Monitor 16″‘ or “16 inch Monitor”. I would need to get the size for various reasons including fees…
