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You are responsible for YOU
It is easy to point fingers and pass blame to others. Although, ultimately, at the end of the day you are the only one responsible for YOU!No matter what good or bad decisions you've made at home, at...
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Failure Is Greater Success Than Success.
Our society has a tendency to constantly focus on failure. Success is often short lived and generally only achieves "15 minutes of fame.""I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost...
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Overnight Success is Hardly Overnight
Every so often there are news headlines declaring that some person or company is an "overnight success." No personal reputation or business is ever built up overnight. It's a physical and social...
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Programming is the Reading and Writing of the Future
"Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you hot to think." - Steve Jobs"Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates...
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There is no product unless you first ship it!
Just as there is no business without something to sell; you do not have a product until you ship it.What to ship? How to ship? When to ship? Where to ship?There are many questions that need to be...
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Public Domain or at least Open Source Licensing Eventually
Most copyrighted products are proprietary and closed source; such as books, software programs and all other types of copyrightable materials. The reason for this, and a very good one IMO, is to allow...
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Basic Comparison of C# and Apple Swift Programming Language Syntax
Recently, Apple announced and released a beta version of the new Swift programming language for building iOS and OSX applications. Swift is a modern language with the power of Objective-C without the...
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Basic Comparison of Functions in C# and Apple Swift Programming Language
Previously I wrote a basic comparison of the C# and Apple Swift programming language syntax. In this article we'll dive a little deeper into a comparison in to how defining and calling Functions work...
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CQRS: Command Query Responsibility Segregation Design Pattern
I was recently turned onto the Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) design pattern by a co-worker. One of the biggest benefits of CQRS is that is aids in implementing distributed, highly...
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Community Engagement: Who do you follow? What do you share?
Some people have other people they follow in one manner or another. Some of the most commonly followed people in an industry are the "rockstars" of that industry. However, there are some people who...
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5 Common C# tasks in Apple Swift Programming Language
There are many simple tasks performed by C# developers over and over. These are common things necessary in all kinds of applications. This post will give an overview of a few of the most common tasks...
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Social Media has ruined my blog, or am I just lazy?
As I've been using Twitter more the last couple years, I've also been blogging less. Every time I go to write up a new blog entry I realize how long it's been since the previous post. I know I'm not...
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Lenovo.com Hacked Feb 25, 2015
It seems that Lenovo.com was hacked today by @LizardSquad. The site had a black background and played music and a carousel of webcam photos. Nothing too exciting, but I thought I'd document it.Here's a...
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Apple Watch NOT Insanely Great, Not Yet
Today is the day that Apple has opened preorders for the Apple Watch. There's a lot of conversation aboutĀ this new product, but we must all remember that it's the very first version of this brand new...
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jsQuizEngine - lightweight javascript quiz engine
I've been studying for some Microsoft certification exams lately. The exam I'm studying for right now is the Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-532) exam and this exam doesn't have any practice...
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Games and Facebook are Cool but Boring Software Runs the World
Mostly all tech news speaks about are either the latest consumerĀ features of your favorite Mobile Operating System (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile) or all the cool startups. There certainly have been a...
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Hack to Force new Skype for Business UI over Lync
Microsoft recently released an update that rebrands Lync as Skype for Business. Many got the update automatically through Windows Update, but not everyone gets the new user interface (UI). There is a...
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CSS-only Animated Loading Spinner
CSS Animations are a feature that's been around for a few years, but not many web developers know about it. CSS Animations allow you to define animations and transitions for HTML elements without the...
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First 10 Minutes with Raspberry Pi 2 and Windows 10 for IoT
My very first Raspberry Pi arrived yesterday. I'm super excited to get playing, and frankly I probably should have gotten one of the older versions sooner. Now that I've got Pi, I can start hacking!...
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How I passed the 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions certification exam
I've been taking onĀ some Microsoft certifications recently, and my latest success is passing the 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions exam; earning me the Microsoft Specialist: Developing...
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