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Why I got the MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect Certification
Over the last few months I spent a ton of time studying for and passing the 3 exams required to earn the Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) Azure Solutions Architect certification....
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Announcing new Azure blog: BuildAzure.com
While studying for the MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect certification I decided to blog a lot more on all things Azure. Also, instead of posting those posts here, I decided to create a completely new...
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Peek Inside Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta
Microsoft recently released the Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta. It's a free app for existing Mojang customers who have already purchased the desktop/Java version of Minecraft. This is one of the...
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Tools Don't Make You Great
Every career and industry has it's own set of tools that are commonly used. Software Development is no different. These tools offer varying degrees of functionality that help people do their jobs. To a...
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JavaScript Basics: How to create a Dictionary with Key/Value pairs
In statically typed programming languages a Dictionary (Key/Value pair collection) object can be very useful at times. While JavaScript doesn't natively include a type called "Dictionary", it does...
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JavaScript Basics: Url / Page Navigation via document.location
Most often from an HTML page when you need to navigate the user to a different page it will be done via an anchor tag ("<a/>"). This works fine if the user explicitly initiates the navigation by...
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JavaScript Basics: String Contains Function
In many of the server-side programming languages like C#, the String object has a "Contains" method that returns a boolean indicating if the string contains another specified string. JavaScript however...
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jQuery Basics: Is Element Hidden or Visible?
A very common code snippet that's used a lot in various applications is the ability to detect if a specific element in the page is hidden or visible. jQuery provides some very useful functionality that...
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JavaScript Tips: Parse QueryString to Dictionary
The URL Query String is something that is usually just sent to the server-side code and parse there for use in specifying the data to query. A somewhat little known feature of the JavaScript DOM is...
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Windows Live Writer now Open Source! as Open Live Writer
The old Windows Live Writer application for authoring blog posts in a “Word-style” fashion was a really good blog authoring application. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been maintained by Microsoft in a long...
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Exciting Time for Makers! We're in a Maker Renaissance!
This is something I've thought about from time to time the last few years. It's also something that just keeps getting more and more exciting; amazing if you will! The "Maker culture" has been around...
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Code Tip: Simpler Performance Timer Logging in C#
At this point application logging is pretty trivial as there are tons of logging libraries available for use. However, logging of performance timing is a bit ambiguous. There are many ways to do it,...
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Beachbody On Demand - Netflix of Exercise
Personally, I've been a Beachbody customer since 2010 when I originally began my own personal fitness and health journey. I first started with P90X and then purchased the newer P90X3 from Beachbody and...
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Do your best and Own it
A couple years ago I posted some thoughts on "You are responsible for YOU" pointing out that you much take control for your own actions. I've been thinking about this a bit recently and thought I would...
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Be True to Yourself, First
There are many times in life that we get nudged in this direction or that so that we make other people happy by doing or saying what's necessary to get to that goal. We all need people to work for, be...
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TDD: Testable is most important
Test Driven Development (TDD) is great and it really helps you build better, higher quality systems. Unit Tests FTW! However, when TDD meets the real world, there is a clash and many times developers...
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Failure is the cost of Wisdom
Everyone fails at something before they succeed. There is so much more to learn from failure than success. I've posted before about Failure being greater success than success pointing out how valuable...
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Find Your Passion
Much of success in life hinges on finding something you're passionate about. Sure, certain interests that turn into passions can be difficult to build a career around, but there's certainly ways to do...
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Software is like Automobiles and has a lot to learn
Recently I watched the documentary "A Faster Horse" which is a story about the Ford Mustang and the creation of the new 2015 redesign for the 50th anniversary of the Mustang. There was a quote from...
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Raspberry Pi 3 released, faster CPU, integrated Wifi
It's only been a year since the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B was released, and to mark the 4th birthday of the Raspberry Pi a new Pi is being released today. The NEW Raspberry Pi 3 Model B! This new Pi...
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