Ronnie Diaz
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Thoughts on Wikileaks
Prior to the recent major events surrounding the release of 250k classified documents by Wikileaks on Julian Assange authority, I had browsed Wikileaks and discovered rarely any information that provided anything more than “tabloid style” unverified references as proof of… Continue reading
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Lambda Functions in .Net
Lambda expressions in .Net are denoted by the ‘=>’ symbol. These powerful operators can be used to create sleek, optimized loops that perform much faster. The usage below condenses the equivalent of at least 20 lines of two loops. (Sorry… Continue reading
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The Gameshow
Congratulations! You three contestants have made it to the final round of… The Greatest Gameshow On Earth ! The crowd screams wild in anticipation and the world watches on simultaneous webcasts and TVs as we approach the conclusion of our… Continue reading
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Aldi Stores Credit Card Fraud
A recent article I came across from my Security Focus newsletter inspired my latest post regarding the recent Aldi Credit Card fraud that occurred across 31 states. (See entire article below) To quote the article’s author: “It looks like this… Continue reading
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Facebook is down!
As of approx. October 6, 12:30 AM EST GMT -5 Facebook HTTP services seemed to have gone down. Ping tests were successful during this time, however, attempts to load the website resulted in timeouts. More updates tomorrow morning after some… Continue reading
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Using jQuery and ScriptManager to update dynamic page elements
I recently came across a situation where an element on the page was not updating dynamically after post backs. It was quick and easy to add an update panel and the necessary logic to use the built in asp .Net… Continue reading
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Get Current Page Name in ASP .NET
The code snippet below is a quick, easy to use function which allows you to get the current active page in an asp .net website/application. There are similar functions for getting header information about a page, however, after some research… Continue reading
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Why Geeks Should Love the iPad
After reading a similarly titled article on Forbes, I was inspired to write a counter-argument. The author of the Forbes article implies that the stringent security of the iPad and this line of Apple products is limiting users freedom to… Continue reading
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Programmatically fire an event handler in ASP .NET
I recently came across a situation which any web application developer may face where an assembly reference containing the code-behind for each ASPX page was deprecated and the original source code was no longer available. Since this code also includes… Continue reading
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