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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 use the product as they wish and will ultimately drive geeks away. On the contrast,…
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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 event handlers, any functions that need to be intercepted or their logic modified are now…
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The Truth About Microsoft
I must admit, I haven’t been the largest fan of Microsoft products and policies. (With the exclusion of Visual Studio and the .NET and XNA platforms.. and Silverlight and Excel…) However, it’s very easy to jump on the “anti-MS bandwagon” and media hype depicting “The Fall of Microsoft” is inaccurate and biased… accordingly, very recently,…
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The “Iron man interface”
While researching some technical and design patents, I stumbled across a very cool/interesting little patent reminiscent of something you might see in one of the recent “Iron Man” movies. Although “Tony Stark”, especially in his latest installment, is working with digital projections which is a little further off from touch-sensitive surfaces, it is interesting to…
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