Single Payee Credit Cards for Recurring Payments
A proposal for single-payee credit cards that could only be charged by one vendor, reducing fraud and making it easier to cancel recurring payments.
Blog Posts
MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
Dayton.NET User Group Talk on Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices
Last night I spoke at the Dayton.NET User Group on the topic of
Copy a Table with data in SQL Server
Sometimes when you're about to do some major surgery on your
Seth Godin The Dip
A review of The Dip by Seth Godin, covering when to quit and when to push through to become the best in your chosen category.
How Developers Are Using var in C#
The var keyword was introduced in C# 3.0, and has since gained quite a bit of popularity. There is also a fair bit of contention over how it should be used, with posts like this one (with which I happen to agree) being …
Using Google Realtime Search to track Trends
How to use Google's Realtime search feature to track trending topics on social media, including monitoring event hashtags and viewing timelines.
Creating a SOLID Visual Studio Solution
The SOLID acronym describes five object-oriented design principles that, when followed, produce code that is cleaner and more maintainable. The last principle, the Dependency Inversion Principle, suggests that details …
On the Usefulness of Xml Summary Comments with Poll Results
Last week I hosted a quick poll on Twitter about how useful a
Entity Framework Error – Model compatibility cannot be checked
If you're using Entity Framework Code First and you have everything
Record Visual Studio Web Test Using Fiddler
Fiddler is a great tool for examining and working with HTTP requests. If you're a web developer, it's one of those tools that you should definitely be at least aware of.