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This blog post makes it easy for you to set up Google reCAPTCHA on your MVC website. It also works with Umbraco.
dotnet Open-source Project: Password GeneratorI recently caught the bug of contributing to open-source projects after my first pull request was accepted. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to make an open-source library for my password generator. It is a C# .NET project.
tools Affinity Photo Free Windows Beta is OUT NOWOn Mac, Affinity Photo was chosen as Apple's App of the Year 2015. You can now get the Windows Beta for free.
dev How to get a job as a Professional DeveloperIn this post I will aim to give you the best advice I can, in order to help you achieve your goal of becoming a professional developer.
dotnet How to change a form in MVC to submit with AJAXIn this video you will see how to change the form to submit using AJAX. I recorded this video live for my livecoding channel. The code I wrote for this tutorial is further down this post.
tools What is the Microsoft Botframework and, more importantly, what is LUIS?This posts tells you about the Microsoft Botframework, and focuses mainly on the star of the show LUIS.
dev How to set up GA Event Tracking in 3 easy stepsThis post makes setting up Event Tracking with GA really easy. It's definitely worth doing on your site.
dev What does the term dogfooding mean?There are certain terms in the software industry which you may hear for the first time and immediately understand their meaning. For instance, backdoor; a hidden method of gaining access to a computer system. The term dogfooding is not an obvious one. This post explains what dogfooding is and gives you examples of which companies are doing it.
dotnet How to create and use custom configuration sections in ASP.NETThis post will show you how to create a custom config section in your .NET application and use it in your code.
dev Developers are creative tooI used to think I wasn't a creative person, I just have a logical thinking brain and not a creative one. I used to think the creative types of people are the graphic designers or the front end developers who make fancy animations.
tools 7 useful tips for creating a successful blogIn this post I'm going to share with you what I have learned from my first year of blogging, and how I managed to get over 116,000 visits to my site in the first year.
dotnet How to scrape meta data from a url using HtmlAgilityPack in C#This post gives you the code create a meta data scraper so you can get information from a url, using HtmlAgilityPack in C#.