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This post shows you how to find the hidden dinosaur game in Google Chrome, without having to turn off or disconnect your internet.

In this post, I share 10 of my favourite free tools with you so you can get the benefit of them too.

This post shows you how to set up and use bundling and minification in your MVC website. There are specific instructions on how set it up for Umbraco websites too.

I must admit, in the past when I just want some code to run, but it's not critical if it fails, I have written a try catch block which looks like this.

It drives me crazy when I see code where someone is checking a boolean to see if it is true or not and they write it like this.

This post shows you how to create your own custom validation attributes in MVC. You can then decorate your model properties with them on your forms.

Workflowy allows you to write lists to help you focus on what's required to complete a certain job, it's free, really easy to use, and it is available on web, iOS and Android.

If you enjoy writing code and solving puzzles, you will love Project Euler.

This post contains examples of how to generate a SHA 256 and SHA 512 hash key with the examples in C# and VB.NET This solution matches the expected result for Ingenico's implementation for their payment gateway.

LINQPad is ideal if you find some code on the internet that you want to quickly test, or if you want to play with the new features in C# without having to set up a windows console/forms app or website.

This post shows you how you can do client side, unobtrusive validation on your MVC form. It assumes you have already set up your Model, View and Controller, but you just need to know how to get it to validate on the client side.

This post gives you some examples of how you can check for errors when retrieving web.config app setting values.