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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.

This post will show you how to create a custom config section in your .NET application and use it in your code.

I 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.

In 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.

This post gives you the code create a meta data scraper so you can get information from a url, using HtmlAgilityPack in C#.

ScreenToGif allows you to record a portion of your screen and save it as an animated gif. It also works with your webcam if you want.

This post shows you how to create a simple keep alive for a .NET website so people can stay logged in whilst the page is open, instead of it timing out after 20 minutes.

Caching is important because it can speed up your website or application. Here is a simple example for you to take away and re-use:

One thing that really annoys me is when someone asks the guest a question they nearly always reply back with 'wow that's a great question' or 'that's a really good question.'

In case you are looking for a regex to find a number greater than 1200 or something similar, I though I would post it so you can alter it for your needs.

If you are getting the error fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.6.3 not found but you definitely know you have the file, here is how to fix it in IIS.

I realised that I needed to change the mode of the form depending on which button was pressed. So I came up with this bit of javascript/jquery.