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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.
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#.
dotnet Simple .NET keep alive handler to prevent timeoutThis 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.
dotnet Simple Reusable .NET Caching Example Code in C#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:
dev That's a really good questionOne 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."
dev Regular Expression (regex) for a number greater than 1200In 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.
dotnet How to fix Font Awesome WebFont woff2 not foundIf 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.
dotnet Switch between ajax and post back in the same formI 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.
dotnet How to create a random password generator in C#In this post I will show you how to create your own password generator in C#. It can be used to generate random strong passwords and it complies with recommendations from OWASP
dotnet LINQ method to see if two lists contain a matchThis post gives you the code to check if two lists contain a match. It is written in C# and uses LINQ.
dev No such thing as a full stack developerI see and hear it all the time, talking about people being full stack developers. I don't believe they are.
dev Don't miss the Windows 10 free upgrade deadline this weekYou have until Friday 29th July 2016 (2 days left at the time of writing this article) to upgrade for free. After that you will need to pay $119 (£90) for the Home version and $199 (£150) for the Pro version.