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dev How to get a job as a Professional Developer

In 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 AJAX

In 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.

dev How to set up GA Event Tracking in 3 easy steps

This 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.NET

This 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 too

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 timeout

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.

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 question

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."

dev Regular Expression (regex) for a number greater than 1200

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.

dotnet How to fix Font Awesome WebFont woff2 not found

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.