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Silverlight is an awesome product. As Flash is awesome and it’s glory. Silverlight is nicer for me, as I think in C# v. Action Script. That said, at work, we use the Adobe plug in model for quite a bit, it’s just not something I am personally familiar with. I have always been a fan
I recently moved ScottCate.com from my old hosting provider to Windows Azure Websites. It was so fast and simple, I wanted to do a srceencast showing just how easy it was. If you’re interested in blogging, or using WordPress for anything, you owe it to yourself to give this a shot.
On October 21st around 6pm Pacific time, our Azure CDN was gone! It came back a few hours later, but I started digging into a solution that would help mitigate this in the future (this post). Instead of the CDN serving content, it was serving 400’s (Bad Request). When something like this happens, we
I installed and started running Windows 8.1 a few weeks ago, and I started a new habit. Instead of hitting WINDOWS to launch the full screen start menu, I now just press [WINDOWS]+[S], to bring up the Search Charm. The nice thing about this is … it’s visually less movement, as the search charm will
When you log into a web site, using your Facebook account, you give that site access to some (and sometimes a lot) of your personal information, and even your friends information. Maybe it’s just your name, or email, or more, but still, it’s access. You should try and get into the habit of clearing
When you log into a web site, using your Google account, you give that site access to some of your personal information. Maybe it’s just your name, or email, or more, but still, it’s access. You should try and get into the habit of clearing these out on a regular basis. It just takes a
Have you ever used the Web Apps for Office? I am becoming more and more addicted to them. They’re touch friendly (with my new Touch Screen Ultra Book [Lenovo Yoga 13]), fast, and have the glue/sync of SkyDrive built in. In this quick screen cast, I create a word file on my desktop Word, in
As of last week, if I need to use two different accounts, on the same site, in chrome I would use the Primary browser, and the incognito instance. This gave me two instances of Chrome, where the cookies wouldn’t fight each other. Last week, while at lunch with guys from the office, they told me
I’m writing this as a fun fact that millions of people already know, and calling to light something that may seem obvious but you just never thought of. How can you calculate the miles per gallon on your car? Fill your tank with gas, all the way Set your trip on the odometer to zero
