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What to do when you have been ghosted by a recruiter
I have recently been ghosted by a recruiter from a local company and it is very frustrating. I am sure that I did not get the job, but it would be nice to have a simple answer and some feedback on why they didn’t select me. I feel like the following article blames the candidate,…
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Proper case a string using RegEx in Javascript, except for words in parenthesis
Today I had to find a way to proper case a string, except anything that is in parenthesis. That sounds like a mouthful, so to clarify, I wanted to turn “JAVASCRIPT ROCKS (JS)” into “Javascript Rocks (JS)”, so I created a regular expression to do this task in an Adobe LiveCycle form. this.rawValue = this.rawValue.replace(/(?!\w*\))(\w\S*)/g, function(txt){…
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Must have applications for development
I recently had to re-install ALL of the applications that I use at work when they gave me a new Windows 7 based computer, so I thought I would list out the apps that I HAVE to have to operate. These are listed in no particular order: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Express Visual Studio 2012 –…
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Hire Remotely
As I wrote in my post Working From Home, I loved working remotely and I wish more companies would hire remote workers. I felt I was much more productive, I felt I was healthier and I just read an article from one of my favorite programmers called “Hire Remotely“. If you have a company, please…
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Adding a solution to TFS without adding the NuGet packages.
I was adding a project that I just completed to TFS source control and noticed that it wanted to add the packages to source control also, but I didn’t want that because you are not supposed to add the NuGet packages. They can be re-downloaded and installed during the build process for anyone that does…
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Bible Chronological Reading Plan Differences
I am using the Bible App to try and read the Bible in a year, so I chose the Chronological reading plan from them. It has been very helpful, but I didn’t feel like I was getting enough out of it, so an elder from my church has a web site with Chronological Study Guides, but…
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C# Parallel Tasks gives MAJOR Speed Increase
I just used parallel tasks to decrease the time a process took from over an hour to about 2 minutes. I was wary of creating so many database contexts, but it paid off in a major way! See the snippet of code below to see how I used the Parallel.ForEach. .Net created almost 100 threads during…
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Cool Google Photo feature – Auto Awesome
I just uploaded some wedding photos that I took to Google+ Photos, and it created some “auto awesome” animated GIF photos from photos that are similar. I thought they were pretty cool, so I thought I would share a few of them with you. Here they are:
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Ability to Sync is a great reason to use Lastpass to save your passwords
I am a user of Lastpass and I am working with a large multi national company on a contract. They had a new employee start and they were trying to use KeePass, which I hear is a great password manager, but he couldn’t access his passwords because it is trying to use a port that is…
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Added HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery to my resume
Here is a link to my resume that adds my recent experience with HTML5, CSS3, Twitter Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery and more. Also, check out my About page to find out more about me.