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Weekly Poll Results

Do you use your work email or personal email as a username?

Survey period: 1 Sep 2014 to 8 Sep 2014

Websites often require an email address as a sign-on. Us developers are, well, "questioning" by nature. So do you use your work email or personal email when signing up?

Option	Votes	%
Usually my work email	128	8.72
Usually my work email when I don't trust them, personal when I do trust them	170	11.58
Random / alternative algorithm	193	13.15
Usually my personal email	779	53.07
I use a fake email address	198	13.49
Total	1468	100%

This week's survey: Do you use your work email or personal email as a username?

New Articles, Tech Blogs and Tips added

.NET Framework

Create Primary Key using Entity Framework Code First   (5 votes) by Dukhabandhu Sahoo Explore the Entity Framework Code First convention and configuration for creating primary key.

ASP.NET

MVC and jQuery with WCF Data Service   (10 votes) by Chathuranga Muthukumarana MVC and jQuery with WCF Data Service

C#

Custom Getter Setters in C# using Regular Expression based templates   (5 votes) by amitthk (updated 20 hrs ago) Quickly generate Getter Setters for a number of your properties in C# - using regular Expression based templates

Solving Scramble Squares - Backtracking Algorithm in C#   (1 vote) by emkhsh Non graphical solution for scrambled squares problem

Charts, Graphs and Images

Creating New Map Regions in GeoJSON   (1 vote) by Erik Vullings Converting a PostGIS table to GeoJSON

Cross Platform

How to build Mono 3.8.0 on Windows   (3 votes) by Alex J Lennon A refreshed article on how to build the current release of Mono on Windows

Cryptography & Security

Dastine; Web Browser Plugin for interaction with Smart Cards and Tokens by Hossein Rezaei Ghaleh, Mehrdad Khosravi This article is about Dastine. Dastine is a FREE web browser plugin for interaction with Smart Cards and USB Tokens to Digital Signing and Encryption. Dastine doesn't require any dependency package on client side such as .Net Framework or Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Database

Data Parsing SQL to JSON   (3 votes) by Abhishek Jaiswall Data parsing SQL to JSON

Fibonacci sequence in Oracle using sinqle SQL statement   (1 vote) by Mika Wendelius This tip shows two ways of generating Fibonacci numbers in a single SQL statement

Sequential GUIDS in Python by computermagic Example of generating sequential GUIDs from Python

Document / View

How To Create a Word Document using Spire.Doc   (1 vote) by Nitesh Luharuka How to create a Word document using Spire.doc

Java

Producer-Consumer Problem by lgoyal06 This is an alternative solution for "Producer-Consumer Problem"

Node.js

Node.js introduction using MEAN stack with WebMatrix   (2 votes) by Rajiv Gogoi Introduction to building a web application using Node.js along with Angular.js

Programming Tips

Writing for Readability   (2 votes) by PeejayAdams Some thoughts on the importance of readability.

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

2 out of 3: Exam 70-486   (1 vote) by Kevin Mack Hello All, so the past week has been particularly busy, but as I sit here tonight, while working through one of the most chaotic weeks since my daughter was born.  I wanted to take a second and have the followup to a previous post about the MCSD exams.For those of you who know me, you know that I've

ZeroMQ #7: A Simple Actor Model by Sacha Barber Last time we looked at using ZeroMQ to use a "Divide And Conquer" pattern to distribute work to a number of workers and then combine the results again. Since I wrote that last post I have had a bit of think about this series of posts, and realised that nothing I can say here would […]

Is Contracting For You? by Ronnie Mukherjee I  have been contracting for around two and a half years now. This isn't long at all in the grand scheme of things, nevertheless I thought I would share some thoughts on contracting compared with permanent employment, from my slightly limited point of view. If you are considering taking the plunge i

Windows Communication Foundation

Why We Use WCF Service and Sample of WCF Service   (4 votes) by Mehta Priya Why we use WCF service and a sample of WCF service

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Articles, Tech Blogs and Tips updated

.NET Framework

Wish You Were Here… Only Once   (58 votes) by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov (updated 3 days ago) A description of techniques based on context-sensitive conditions

CRUD Operations Using the Generic Repository Pattern and Unit of Work in MVC   (16 votes) by Sandeep Singh Shekhawat (updated 2 hrs ago) This article introduces the Generic Repository pattern and Unit of Work in ASP.NET MVC applications.

Code First Migrations With Entity Framework   (12 votes) by Sandeep Singh Shekhawat (updated 2 days ago) This article will provide answers to the following questions relevant to relationships in Entity Framework: whether or not to create a database, how to add / remove a field from an existing table, how to avoid data loss and how to get a database script that has the changes.

Algorithms & Recipes

Parsing a Key-Value pair with a Regular Expression   (3 votes) by Marco Bertschi (updated 20 hrs ago) A walk-through on how a Key-Value pair can be parsed using a PERL-compatible regex engine

Applications & Tools

ToDoList 6.9.B9 (Beta Release) - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks   (2,107 votes) by .dan.g., autoQA (updated 2 days ago) A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.

ASP.NET

Introduction to ASP.NET Boilerplate   (89 votes) by Halil ibrahim Kalkan (updated yesterday) ASP.NET Boilerplate is a starting point for new modern web applications using best practices and most popular tools.

Pivot Grid in Asp.Net MVC   (24 votes) by Anurag Gandhi (updated 2 days ago) A Grid/Report control in Asp.Net MVC with pivot option

Audio and Video

Practical Sound Recorder with Sound Activation   (8 votes) by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov (updated 2 days ago) The convenience of this Sound Recorder is defined by its minimalism and understanding of the purpose

Client side scripting

ColorPicker - a jQuery UI Widget   (30 votes) by Olivier Giulieri (updated 21 hrs ago) A web color picker which looks like the one in Microsoft Office 2010.

Design and Architecture

Interfaces and Abstract Classes   (34 votes) by Paulo Zemek (updated yesterday) A deep explanation on when to use interfaces and abstract classes.

HTML / CSS

HTML5/CSS3 graphic enhancement: buttons, inputs   (85 votes) by DrABELL (updated 2 days ago) Aesthetic enhancement of HTML5 web elements via pure CSS3; no image files required

Internet / Network

Reusable multithreaded TCP client and server classes with example project in VB.NET   (53 votes) by pdoxtader (updated 12 hrs ago) A multithreaded server class that accepts multiple connections from a provided client class. Each client can send and receive files and text (byte data) simultaneously along 250 available channels.

Miscellaneous

CircleControl - A Circular Motion Control   (66 votes) by Graham Wilson (updated 2 days ago) A circular motion control

Progress Controls

The Amazing ProgressBar Control   (157 votes) by Graham Wilson (updated 14 hrs ago) A progress bar which displays progress as passage through a simple maze.

Ultrabooks

Engineering Calculator VOLTA-2013   (22 votes) by DrABELL (updated 2 days ago) Engineering Calculator VOLTA-2013 (Productivity Software contest submission package) was originally developed as HTML5 web application and later converted into desktop installable app using Intel's AppUp encapsulator. The latest version VOLTA-814 for Win 7/8 released in 2014 is built on .NET/WPF.

Windows Presentation Foundation

The Problem of Unwanted WPF ProgressBar Animation: a Clearer Solution   (2 votes) by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov (updated 3 days ago) A monstrous XAML solution is hardly adequate to such a simple problem