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10.16.08Microsoft is giving you a Second Shot
Microsoft (0)A buddy of mine pointed out to me today that the good folks over at Microsoft are again offering their Second Shot for free. If you register and take a Microsoft exam between October 15, 2008 and December 31, and fail, you can rewrite it for free anytime up until June 30, 2009. If you pass the exam on your first try, you will get a 25% discount on your next exam which has to be taken before February 28, 2009. For more information and to register for the Second Shot, go to http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/offers/2ndchance/default.mspx. Personally, I'm hoping that I ...
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01.31.08Free App Du Jour: ASPhere 1.3.0
Free (1)Welcome to my first ever "Free App du Jour" post, which hopefully will become one of many. The "Free App du Jour" posts are simple posts that spotlight a free application that you probably haven't heard of yet, but will most likely (or hopefully will) find useful. So you won't find application such as Firefox, Opera, MySQL, all of the Visual Studio Expresses and SQL Server Express here, since there are pretty well known, and enough people have written about them. So without further ado ... Continue Reading...
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11.28.0715+ FREE Visual Studio Add-Ins - Part 2
VS2005, VisualStudio (21)15+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins (Part 1) was such a hit, that I've decided to use the feedback (and Google) to create Part 2 of the list. The same rules apply to this list. It must be free. It must run from within Visual Studio 2005. If I'm missing a FREE must have add-in, I'd love to hear about it. Continue Reading...
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10.20.0721+ FREE Regular Expression Tools & Resources (for .Net Developers)
Free, Regular Expressions (13)Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no denying that regular expressions are an important tool for parsing text. I've created a list of 21+ FREE tools and resources that may make writing regular expressions a bit easier. Continue Reading...
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10.08.0710+ FREE Blogging Editors
Uncategorized (9)So a few weeks ago, I decided to jump on the blogging bandwagon, and signup for a WordPress account. I must admit, I was impressed by how simple it was to install on a server (literally 5 minutes, like they said), configure, upload and select a theme and install plug-ins. There was one thing that bothered me and I couldn't ignore no matter how hard I tried ... their editor. For those of you who have never used WordPress, or have never looked under the covers of your posts, WordPress likes to auto format your code. It will strip out some of ...
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09.25.0715+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins
Free, VS2005, VisualStudio (60)Update: Check out the sequel to this post, "15+ FREE Visual Studio Add-Ins - Part 2" After some extensive researching (Googling), I've compiled this list of 15+ FREE Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005. Some of these add-ins will help improve the quality of your code, while others will help you code faster, however, none are guaranteed to help you get with the ladies. If there's an add-in that I've missed and you think that it should be added to this list, just post a comment with the name, URL, and a brief description. But before doing so, make sure that it meets the ...