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How to Validate Email Addresses in C#

Posted on June 8, 2009 by matt in Web Development No Comments

I was recently doing doing support for a client that had a newsletter system. The previous employee had neglected to do much in the form of format validation for email addresses from both a user-input standpoint and system-integrity standpoint. Since there were several email addresses in the database that didn’t meet the basic conventions of […]

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Create a Sortable HTML Table with JQuery and TableSorter

Posted on June 5, 2009 by matt in Web Development No Comments

One of the more useful features of ASP.NET’s GridView control is that users can sort the information in the table they are seeing by any number of fields. To allow this sorting to happen, ASP.NET sends a post-back to the server and the web server re-renders the page with the GridView re-sorted in the order […]

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How to Validate Forms with JQuery

Posted on June 3, 2009 by matt in Web Development 1 Comment

Just about everyone who’s ever made a web-application knows that you generally can’t trust your users to enter data correctly into a form. Some of them will ignore important fields, others will type in data that couldn’t possibly be right. Some will try to choose two character passwords and others will enter in a long […]

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Hash Passwords in C# and Visual Basic Using SHA-512

Posted on June 2, 2009 by matt in Web Development 2 Comments

We recently covered an easy way to hash passwords using SHA-1 in .NET using either Visual Basic or C#. In most cases, SHA-1 encryption is “secure enough”, but there are some mathematical weaknesses. Microsoft’s .NET platform (specifically the System.Security class) allows you to encrypt passwords with a number of differnet algorithms without having to know the […]

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How to Authenticate a User in Active Directory using ASP.NET

Posted on June 2, 2009 by matt in Web Development 7 Comments

If you’re working in an academic or large corporate or government setting, changes are you’re going to have a network in place using Active Directory or an open-source equivalent. Every user in the organization will have some sort of an account to use. If you’re building an internal web-application or desktop-application, it doesn’t make a […]

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How to Resize Photos in ASP.NET

Posted on June 1, 2009 by matt in Web Development No Comments

If you’re developing a website that allows users to upload any sort of photos or images, you have to expect that they aren’t going to bother doing any sort of basic image manipulation, such as resizing an 8 megapixel image down to something that’s appropriate for the web. Fortunately, there are a number of good […]

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Make A Quick & Easy Testing Environment for Joomla, Magento, WordPress and Other Open Source Web-Applications

Posted on May 28, 2009 by matt in Web Development 1 Comment

Earlier this week, I wrote up a tutorial about how to make a testing environment for Joomla on the windows platform. I went through the instructions of setting up WAMP, making the database, and installing and configuring Joomla. It turns out there’s a much easier way to create a testing environment for Joomla, Magento, MySQL, […]

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JQuery Date Picker: One Step Torwards Making Forms That Work

Posted on May 28, 2009 by matt in Web Development No Comments

While attending Microsoft Mix earlier this spring, I stumbled upon a book called “Making Forms That Work“, which was written by Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney. The book focused on building web-forms that aren’t intimidating and that people will actually fill out. One of the focuses was making sure to use the right controls for […]

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How to Export Data to Excel in C# and ASP.NET

Posted on May 27, 2009 by matt in Web Development 4 Comments

If you develop a web-application for a client that involves creating and viewing reports, it’s very likely that they’re going to want to be able to export that data to excel very readily. Fortunately, you won’t need any special libraries or hundreds of lines of code to make that happen in ASP.NET. All you need […]

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Your WordPress Blog or Website

Posted on May 26, 2009 by matt in Web Development 10 Comments

WordPress is without a doubt the most popular blogging platform on the web. It’s easy to use, relatively secure, very extensible and best of all free. Unfortunately, it’s not optimized for search engines terribly well out of the box. The URLs that it generates don’t have any keywords in them. There’s no way to customize […]

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I am a Christian, a husband, a father, an entrepreneur, an author and a private equity investor.

I am the founder of MarketBeat, the founder of Startup Sioux Falls and a co-founder of GoGo Photo Contest.

I have a B.S. in Computer Science and a M.S. in Information Systems from Dakota State University. I also hold a M.A. in Christian Leadership from Sioux Falls Seminary.

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