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Such a casual question at party could have terrible consequences when you use weak passwords on the Internet. The best advice is to use a unique password for each account. If you spend all day online like me, plus a little more at home, you've probably garnered somewhere north of 50 or more accounts. The question to ask yourself is which of those accounts are just fine for a hacker to slip into because you used a weak password? Probably none, right? Just to put a little more emphasis on it, let's... Read More...

I was working with a web service client that talked to SharePoint this week. I wrote a quick Silverlight app that extracted a list of tasks out of a SharePoint list. I love how simple this is to tap into: http://sharepoint.yourcompany.com/_vti_bin/lists.asmx The previous URL will show the path to one of the web services provided out-of-the-box by SharePoint. This particular web service provides several methods for dealing with SharePoint lists. I just needed to call the GetListItems() method and... Read More...

I'm working on a solution that requires a special type of chart to visualize results from some elaborate number crunching algorithms. Dundas Chart for .Net has an implementation of the standard polar chart. That's the closest "buy" option I could find and it might very well do the job. I'm a big fan of using existing software when it can solve a significant portion of the problem domain. When you find a good off-the-shelf option, they're often inexpensive and supported ... Read More...