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Steven enjoys all things technical, politics, fun and family. Basically life in general.
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Ten WordPress Plugins To Help You Manage Advertising
Managing advertising campaigns is easier than you may think with the right plugin. There are a number of different ways you can add advertisements to your WordPress blog and I thought I would take the time to list the plugins that I feel work best for me. Various WordPress plugins may assign advertising blocks to [...]
Just Say No To ObamCare
As you know President Obama has set a deadline of March 18, 2010 for the vote on healthcare. If you stand in the corner that I do representing that Government ran healthcare is not the solution to the problem please make your voice heard by calling your representatives and indicate your stand on this issue. [...]
National ID Cards
Have you heard about the national ID card? While I had heard little about this program I had not given it any real attention until recently while listening to Bill O’Reilly and Lou Dobbs. Both made some great points as to how such a card could increase security and reduce fraud in the United States [...]
.NET Performance Counters
Recently while catching up on technical reading I ran across the subject of performance counters. I must admit that I had not looked closely at this subject in the past and thought it was time to do so. If you are not sure what performance counters are and what they provide simply put they have [...]
Five C# Code Snippets
A snippet is a small section of text or source code that can be inserted into the code of a program. Snippets provide an easy way to implement commonly used code or functions into a larger section of code. Instead of rewriting the same code over and over again, a programmer can save the code [...]
The 2010 Razzie Award Winners
The 2010 Academy Awards wrapped up yesterdays and we all know who the winners were. Now for a little more fun it is time to turn your attention to the 2010 Razzie Award Winners, yes it is the best of the worst and Sandra Bullock even won an award for All About Steve. While there were [...]
Quickly And Easily Download And Install Applications With InstallPad
InstallPad is one of those products that I ran across some time back and I had forgotten about it until recently. If you have not heard of this yourself stay tuned because it can greatly assist you when it comes to the are of software installations. If you stop and think about it how many [...]
Office Ribbon Hero
Are you a ribbon hero? Want to be one? Do you have no idea what I am speaking of? If you’re a casual gamer or a die hard then you may enjoy Ribbon Hero which is a game for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2007 and 2010. While it is not Halo for the XBox, it [...]
Navy SEALs Facing Charges During Objective Amber
I just find it extremely difficult to believe that three Navy SEAL personnel are facing charges for slapping around and punching a terrorist while conducting an operation in Iraq. Now while I do not condone the actions, I tend to believe that these individuals should not face a court martial for those actions. In today’s [...]
PowerGUI Is A Graphical Interface For PowerShell
If you have been wanting to look at PowerShell and do not relish the idea of working with the command prompt have no fear. The fine folks at Quest Software have you covered with PowerGUI, a graphical user interface and script editor for Microsoft Windows PowerShell! The beauty of this product is not simply the [...]
Deal Of The Day
Everyone loves to save money and have the toys at the same time. Why should you be any different? As I run accross deals that I find interesting I want to pass them along to you but you’ll always need to act fast, because when they sell out, they’re gone! Quantities are always limited, and [...]
Microsoft Certified Professional Training
A Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) certification would be one area where you can set yourself about your peers as a Microsoft professional. A variety of IT fields may become available as an individual seeks the schooling and training necessary to obtain a MCP certificate. There are a number of different ways that you [...]
Tools of the Trade: March 2010
As a software engineer there are a number of tools that I use on a daily basis to both increase productivity and make my job easier. Each month I will discuss products that I either currently use, have used in the past, and what I am hearing is the next best product.
Products may include but [...]
Is The Apple iPhone Dead Or Just Dying
Is the Apple iPhone losing its market place and is Apple beginning to feel the pressure from other vendors? According to data that I have read as recent as January 2010 Apple has 0.12% of the market share whereas HTC has 0.24%. I find these numbers extremely interesting for a number of reasons. First, nobody [...]
Make Money Blogging
Making money while blogging is not as difficult as you may think. I will say that if you have dreams at becoming rich right away you are setting yourself up for a disappointment. If you focus on quality content and communications with your readers as time goes own you may find that you begin to [...]
Cyber Security: What You Must Know
Cyber Security is a subject that most people know very little about in the grand scheme of things. In today’s day’s age of electronics a high number of the population is constantly connected in one way or another. If you do not think you’re wired all you need to do it take a look at [...]
The Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Study Guide
The Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Study Guide will allow you to demonstrate your expertise with the 2007 Microsoft Office system! This comprehensive study guide covers all the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exams for Microsoft Office, including Word 2007, Excel 2007, Outlook 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and Access 2007. For each exam, you ll build the skills [...]
Visual Studio 2010: The Next Generation Of The IDE From Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 is bringing both greater quality and robust tools to the .NET software developer like nothing ever done before. As a .NET developer I have been using Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE since version 6.0 and I have continued with this IDE since the introduction of Visual Studio .NET roughly nine years ago. Microsoft [...]
How To Obtain Environment Details With .NET 3.5
Have you ever found yourself needing to obtain environment details concerning the server where your application resides? If so, take a look at the System Namespace and specifically the Environment Class which provides information about, and means to manipulate, the current environment and platform. A little later in this article I provide a working example. [...]
Charting Controls In ASP.NET
Recently I inherited a legacy Microsoft .NET 1.1 web application that employed charts via a third party vendor. Since I am working to best support this project I thought I would turn my attention to the Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 that I recalled first reading about from Scott Guthrie, aka @ScottGu. As [...]
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