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Whence Comes the Money, Hence Comes Regulation . . .
SOPA and PIPA are only the beginning . . .We all knew it would happen. Back in the '90s, Big media came late to the internet game. For most if its history, the internet has been (rightfully) held as a...
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Dana White vs. Anonymous: SOPA/PIPA and Due Process
Revenge of the NerdsIn the last week, there has been a most entertaining (and semi-civil) exchange on Twitter between the public face of the Activist group Anonymous and Dana White, President of the...
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We’re from the government. We’re here to help.There is a war going on with respect to the internet, but it is not the war most people think it is. We hear concerns about digital piracy from the...
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The One-Sided Nature of DMCA
A work in ProgressIt becomes more and more apparent each year that the historical frameworks governing copyrights and patents in this country (if not the world) has become strained under advances in...
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Webmatrix 3: Integrated Git and Deployment to Azure
TL;DR -Webmatrix 3 is cooler than you might think. It offers a very convenient set of features which to my mind are a complement to, and not replacement for, a more robust development environment....
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In Response to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan)
Representative Mike Rogers (R-Michigan), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said of Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who published secret material leaked by former NSA contractor Edward...
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Creating a Clean, Minimal-Footprint ASP.NET WebAPI Project with VS 2012 and...
Cutting the Bloat and Cruft Out of the Standard ASP.NET WebApi Project in Visual Studio The default WebApi project template that ships with Visual Studio 2012 has a lot to offer in some respects, but...
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Building Out a Clean, REST-ful WebApi Service with a Minimal WebApi Project
Build Out a Clean, Minimal-Footprint REST-ful API In a previous post, we saw how to create a minimal ASP.NET WebApi project template, so that we can avoid some of the bloat and complexity inherent in...
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ASP.NET MVC: Configuring ASP.NET MVC 4 Membership with a SQL CE Database
Recently I needed to set up an ASP.NET MVC project to work with a SQL CE database. I also needed to use SQL CE as the backing store for the ASP.NET Membership feature. This was a simple,...
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Reverse-Engineering an Existing Database in your ASP.NET MVC Application...
Entity Framework's "Code-First" development model has become a highly popular approach to data modeling in ASP.NET MVC development in the last few years. The Code First approach saves the average...
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ASP.NET MVC–Azure Websites and EF Model First Connection Strings when...
One of the coolest things about Windows Azure Websites is the integration with source control, and the automated deployment hooks Azure offers. However, there are a number of small gotcha's related to...
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Configuring Db Connection and Code-First Migration for Identity Accounts in...
The recent release of Visual Studio 2013 and ASP.NET MVC 5 brought significant changes to the Accounts management system (formerly ASP.NET Forms Membership). Also, there have been some minor changes in...
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Extending Identity Accounts and Implementing Role-Based Authentication in...
In a previous post, we took a quick look at extending Identity Accounts in the context of the new Identity system under ASP.NET MVC 5. We also examined the basics of Entity Framework Code-First...
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Send Email to Selected Recipients from your ASP.NET MVC Web Application Part I
I recently had to throw together an application for work allow users to send email to recipients selected from a list. The application in question is used to manage attendees at trainings, and, when...
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Send Email to Selected Recipients from your ASP.NET MVC Web Application Part II
This is the second part of an article demonstrating how to build out an application for sending personalized email to recipients selected from a list. In the first part, we put together the basic...
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