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How to find opportunities when you graduate from college.

How to find opportunities when you graduate from college.

If you are just coming out of college and looking for a position, here are a couple of tips I would recommend for getting the most from your degree.

50 Awesome Christmas Gift Ideas For Your Technology Family

50 Awesome Christmas Gift Ideas For Your Technology Family

'Tis the season to be merry and spread joy (and technology) across the land! Here are 50 Christmas Gift ideas to help you in your holiday shopping.

5 Top Gadgets That Are Essential when Traveling

5 Top Gadgets That Are Essential when Traveling

A week ago, I went to Chicago for a day. Guess what I forgot? Here is the essential list of gadgets that you need when traveling out of town.

ASP.NET MVC HtmlHelpers: Clean up your Views with HtmlHelpers

ASP.NET MVC HtmlHelpers: Clean up your Views with HtmlHelpers

Along with UrlHelpers, HtmlHelpers are useful when you want to introduce an if..then statement in your Views. In this post, we talk about what, when, why, and how to use HtmlHelpers with some additional quick tips.

Review: iHome Bluetooth Keyboard

Review: iHome Bluetooth Keyboard

I've had a lot of Bluetooth keyboards in my day. The iHome Bluetooth Keyboard is small enough, has a great feel to it, and doesn't require batteries.

3 Factors Whether Developers Are In It For The Career or For The Job

3 Factors Whether Developers Are In It For The Career or For The Job

If you are just starting your programming journey, are you hopping on the bandwagon or are you making a career out of it?

5 Steps to Starting your Programming Career (and three ways to become the best)

5 Steps to Starting your Programming Career (and three ways to become the best)

For those who want to become programmers, it's really easy to get started. It's just a matter of how far do you want to take your programming efforts.

Top 10 Programming Books Every .NET Developer Should Own

Top 10 Programming Books Every .NET Developer Should Own

Have you ever had a programming book that you had to keep near you? This list of must-have books are required reading and should always be within your reach.

How to make your own real-time Like Button using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and SignalR

How to make your own real-time Like Button using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and SignalR

SignalR is one of my favorite libraries because of it's ability to use the web in real-time. In this post, we see how to create a real-time like button using SignalR.

ASP.NET MVC: Make Your Application an Onion!

ASP.NET MVC: Make Your Application an Onion!

When building your application from scratch, how do you arrange your libraries in your solution? Today, we'll talk about how to break your project into reusable components to make it extendable for future projects using an onion architecture.