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Ultra-fast ASP.NET: Build Ultra-Fast and Ultra-Scalable Websites Using ASP.NET and SQL Server, a new book published by Apress, is now available for purchase. I've been weighing using either a PHP/Linux solution or a ASP.NET MVC/Mono solution to create a high-performance web site. This should be a popular book.

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I have been using Windows 7 at work and home for about 3 months now. I know many have been using it longer. There is one feature that I have found useful and you might too. If you hold the key when you click on one of the taskbar icons, it will open a new instance of that application rather than expanding or hiding the existing application.It beats having to click the Start button and navigating

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Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has hit the bookshelves already. I bought a copy and have been reading through it. At 539 pages it is a respectable size. I like the fact that it really does approach the topic from a beginner's point-of-view and differently from other books. Code examples in the book are in C#.Amazon.com provides a copy of the table of contents and a sample chapter for viewing. Check it

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It has been a while since I last posted here. I left my job in Orlando and moved to Georgia to be closer to family that needed me. Job market in Florida is so dead that only God can bring it to life. Well, it honestly seems that way. I spent four months this year unemployed and one month working for a company that, frankly, was only worth getting a paycheck from. Ever since I moved here, I have

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I found Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 for $59.99 on Amazon.com. The upgrade version of this software is sold on Adobe.com for $119.99. This is a very good bargain for what you would be getting. I have used this product since version 3 and have never had a need to try anything else. I use it to process all my digital photos and touch-up scans of old family photos that have degraded over time.If you

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I have finished about 1.5 weeks at my new job. I have a much better view of what I can expect short-term. The promise of doing ASP.NET and C# development will not come soon. Right now I am essentially creating and maintaining meta data for transforming data feeds from medical labs to hundreds of medical companies and their own data formats. This is requiring me to become an expert at HL7 and

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I received word this morning that I got the job I interviewed for last Friday. Praise God. It does not pay nearly as much as my last one but it is still respectable and will hopefully transition me over to developing ASP.NET web applications using C#. My first day will be later this week. I'm excited. It will be very nice to get busy earning a paycheck after being unemployed for four months.

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Apparently the number of new claims for unemployment benefits increased last week but the number on continuing claims dropped sharply. Personally, I hope the economy really is bottoming out and will improve steadily in the near future. I hate collecting unemployment benefits but it is better than nothing. Transitioning to new IT skill sets right now is still very challenging. If you are a Java or

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If you are going through hell, keep going.--Winston ChurchillSource: ThinkExist.com

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I had already worked out with Sallie Mae to get an unemployment deferment on my student loan. Turns out that part of my student loan is managed by Bank of America and I had to apply to them for another deferment on the student loan I have with them. I got that done so I just need to verify over the next week that the paperwork I faxed them has been processed. When you are living off of

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A friend of mine in a city nearby added me as a connection on LinkedIn and we struck up an e-mail conversation. He is a recruiter and owns his own placement company. He happened to have a job order that matches my skills and interests nicely and we talked about it. He forwarded my contact information to the recruiter working directly with the client and I should hopefully be hearing something

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I spent time today cleaning up my apartment. I boxed up some of the remaining books and DVDs that I would take with me if and when I moved and boxed them up. I emptied my local storage unit so that I can end my lease. There wasn't much need for me to keep it any longer and it will save me $89/month.All this underscored for me that I love books entirely too much. I would say that of what I have in

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Still searching for work. The temptation to feel like I am always the bridesmate and never the bride has been lurking out there but you have to focus on the positive and keep busy moving forward as best you can. Good news is that the economy does appear to be stabilizing. In the meantime, I am improving my C# and ASP.NET MVC skills.

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I am still learning how to best display advertising on a blog. It shouldn't be rocket science but none of the options displayed on the Adsense wizard on Blogger struck me as visually pleasing or effective. I do like how I have it placed on this blog now. One row of links at the very top and a vertical rectangle of links on the upper right. I do not like having advertising, in any form, embedded

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I have been seeing that even though hiring managers in the IT field say they will consider non-local candidates, they are much more likely to choose a local candidate over a non-local candidate who may have better skills and experience. It is discouraging but you have to focus on the positive and keep improving your presentation skills. Even though you may need the income, do you really want to

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I watched part of The History Channel's documentary titled The Art of War. It talked about how Sun Tzu's popular book has been applied successfully throughout history and how it can predict failure because its principles are ignored. It was a really interested show. I tried to jot down the summary of his principles that they gave but I think I will need to pick-up another copy of the book. The

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Today was a slow day. I should love slow days but I don't. I guess I prefer interesting days. I'm weird I guess. Watched Superman Returns this evening. (DVD, Blu-ray) I think I prefer Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor but Kevin Spacey still gives a riveting performance. There is one scene where Clark is being welcomed back to the office after he returned to Earth. He is presented with a cake with his

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Slowly making my way through reading Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0. It is an interesting subject but it can put a person to sleep. I am more interested right now in how ASP.NET MVC can be used at an enterprise level. Eventually, when the time is right, I will put together my own web site using it.If my schedule will permit it, I may drive over to Tampa, FL to attend the May 14th meeting of the

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You can teach an old dog a new trick but you will have to convince the dog it is a trick worth the effort to learn.

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Federal Resume Guidebook: Strategies for Writing a Winning Federal Electronic Resume, KSAs, and Essays, 4th Editionby Kathryn K. TroutmanExcellent federal resume how-to book written by an expert and author. Writing a federal resume is more work than creating a resume for the private sector. This book is an excellent resource and how-to guide for creating a federal resume and other documents such

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Federal Web Portal Moves to Cloud Computing PlatformBy Steve Towns, Government Technology MagazineSynopsis:U.S. federal government portal, USA.gov, being moved to a cloud computing platform Friday May 1, 2009The portal's infrastructure costs are expected to be reduced by 90%Move also expected to improve capabilities and provide better flexibilityWill run on Terremark Worldwide's Enterprise Cloud

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Computerworld.com published a story today written by Sharon Gaudin on its web site titled Twitter quitters are fleeing the site in droves. The story says that a Nielsen Co. report recently released puts Twitter's user retention rate at roughly 40% and that before Oprah Winfrey got onto the bandwagon recently, the retention rate was about 30%.These terrible statistics, in my opinion, shows that

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Wrox has just published their new book titled Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0. It is written by Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, and Scott Guthrie. Scott Hanselman recently put a free copy of the chapter he wrote online and was an excellent read. This is one of two books on this subject that I know is currently available for purchase on this topic. No books on this topic have reached

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Apress has just published a new book by Steven Sanderson titled Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework. It is now available for sale. Given how new ASP.NET MVC is, there are very few professionally written books available on this subject. Apress has a reputation for producing create titles that are very useful for programmers. I have quite a few of them myself in addition to this one. This book will take you

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4 Ways to Expand Your ConfidenceBy Romanus Wolter, Entrepreneur MagazineSource: http://bit.ly/15Shke

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Start a Blog For Your BusinessBy Mikal E. Belicove, Entrepreneur MagazineSource: http://bit.ly/drt3C

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Fast-Track Your Website PlansBy Jason R. Rich, Entrepreneur MagazineSource: http://bit.ly/d56pK

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Finding, getting, and keeping a job is highly dependent on our ability to communicate, establish a connection, and sell our ideas and abilities to someone else. We are never good enough at doing this and it is as important as ever than we continually improve.Finding a new job today requires person-to-person networking in order to just get noticed. Submitting your resume to a company or on job

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One of the problems with burning the candle from both ends is that you always end up with less time to work with.

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I found an interesting web site catering to small businesses: SmallBizTrends.comAt the bottom of the site's home page, there are links to it's presense on the following social networking web sites: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and SlideShare. The site also has The Ultimate Small Business Twitter List that points to the Twitter micro-blogs for various well-known companies.

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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.-- Martin LutherSource: QuotationsBook.com

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This will sound stupid coming from a guy but I have always viewed friendship as being similar to the layers of an onion.Everyone nearby us can see the outer layer, which lies exposed to the public. This requires little to no personal cost beyond coming in close proximity to us in some manner.In order to get closer requires going through each outer layer to reach the layer below it. In this manner

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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.-- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSource: QuoteWorld.org

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You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.-- Zig ZiglarSource: ThinkExist.com

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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.-- Zig ZiglarSource: ThinkExist.com

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The way you see people is the way you treat them.-- Zig ZiglarSource: ThinkExist.com

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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.-- Zig ZiglarSource: ThinkExist.com

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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.-- Zig ZiglarSource: ThinkExist.com

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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.-- Zig ZiglarSource: ThinkExist.com

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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. -- Zig ZiglarSource: ThinkExist.com

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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons. -- Zig ZiglarSource: ThinkExist.com

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You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. -- Zig ZiglarSource: ThinkExist.com

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Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. -- Alexander PopeSource: QuotationsBook.com

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The only way around is through.-- Robert FrostSource: QuotationsBook.com

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"Effective April 10, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has raised the Regulatory Transaction fee (Section 31 fee) from $0.00056 per $100 of sales proceeds to $0.00257 per $100. You can read the press release from the SEC at http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2009/2009-56.htm."Source: Scottrade.com and SEC Press Release

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You can observe a lot just by watching but you won't master it unless you do it.

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Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. -- W.J. CameronSource: QuotationsBook.com

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There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.-- Charles KingsleySource: QuoteGarden.com

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65 Indispensable Websites for Business Owners: article.Source: Entrepreneur.com

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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.-- Lana TurnerSources: AllGreatQuotes.com

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Went to see a movie this evening. I didn't like the movie but I noticed that kids will find a way to go to the theater with their friends and girlfriends. I suspect that in many areas theaters may be seeing less of a pullback in consumer spending that retail stores are. Just a hunch. I have been seeing a lot of stores in malls close but I have yet to see a movie theater close.Theaters in

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You may run, and you may try to hide, but you will always be found.

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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.-- Ted W. EngstromSource: QuotationsBook.com

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.-- Thomas Edison Source: QuoteDB.com

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I received word today that the contract that I had accepted six weeks ago has been mothballed. The client, located in Virginia, has been working hard with their client in Oregon to get a VPN connection up and working. They have not been able to establish a high performance connection for the massive data conversion work that they needed me to do. This project would have involved using VB.NET,

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You can manage your time all you want but if you don't get done what needs to be done on-time then it won't matter.

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Wells Fargo, a leading U.S. bank, pre-announced that they will report a record profit when they officially report their first quarter results. According to the news report Wells Fargo sees record first-quarter profit on MarketWatch.com, this surge in revenue reached $3 billion. About five weeks ago, Citigroup and Bank of America both reported that they had made a profit during the first half of

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ComputerWorld.com published an interesting article on it's web site yesterday by Patrick Thibodeau titled As unemployment rises, traffic surges on federal jobs site. USAJobs.gov, one of the big Federal job search sites, saw a 45% increase in traffic over the last six months.Right now, people who are unemployed are having difficulty finding suitable work and those with jobs are concerned that they

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Last January, at my last contract job, I was unable to create a PowerBuilder application communicate successfully with a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web service. I had no problem getting PowerBuilder (versions 10.5 and 11.2) to work with the older style of XML web service.The process was fairly simple and straightforward. You can find detailed instructions for doing this on Sybase's

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It has been nearly two weeks since the 2009 Orlando .NET Code Camp was held on March 28th. 422 people attended the full day of free training at the Seminole Community College in Sanford, FL. There were eleven tracks of training provided covering topics like ASP.NET, MVC, DotNetNuke, SharePoint, Silverlight, etc.The demo code and presentation files are now available for download.Jessica Sterner,

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The Yes Man movie became available for sale today. When I went to go see this movie in the theater, I had very low expectations. I found it funny and uplifting to watch. I definitely had what I consider the perfect ending.Jim Carrey plays Carl Allen, who is struggling to get over a painful divorce. He ends up going to a motivational conference with a crazy friend and gets pulled into it's

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