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A new Open Source dynamic Sitemap and dynamic RSS Feed Solution..
I've started a new open source project designed to help .Net Web Developers easily add a dynamic sitemap or RSS feed to their web application. My next blog post will explain why you would want to use...
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SEO - Sitemaps and RSS Feeds for Google to find
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a very broad topic nowadays. There are many, many things a web developer must remember to do in order to optimize a site. If anyone is looking for a quick refresher...
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Amazon Appstore & Angry Birds
Recently, Engadget posted an article on Angry Birds will be exclusive on Android - breaking the news Amazon released on their blog that Angry Birds will have a new game which will launch exclusively on...
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Uniquely Identifying Web Users
In most web applications, you need to identify users at some point. You may need an entire login system, or you may just want to make sure no one abuses your system.For example, a Joke Sharing site...
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Introduction to Facebook Sharing and the Open Graph Protocol
Whenever someone shares a link on Facebook, they normally see a picture, a title, and a description of the link.How does Facebook get this information?Well, if you don't use the Open Graph Protocol,...
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Amazon Appstore Launch Imminent
According to a trusted source in a wired article the Amazon Appstore may launch as soon as tomorrow!Also, an Android fan caught a glimpse of a page on Amazon that went live prematurely - and revealed a...
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Amazon's App Store
I am impressed with Amazon's App Store so far. I had a terrible description for my mobile application, Simple Charades, but whoever reviewed my application submission also wrote a nice description and...
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Canonical Web Pages - Web Pages With Highly Similar Content
It's common for certain types of sites to have pages with similar content. A canonical page is the preferred page of the pages with highly similar content.For example, you could have Beatles albums...
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Blogger SEO Optimization - Add NoFollow to Blog Archive
If you own a Blogger blog, listen up!A Blog Archive is a common Blogger Widget that displays a bunch of your previous posts on the right side of the screen. The problem with this is that it is very...
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Parsing a XML Datetime in Android (Java)
The Java Date class is a complete mystery to me. Why does it have to be so complicated? I needed to parse an XML DateTime string (like this: "2011-02-10T13:40:26.33") in Java.In C#, it just...
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Starting a New Android Project - A List of Tutorials
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” - Mark...
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Blogger Releases New HTML 5, CSS3 Templates
Blogger is previewing new dynamic templates that load faster, look prettier, and use fancy new tech.You can use these new preview templates on any Blogger blog - which they are called 'views' for now....
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Facebook Sharing Tool for Web Developers
Already know about the Open Graph Protocol? Go to the Open Graph Protocol Generator ToolMarketing your site can be difficult and time consuming. There are hundreds of methods you can utilize. Search...
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WCF Service Error - C# Developers Only Tip
This won't make sense for most people that read this blog, but it needs to be said regardless. If I can save one person the hours I went through trying to debug this problem, it will be worth...
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Android - Creating an Index or Primary Key in SQLite
If this is your first time working in a database, you should read this entire post before using these queries. For those of you who know all about Primary Keys and Indexes, here are the queries:...
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Android - Creating a Top or Bottom Bar in XML Layout
This is intended for new Android developers.If you're looking to align elements to the top or bottom of your layout, look no further!I have bolded the important parts below.Basically, this layout...
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Android - Threading with AsyncTask to prevent UI Lockup
When you need to either do a lot of processing, access the SQLite database, or communicate with the internet you should run it in another thread. Otherwise, the Android user interface will appear...
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Android - Sharing text to Facebook, Twitter, and other Apps
Sharing on Android is extremely easy.If you've ever hit a share button on the Android before, you'll notice most of them pop up a menu like this:As you can see, this has the standard Google Apps as...
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Web - 404 HTML Pages and SEO
Google's Webmaster blog had a great web developer article today about 404 Pages and how to optimize them for Google.I was making a mistake - I had a custom 404 page, but I was blocking the page in...
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SQL Tip - Using Regular Expressions to compare varchars
Even after many years of SQL development, I still can be surprised sometimes!Note: the following article is using MS SQL 2008. I have not checked this in SQLite, MySQL, or any other MS SQL...
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