Apple TV vs Google TV (Sony Internet TV)

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Dec 282010
 

While some are quick to try and compare these two devices head to head there are a lot of basic differences between their core uses that needs to be taken into account before making a decision. Depending on what you want to do one may be a better option than the other. The first major difference between the two devices is how they plug into your TV.  Apple TV connects in to it’s own port separate from that of your cable / satellite box.  Where as Google TV is meant to be either built into your TV or a set top box that sits between your cable / satellite box and your TV. There are negatives and positives to both approaches, for one in order [Read More...]

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What you should know about Firesheep to avoid getitng Hijacked

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Oct 262010
 

Over the weekend a new FireFox plug-in appeared. The functionality behind this plug-in is not new, what is new is the ease of use and how easily accessible it is not for anyone to be malicious. Because of this it’s important to know what it does and how to protect yourself from being a victim of it’s misuse. Before I go into explaining what this plug-in does it’s important to know a few important things about how websites work. The web is a stateless environment, meaning that there is no persistent connections between a user machine (You) and the web server (Facebook, Twitter, etc). To keep track of who you are the web servers create sessions in their environment and then assign users unique identifiers [Read More...]

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xClassNotDerivedFromElement Error in Silverlight

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Sep 092010
 

The other day while working on a Silverlight application I received the following error: “Parser internal error: Object writer ‘xClassNotDerivedFromElement’. [Line: N Position: N] at System.Windows.Application.LoadComponent(Object component, Uri resourceLocator)” When calling the InitializeComponent() internal method on a custom user control. So I did what I did best and searched Google for the answer, and while I didn’t end up finding my solution there I did find more about what can cause this error to occur. The fully qualified name in the x:Class element has to inherit from the same underlying class that your base xaml element is. So if your class inherits from the UserControl class then your base element in your xaml needs to be . So for instance if you change your class [Read More...]

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Converting a Linq Object to a Similar Object

 Linq  4 Responses »
Aug 192010
 

Recently, I was working on a project when I came into a problem that I hadn’t dealt with before.  You see I was working with a rather large table (200+ fields) and a corresponding archive table for it.  The goal was to be able to populate a form with fields from either of the object types as essentially they were the same record type. We were using LINQ to SQL objects and when I wrote the method that populates the form I had it taking in the base object.  Well then I was given instruction to be able to load the archive records into the form as well and I had to decide the best approach. The simplest solution was to write a copy of [Read More...]

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Making the Most of Facebook’s Privacy Settings

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May 142010
 

Chances are you have a Facebook page, or if not you have probably thought about creating one. Privacy is a big concern now online, that’s why i’m sure you’ve seen those new public service commercials that show a young teenage girl either walking around telling a bunch of strangers random information about herself or having random people come up saying personal things about her to her. Privacy isn’t just a concern for teenage girls, it is one that should only be shared by everyone who does anything on the internet. I’m not saying don’t share any personal information on the internet because frankly that’s what these sites were designed for. I’m saying be selective with who you share your information with. Not everyone i’m friends [Read More...]

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