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Jason Young
Developer & Technologist
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About
Speaking
Podcast
2017
Nov 18
Moving My Static Blog to Docker
Oct 1
Setting up PoE Cameras & Blue Iris
Sep 21
Posting Binary from a Video Frame Grab Using Canvas
2016
Oct 12
Transport Agnostic Cloud to Device Messaging with IoT Hub
Jun 7
Top 3 Considerations when Choosing an IoT Platform Provider
Apr 22
Apple is a Microsoft OEM
Apr 4
Build 2016 Recap
Jan 4
MS Dev Show Hardware Update
2015
Nov 5
Moving My PC Into the Basement
Sep 20
Azure in Plain English
May 4
Ignite 2015 Mega Post
May 1
Build 2015 Mega Post
Mar 9
Designing for Testability
Feb 3
Sending Real-Time Sensor Data to Clients Using SignalR
Jan 16
How We Produce the MS Dev Show Podcast
Jan 13
IoT Data in Manufacturing - My Thoughts
2014
Dec 11
Sending RSS Articles to your Kindle Automatically
Dec 11
My productivity system
Dec 11
Creating a Hackfest Culture
Nov 6
Using Unlimited OneDrive Space for Backups
Oct 23
Do It in Public
Jul 11
Storing Time Series Data in Azure
Jul 11
Creating a Hackfest Culture
Jun 24
7 Things the Surface Pro 3 Can Do Better than Your Laptop
Jun 18
What is the Internet of Things?
Jun 3
1 Year at Microsoft - A Retrospective
May 22
Dead Simple Real-Time Logging for Cloud Applications
May 12
TechEd 2014 Ultimate Recap - with Links!
Apr 11
//Build 2014 Ultimate Recap - with Links!
Mar 4
Adding Authentication to your Windows Store Application & API
Feb 6
Introducing the Modern Manufacturing Framework
Jan 21
7 Lessons from Running a Hackathon
2013
Dec 26
Convention-Based Configuration File Loading
Dec 24
Displaying Content from a Surface to an XBox One Using "Play To"
Nov 26
Blogging Awesomeness with a Static Generator and Markdown
Nov 18
Creating a Windows 8 Website Wrapper
Oct 31
Patterns for Pushing Data to the Cloud
Aug 20
The Sad State of Mobile Password Security
Aug 6
Dead Simple Web Deployment Process
Jul 19
Virtual Machines (IaaS) in the Azure Cloud–Outline
Jun 23
Setting up a DNS Server in Azure IaaS/VMs
Apr 12
Upgrading CRM 4 Attachments to 2011 Using a Linked Server
Apr 7
Converting Subversion to Mercurial/Git
Mar 18
The Pomodoro Technique & Scrum/Agile
Mar 14
My Ivy Bridge i7 PC Build
2010
Oct 28
Why I Would no Longer Choose Silverlight
2009
Nov 6
Introduction to Distributed Source Control
Oct 26
Speeding up data access by using Linq to SQL or EF
Sep 30
LINQ to SQL & Entity Framework Pitfalls
Sep 17
Understanding LINQ and LINQ to SQL (and EF)
Aug 18
Determine if a point is contained within a polygon
Jun 23
Delayed execution vs ToList() in LINQ Database Queries
Jun 2
Common Pitfalls when working with DateTime’s
May 18
Tip for Technical Presentations – Detailed Notes
Apr 30
Practical .NET Unit Testing – Free paper released
Apr 28
Speaking at Day of .NET at Fox Valley Tech
Apr 17
int inherits from object? An investigation into how.
Apr 9
Unit Testing a LINQ to SQL or EF Query
Apr 6
Maintaining Consistent Line Lengths
Mar 26
Ode to the iPhone & iPod Touch
Mar 3
Slick inline trace logging in ASP.NET
Feb 19
Azure – Performance, IoC, and Instances
Feb 13
Convenient Synchronization with Mesh and DropBox
Feb 11
Value type comparison pitfall with == vs Equals
Feb 10
Is Quality Important?
Feb 3
Using C# Yield for Readability and Performance
Jan 31
Tip for success – Track your accomplishments
Jan 29
Vista x64 Frequent Stuttering – Dell M6400
Jan 26
Extension Methods & Single Responsibility Principle
Jan 9
Entity framework designer "entityset" naming bug
Jan 5
Don't lose your code - 3 methods that can help
Jan 2
Generic Method Overloading Selection Pitfall
2008
Dec 26
Advantages of a 3rd party diff/compare tool
Dec 23
ClearType in Remote Desktop with XP
Dec 14
Laptop Hard drive, 5400 or 7200RPM for dev?
Nov 18
.NET Development Perf Testing in a Cloud VM (EC2)
Nov 11
Cloud Computing (and Azure) - Right for your site?
Nov 6
RIP RankTrend.com - Lessons Learned
Nov 5
RIP NaturalLinkExchange.com - Lessons Learned
Oct 31
Secure XAMPP by only allowing local access
Oct 20
ASP.NET MVC Pro's and Con's
Oct 14
Detecting mobile device user agents in ASP.NET
Oct 13
Response.Redirect and Output Caching Trouble
Oct 7
Removing duplicate page addresses in MVC
Oct 1
ASP.NET MVC, What about SEO?
Sep 25
Vista actually is pretty good, honest
Sep 22
Screencast - Unit testing with real DataSets
Sep 16
Important questions for your prospective employer
Sep 12
What do you do with your old hardware?
Sep 10
Are third party dependencies evil?
Sep 3
Disabling WPF DataGrid Virtualization
Aug 27
New Version of SimpleTracking.com
Aug 11
Design your classes for their consumer
Jul 30
ASP.NET Changing Session ID's for each request
Jul 24
How to get the best customer service for free
Jul 22
Programming for someone with blinders
Jul 10
Locking sessions for multi-threaded access
Jul 8
Using objects or repository interface in constructor
Jul 3
What every manager needs to ask and know
Jul 2
New Backup Solution - JungleDisk + Amazon S3
Jul 1
Google officially indexing flash sites - good news?
Jun 26
Consolidating - Subversion virtual machine moved
Jun 25
Using "var" to simplify code and avoid redundancy
Jun 24
Using an army and luck to reach critical mass
Jun 23
DreamHost disallows use as a backup service
Jun 20
Agile patterns & practices and the developer divide
Jun 17
An intro to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Jun 13
A Dependency Injection example with Spring.NET
Jun 12
Unit tests are for functionality, not code!
Jun 10
What a developer needs from their manager
Jun 6
I finally get the point of inversion of control
Jun 5
Customers trust you, even if you don't deserve it
Jun 4
Improve your software by creating an API
Jun 2
Managing the number of output assemblies
Jun 1
The winner of the free software is....
May 29
Who is YOUR customer? It may not be who you think
May 27
Stored procedure reporting & scalability
May 23
Software is hard!
May 21
Code Snippets in Windows Live Writer
May 20
Free Software! - Visual Studio 2008, Windows 2008 Enterprise and Windows Vista Ultimate
May 19
SQL Server NULL values and "Order By" order
May 16
Writing code that you're proud of
May 16
Object does not match target type in GridView
May 15
Push Email on the Windows Mobile Platform
May 14
Don't play the "What If" game
May 13
UPS Says "No"
May 13
When should you use database constraints?
May 12
Windows 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event
May 9
Set up a Windows SSH tunnel in 10 minutes or less
May 8
Focus is the key to success
May 7
Do you really need a data access layer with LINQ?
May 6
Filtering the noise from above into a working plan
May 5
Speeding up your ASP.NET Application
May 5
Quick and dirty reporting with the Google Chart API
May 2
Disable auto id's when copying ASP.NET controls
May 1
Creating user friendly strings for enum values
Apr 30
Why I'm a better software developer than you
Apr 30
Subtext blog platform feature requests
Apr 28
LINQ, I'm not ready for you just yet
Apr 27
.NET XML DataSet Generator from a SQL Query
Apr 26
IIS 6 and Apache on the same server and port
Apr 26
Converted my blog from Blogger to Wordpress
Apr 24
Serving your ASP.NET .aspx pages with .html
Apr 24
Adding social tech site buttons to Blogger
Apr 24
Working with content areas in code behind
Apr 23
Using iStockPhoto to make your website awesome
Apr 23
Disable constraints in "After Insert" trigger
Apr 22
Intel Core 2 Quad Price Cuts
Apr 22
LEAN software vs planning everything with a spec
Apr 22
Take a screenshot in Flex and send it to ASP.NET
Apr 21
Optimizing new Blogger title tags for SEO
Apr 18
Avoiding duplicate content with your site or blog
Apr 18
RE: Switching from Linux to Windows 2008
Apr 17
Can LEAN be applied to software?
Apr 16
Using the Luhn algorithm to validate credit cards
Apr 16
What it would take for me to switch to a Macintosh
Apr 15
I switched from Linux to Windows Server 2008
Apr 15
Reading an octet stream post in ASP.NET
Apr 14
ASP.NET output caching by user agent
Apr 14
Ask me questions, I might just answer!
Apr 11
DataSet XML serializer utility for unit testing
Apr 10
10 things to look for when searching for .NET controls
Apr 9
DotNetKicks Blogger integration that actually works!
Apr 8
Deadlines are bad, goals are good
Apr 7
ASP.NET LinkButton and SEO
Apr 6
Ext2IFS Can't read a drive from a RAID array
Apr 4
Where are my robots, and why won't my computer listen to me?
Apr 4
Removing rules="all" from the rendered table from a GridView
Apr 3
SimpleTracking.com UPS Update
Apr 3
Call, email, or face to face? Which is better?
Apr 1
How does your boss know you're doing a great job?
Mar 31
Uninitialized variables in Adobe Flex "for" loops
Mar 30
How many hours per week should you work?
Mar 29
Should you host your own blog, or use a blog host?
Mar 28
Disabling GridView Validation