It's about time to move my blog to my own domain. Between my blogs at msmvps.com and msdn.com , having it on my own domain will provide a more long-term home at http://noahcoad.com . For those subscribed to the RSS feed, you'll be updated automatically. See ya over there! Blog Moved to: http://noahcoad.com

I think it's a good time to move my blog to a permanent new home on an web address that's easy to remember, share, and under my supervision. Big thanks to Susan w msmvps.com and msdn.com for hosting me all these years, but I'm ready to move on. So your input would be appreciate in this super short little survey, thanks. (if the survey isn't showing up above (it's embedded w jscript) then use this direct link, http://surveymonkey.com/s/FLZRM2T )

One of the big internet media companies (Gawker Media) had a their user database of usernames and passwords leaked this weekend, including one of my favorite sites http://lifehacker.com .  I hope none of my dear readers usernames or passwords were leaked (like mine was), but it goes as a lesson that this could happen to anyone.  The lesson to be learned is: don't use the same password on multiple sites and when creating a password, use a strong password, containing letters, numbers

Here are some ways students (college, high school, etc) can get Microsoft Office or similar apps for a deep discount.  My sister is a student and was asking how she could get discounts on Microsoft Word so here’s a quick guide. Office Professional Academic At the time I’m writing this Microsoft is offering Office 2010 Professional for $80 to students (college, high school, etc).  This is the same thing as the Pro version, but licensed only to students for academic (as opposed to commercial

My wallet is small.  Friends’ wallets are getting smaller.  Years back I was using an wallet insert (pictured here); and now you can get thin wallets like this by themselves.  Wallets are shrinking themselves into oblivion. Today my wallet contains just these three things: Driver’s License Payment Card (VISA Check/Debit/ATM) My company’s product, a LifeNexus Personal Health Card My company’s goal is to be able to combine payment cards with our Personal Health Card (PHC), so that’ll

I've been using http://discountasp.net for the last five years for hosting my website, http://coad.net , and it has been as smooth, easy, and elegant as one could hope for.  The company is as good as it gets in my opinion when it comes to service, value, and their offerings.  In full disclosure, they have provided some of my hosting for free for the last few years due to community participation.  They have a real interest in supporting the ASP.NET community.  The reason I'm

Here's an old article I put together while in college that was worth reviving… An Analysis of π in the Bible Overview Mathematics is the one truly universal language as it spans time and space. We find in the Hebrew Bible that there is a mathematical anomaly involving PI that is remarkably simple and accurate. At 1 Kings 7:23 there is a unique spelling of an otherwise common word. It is the word circumference, translated "line", and is usually spelled with two Hebrew letters

Death to the email "Reply" button!!  Long live "Reply All"!! One of the more frustrating behaviors I find in the online world is when people click "Reply" to an email instead of "Reply to All" (or whatever is similar on their email app).  Why clicking "Reply" is a bad habit is that usually other email addresses on the email that need to be kept in the loop are dropped. When I joined Microsoft I was in such a bad habit of clicking the Reply

Ever have a problem where controls disappear from the Toolbox?  For example, I just installed a 3rd party WPF control set, used the controls, closed VS, reopened VS, and they were gone from the Toolbox. How the Toolbox Works At first initialization Visual Studio queries each package installed to see if it provides toolbox controls.  If it does, VS asks for a set of metadata on each control and caches this data.  Then on subsequent loads it uses the cached data (also checks for new

Dropbox is a file sync app that installs a lightweight client on your PC, monitors a "My Dropbox" folder on your drive, and automatically syncs files in that folder online and to any other computer you have Dropbox installed on.  It also makes sharing files with family, friends, co-workers, projects, etc super easy. There are plenty of other similar file sync apps, ones I've tried are Microsoft Live Mesh , ZumoDrive , and some of these others .  I've found all these either