Author Archives: tewari

The Site44 Workflow

A light weight development workflow with real-time website deployment. I recently built a sample website to illustrate how clean, semantic html markup can be maintained when using Bootstrap’s grid system. The solution is to use a css pre-processor to incorporate Bootstrap’s LESS based mixins into your own .less files and push the Bootstrap instructions down [...]
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Understanding and Using System.Transactions

These are some resources to help grasp System.Transactions functionality and use it effectively in your projects: Features Provided by System.Transactions to create transactional applications Implementing an Implicit Transaction using Transaction Scope MSDN Magazine Articles by John Papa: ADO.NET and System.Transactions Revisiting System.Transactions These are specific to TransactionScope (the way to go in most cases): Here [...]
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Protecting Your Api Keys

I am working on a Windows 8 app (details to follow in a subsequent post) and the code is published in a public repo on github. My app uses third-party APIs and after I committed the first cut to github, I realized that I had included my api keys in the code. The whole world [...]
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Favorite Excel Keyboard Shortcuts

I am a big fan of keyboard shortcuts. Here are some of my favorites keyboard shortcuts in Excel.
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