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Purchasing Business Cards

If you are planning on going to any professional networking events, user groups, or speaking at events, you should have business cards with you. Many times people think, I only need to have business cards if I am looking for a job. This is far from the truth. You should have business cards so that you can connect with the people that you have met. People tend to meet lots of people at events and without a business card, it is difficult for people to remember who you are. It is also a good way for people to be able to follow up with you.

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Automatically Add JS/CSS Files to Your Ionic Projects

As you work on an Ionic based project or for that matter any web projects that have javascript or css file, you will at some point forget to add your new javascript or css file to the page and wonder why the page is broken. This is really annoying when it happens as many times you spend quite a bit of time troubleshooting before you realize that you just forgot to add the script or css tag. You can fix this problem using gulp and the gulp inject module to automatically add the script and css tags onto the page.

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Jekyll Part 08: Using a Custom Domain

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial we are going to setup a custom domain for your blog.

Overview

Part of having a blog is making it your own and giving it personality. One of the easiest ways to do this is to use a custom domain name that fits the blog. So far we have been using http://[username].github.io to get to your blog, but now we will go through the process of setting up a custom domain name like http://digitaldrummerj.me. At first it might seem like this is going to be complicated but it is actually very easy to set this up.

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Jekyll Part 07: Adding a custom Google search

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial we are going to add the ability to search your blog using google.

Overview

As your blog grows, you want to make it easy for your readers to find the content that they need on your blog. Out of the box, Jekyll does not have any type of search engine built-in. Thankfully, with Google you can easily tell Google to index your blog and then add a search box on the blog.

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Jekyll Part 06: Adding Post by Date Page

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial we will go through creating a page to show blog post by date.

Overview

A typical blog has a way for your readers to view posts by either category or date, so that they can look at your archives without having to go through the blog post one by one and page by page. In the last lesson, we added the post by category page. In this lesson we will add the post by date page.

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Jekyll Part 05: Adding Category Page

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial we will go through creating a page to show blog post by category.

Overview

A typical blog has a way for your readers to view posts by either category or date, so that they can look at your archives without having to go through the blog post one by one. Unfortunately, the Jekyll-Now repository that we cloned your blog from, does not have these pages. Luckily, these pages are really easy to create.

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Jekyll Part 04: Adding Additional Pages

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial we will go through how to add an additional page such as the speaking page on this blog.

Overview

As your blog grows you are going to want to add additional information besides just blog post. If you start speaking at events or want to show off your portfolio or blog post by category/date, you are going to want these as separate pages. These pages most likely will have there own look and feel as well.

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Jekyll Part 03: Adding Commenting to Post

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial you will learn how to add the ability for users to comment on your blog post.

Overview

You may be thinking that commenting isn’t really that important but it is a key feature for you to be able to interact with your readers. Users want to have conversations about your blog post with you and to feel connected to you. It is also a good way for you to learn from them as well.

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Jekyll Part 02: Your First Post

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial we will go through making your first blog post.

Overview

We will go through all of the steps to create a new post, add metadata such as title/categories/tags/date, and then make it live on the site.

Section 1: Creating the file

Thr first step is to create a new file to hold the content of the blog post. In Jekyll all of the blog post are markdown files and are stored in the _post directory. When you commit this file to Github, it will be compiled into a static html page.

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IIS Express - Turning on Windows Authentication

So I brought up a new machine and tried to run my ASP.NET web site in IIS Express that uses Windows Authentication and was greeted with the following error:

Error

The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

Details:

This configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. Locking is either by default (overrideModeDefault=“Deny”), or set explicitly by a location tag with overrideMode=“Deny” or the legacy allowOverride=“false”.

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