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County route 517 leaves Hackettstown, NJ as High Street, heading north. Not far past the huge Mars candy plant on the outskirts of town the road lifts itself up and over the shoulder of Allamuchy Mt., and then it is just 517, the road to Andover and Sparta. As you drive northward past the little crossroads [...]

Consider the following scenario: a rich client communicates over the Internet with an ASP.NET service that does not use forms authentication, and also sends requests to a content site that does use forms auth. Initial user authentication is performed by the client and service using a proprietary protocol. The service then creates an authentication ticket for the [...]

I struck out three times at the library this week. One was a Ben Bova novel about two brothers on opposite sides of the stem cell/cloning/immortality issue. It started pretty well, but then kept switching between first person protagonists in the first three chapters. I like the first person perspective, but I guess I don’t [...]