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John B
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About

I'm a Web Developer working... um... here! YES, STACK OVERFLOW!!! I've been on the Ads Dev Team for about a year, and was on the Internal Dev Team for a few years before that. I specialize in C# and JavaScript but I dabble in many other languages.

Check out my blog: Johnny Code

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Is it possible to decrypt MD5 hashes?
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How can I use Server.MapPath() from global.asax?
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Do I have to Close() a SQLConnection before it gets disposed?
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What's the difference between the WebConfigurationManager and the ConfigurationManager?
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Can I set up HTML/Email Templates with ASP.NET?
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When should I call SaveChanges() when creating 1000's of Entity Framework objects? (like during an import) [duplicate]
Dec 18, 2009
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Get controller and action name from within controller?
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What does a TortoiseSVN cleanup actually do?
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Which Windows SVN server should I use? [closed]
May 18, 2009
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Visual Studio Command Prompt vs. a regular command prompt?
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Isn't that too many ads? 1 question only on a page and 4 ads in place of the others
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AD tag is appearing on page header and obscuring reputation
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Does Stack Overflow use Google Adsense again?

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Symmetrical encryption in C#
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