I’m a bit late posting this, but I wanted to make my slides from my Chicago Cloud Computing meetup in April available for anyone interested.
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I’m Just George – (Eventually) Living in a Decentralized Identity World
In June 2025 I presented a talk at Identiverse 2025 about decentralized identity called I’m Just George – Living in a Decentralized Identity World. Today I presented a slightly updated version of this talk to an internal audience at McDonald’s as part of our Tech Talks series. The title and pop culture references were inspired…
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Awesome Easy Instant Pot Beef Stew
This Easy Flavorful Instant Pot Beef Stew is a comforting classic made simple. Tender chunks of beef simmered in a rich, savory broth with hearty potatoes, sweet carrots, and aromatic herbs—all pressure-cooked to perfection in a fraction of the time. Finished with a sprinkle of fresh parsley for a burst of color and freshness, this…
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I’m Just George – My Talk from Identiverse 2025
For anyone who didn’t get the opportunity to attend my talk at Identiverse 2025 (or for those who want to listen again!), I’ve synced the audio up with my slides and posted it on my YouTube channel. Please feel free to watch and share with anyone else who might be interested in my review of…
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George’s Homestyle Chili
Ingredients: 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 lbs ground beef1 40-ounce can of Brooks Mild Chili Beans1 15.5-ounce can of Brooks Hot Chili Beans1 15-ounce can of tomato sauce2 10-ounce cans of RO-TEL Mild (drained)1 10-ounce can of RO-TEL Original (drained)1 tbsp seasoned salt1 tbsp chili powder (to taste)1/4 tsp of cayenne pepper (to taste)1/4 cup…
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Passing a domain hint to Azure AD using ASP.NET Core 3.1 with Microsoft.Identity.Web
When building a single tenant app utilizing Azure AD for authentication, you may want to pass Azure AD a domain hint, especially in scenarios when Azure AD is federated with ADFS. This will tell Azure AD not to prompt the user for their UPN and will immediately redirect to your ADFS instance. To accomplish this…
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Touch scrolling broken in Windows 10 Build 14942
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Crock Pot Beef Stew
Ingredients: 2 1/2 lbs stew meat, cut into 1 inch pieces 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/3 cup olive oil 1 large white onion, diced 1 6 oz can of tomato paste 1 1/2 cups red cooking wine 1 pound potatoes, cut into 1-2 inch pieces (I used fingerling potatoes) 2 cups baby carrots, cut in…
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WinRT WebView with Custom User-Agent
Saw a conversation on Twitter about this and thought I’d post a quick snippet. If you want to open a website in a WebView control with a fake User Agent, here’s the code to do so:
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Introduction to Responsive Design with Bootstrap and ASP.NET MVC5
The following is a presentation that I gave December 3rd for the Schaumburg Microsoft .NET Technologies meetup:
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Projecting your Windows Phone screen to a PC
Cliff Simpkins, Product Manager for Windows and Windows Phone Developer Experience at Microsoft, wrote a blog post today on how to use their Project My Screen App to project your Windows Phone screen to a PC. This is great if you’re giving presentations or demonstrations as well as for capturing screenshots and video of your…
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