Ran into this problem where IIS intercepts and overrides my error responses.

Quoted: There’s a solution to this problem with the deftly named TrySkipIisCustomErrors property on the Response object which is tailor made for this particular scenario.
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In a nutshell this property when set to true at any point in the request prevents IIS from injecting its custom error pages. This flag is new in ASP.NET 3.5 – so if you’re running 2.0 only you’re out of luck.
"401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials."

Learning Photoshop...

Quoted: In this article, I showcase a method to create "smooth rounded corners" in Photoshop. By no means is this the only way to accomplish the effect, but it is one method I discovered recently, and it is fast.

Quoted: The company said earnings were $3.4 billion, up from $2.3 billion a year ago. Earnings per share were $3.67 a share, up from $2.50 a year ago. Apple reported revenues of $15.7 billion, up 32 percent $11.9 billion a year ago.
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Analysts expected Apple to report earnings of $2.07 a share on revenue of $12.06 billion in the first fiscal quarter ended December 31. Today, Apple’s stock was up 2.7 percent to $203.07 a share.

Quoted: Social finance company Cake Financial has just been acquired by E*Trade.
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It’s worth pointing out that the acquisition appears to center on Cake’s team and technology rather than its user base — rather than absorbing Cake’s users into E*Trade...

Why is Microsoft a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation?

Quoted: Facebook just announced that it has become a Gold sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. According to Facebook's David Recordon, the company wants to give back to the open source community that allowed Facebook to develop and contribute to projects like the Thrift framework, Hive, memcached and Cassandra. Apache Gold members donate $40,000 per year to the project.
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It's worth noting that this is not Apache's highest sponsorship level. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are platinum sponsors and give $100,000 per year.

Quoted: Judging by the original "Simple OAuth" moniker, the goal behind WRAP was not to confuse developers or compete with OAuth. The intention, rather, was to promote OAuth and increase long term adoption by offering an SSL variant. Therefore, if you're building a new API today and are trying to decide between deploying OAuth 1.0a or OAuth WRAP, nine times out of ten you should continue deploying OAuth 1.0a.

Quoted: Thomas Stromberg, a Google engineer based in Belgium, created Namebench, a piece of software to find the fastest DNS server available for you to use. The program is available for OS X, Windows, and Linux, and the entire thing has been open sourced by Stromberg.

Quoted: Five companies we heard a lot about in 2009, and some predictions of what we might expect from them over the next 365 days.

Quoted: So by overhyping Wave, failing to communicate how to use it, and inviting the public in too early, Google bungled its own dream here. To quote Nelson from The Simpsons, “Ha ha.”