Stephen Denton - Latest Comments

Re: Dear Marketers: Please Quit Lying to Me

Justin Lukasavige — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:38:35 -0000

I was about to enter this sweepstakes until I read your post, Stephen. Thanks for being my voice of reason.

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Stephen — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:50:59 -0000

Jon, you still owe me a dollar.

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Jon Dale — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:47:22 -0000

From now on I'm going to charge you each time I school you in ping pong...just to make sure you value the lesson properly.

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Joel G. Robertson — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:57:23 -0000

Great post! I agree that by charging you're eliminating the folks who don't really want what you're offering. But I've found that when I don't charge, or charge enough, my motivation to help someone also wains (especially if they are disinterested), which isn't fair to anyone.

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Stephen — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:30:00 -0000

Thanks Raun!

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Raun Lauterbach — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:28:57 -0000

That's a really helpful way of defining money. As someone who has trouble charging for what comes easy to me, this makes a ton of sense.

Great "Your Story" on CoachRadio.TV, by the way.

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Stephen — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:22:53 -0000

You mean as a business coach or a gigolo?

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Justin Lukasavige — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:03:55 -0000

Absolutely agree. It's the same reason I don't give away my services. In the past, there have been too many people who wasted my time and theirs and didn't do anything with it.

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

Joshep — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:33:03 -0000

Thanks!!!!

Re: I need a website for $400

Joz! — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:55:28 -0000

as a web and graphics designer (reasonably new to it), i can find actively searching for sales (through tweets) can unravel even tighter gits than your $400 friend of a friend of a friend.

i spent 2 hours talking someone through a step-by-step " the basic [knowledge] requirements when looking to buy a website on the open market" and passed my quote through at the end of it. i didn't mind wasting the 2 hours, but when that person dot.com'd me before i finished adding the decimals i was well £$%&'d to say the least.

it was a 50/50 call and i lost out there, but shish.....what happened to common courtesy!!

Re: Keds

Blessing — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:39:03 -0000

That's way more clever than I was expecting. Thsnak!

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

Rody van Sambeek — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:03:54 -0000

Wow, this saved me an entire evening of painful debugging. Had some problems encoding characters like é and ê for a Twitter integration, just Googled a bit before starting my own troubleshooting and found this. It did the job! Great work!

Re: Good Leaders are Expendable

Keenan Erwin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:22:49 -0000

Brilliant. I really like that.

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

Tim Skipper — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:14:25 -0000

Thank you! I've been bashing my head against the oAuth wall for two days, and it turns out I was using HttpUtility.UrlEncode, which isn't suitable. I've used your replacement function and it now works.

Great post!

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

Juanje — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:40:19 -0000

Thank you!!!!!

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

zehra — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:45:28 -0000

Ok, I got the logic from your comment in the code. And changed that line using "MatchEvaluator" and with a local method doing the same thing.

Anyway, when I tried the code, it worked. Thanks a lot since I have been dealing with this problem for days !!!

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

zehra — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:31:35 -0000

It gives me an error in line:
value = Regex.Replace(value, "(%[0-9a-f][0-9a-f])", c => c.Value.ToUpper());

What is "c => c.Value.ToUpper()"? And how it works?

Thanks..

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

Jack Thompson — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:24:26 -0000

Thanks!!! This is the ONLY Twitter oAuth URL Encoding function I've found that works with international characters!!!

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

Ricky — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:14:53 -0000

You're a life saver. I knew that UrlEncode was not exactly what OAuth needed, and, surprisingly, the code supplied by the OAuth group is actually incorrect, too. It doesn't properly encode 2, 3, and 4-byte characters.

Long story short, you saved me some time and squashed a bug for me.

Re: How You Should Do Online Passwords

Paul — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:23:59 -0000

Only 4 passwords? No!! You have to have unique password to each site to ensure your privacy security. I have password manager which makes everything for me.

http://www.stickypassword.com

Re: How You Should Do Online Passwords

Levi Smith — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:43:02 -0000

Sorry about the hassle, though you're right on with the advice. for anyone looking for a good password manager, i've been really pleased with keepass.

Re: Is Having a “Miles” Credit Card Worth it?

Robert Pulanski — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:39:39 -0000

Great math here. So - if we switch off our card and apply for a different one, do you have any recommendations for cards that are "worth it"?

Re: The Difference Between Where I Work and Facebook HQ

Kevin Miller — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:07:15 -0000

The difference between crap and chocolate is often just a slight degree. I merely help folks shift so the crap becomes...refined and beautiful. And viable...so they can make families priority!