When using Forms Authentication, it can be desirable to store additional information with the authentication cookie, like the user's first name, or whether or not they are an admin. Thankfully, while not super intuitive, Forms Authentication does provide this using the FormsAuthenticationTicket's UserData property.

The UserData property is a string, so you can store pipe-separated data, or even a serialized object.

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When working with rounded percentages, it's actually not that easy to make sure the percentages add up to 100%. Take the following example:

• 40.5%
• 20.6%
• 38.9%

If you use basic rounding, you'll get 41%, 21%, and 39%... which adds up to 101%!

So, what can we do?

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Pager.js is a single-page application framework for KnockoutJS, and it has a lot of neat things out-of-the-box. But if you're using it, you may wonder how to create a 404 page, since there's no explicit method for this purpose.

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I'm using Squarespace to create a fairly straightforward site for a restaurant. Squarespace uses their flavour of markdown syntax when creating menu items, and for the most part it's pretty fool-proof. I did hit a small hiccup, however, when I needed to add a dollar sign ($) to a description for a menu item.

The problem is that when Squarespace sees the dollar sign, it assumes that text is for the price, and moves it to the bottom (which messes up everything else), so you get something like looks like this:

Here's the matching markdown:

Loch Duart Scottish Salmon Salad
Grilled sustainable salmon served a top of mixed spring greens, tomatoes and cucumber, with your choice of dressing (substitute with sesame crusted seared tuna steak for an additional $3)
$14

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For the first time ever, I'm making a list of career goals for the year. I'm shooting for some low-hanging fruit here, but hey, I have to start somewhere! [If you judge me on any of these, maybe YOUR resolution should be to BACK OFF... Ok, phew, sorry. That was uncalled-for... I'll calm down.]

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