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I'm Mike Pope. I live in the Seattle area. I've been a technical writer and editor for over 35 years. I'm interested in software, language, music, movies, books, motorcycles, travel, and ... well, lots of stuff.

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Feature matrices suck. A feature matrix says: "Here is what everyone else is doing. To be competitive you must do the same." Where's the differentiation? Where's the innovation in doing exactly what everyone else does, ticking the boxes, shaving off one or two points in each row so you get the green tick?

— Charles Miller

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January 2025

25 Most-Visited Entries

1. THE most basic way to implement ASP.NET Razor security
2. Fun (or not) with noun stacks
3. Rendering HTML as HTML in Razor
4. Using the confirmation feature for ASP.NET Web Pages security
5. Changing the headlight on a 2010 Honda Shadow Phantom
6. RSS feed truncation: reader's choice
7. When in English, do like English
8. Constructing site URLs in ASP.NET Razor
9. Dude, where's my Razor API ref?
10. WebMatrix Beta 2 tip: why can't I use helpers?
11. Documenting ASP.NET Razor
12. Anniversaries in IT
13. Tech review tips and strategies (Part 1)
14. Moving a website in WebMatrix
15. Finding the right trousers
16. Blog update: Added a Facebook Like button
17. How Feynman learned to crack a safe
18. Blog feed fixed, oops
19. Moving the blog
20. Blog move successful (?)
21. Geopolitical concerns and the 4 fingers of ... change
22. Theory And Practice Of Editing New Yorker Articles [Selections]
23. Each unique different kind of its own
24. Well, THAT happened
25. SME + training doth not (necessarily) a writer make