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Jeff Atwood wrote a post called Please Don’t Learn to Code and Zed Shaw wrote a post […]

The Floppy Disk Icon means “save” for a whole generation of people who have never […]

Let me start by saying I’m not a big Star Wars guy. I enjoyed the films when I was […]

A while back my buddy Sam Saffron (from Stack Overflow and Mini Profiler) complained to […]

I visit a lot of customers and look at a lot of code. I also worked with a number of […]

Today Google Drive and Windows SkyDrive came out with clients for Windows and Mac. […]

People are fascinating with making mobile web sites. It’s amazing that we’re not […]

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Jeff had a blog post yesterday (seems everything he writes in his retirement gets on […]

I wanted to work through a new tutorial by former Microsoftie, now Googler Pete LePage along with Chris Wilson. They have a great lab called "WReader" that uses Ember, HTML5 Boilerplate, Moment.js, Bootstrap CSS and LawnChair.js that builds a single page JavaScript application over 12 exercises. A few weeks ago a non-Microsoft developer saw a…

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My wife is quite a bit smarter than I am. She is also more educated that I am. Frankly, I’m happy she talks to me at all. She put a photo on Facebook last week of she and a friend and was careful to double-check that the photo was set to "Friends only." A few days later she rushed in and told me that she thought the photo was public even though…

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It’s getting to the point where there are so many cool open source projects that I can’t keep up. When you add in the currently battle royale of JavaScript projects that are basically just hip sounding words with ".js" added to the end, it’s a little overwhelming. Seriously, just pick a word out of the dictionary at random and that’s the name of…

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There are few things sadder than the software that ships with your car’s in dash computer. it’s 2012 and we have hybrids that can regenerate power from inertia but the car manufacturers haven’t figured out that we just want the in-dash car screen to be powered by our smartphone. Sure, there’s a few products in the space like the hobbyist-grade…

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I’ve done a number of talks on Productivity in the past. Lots of folks ask me what my tips are for being productive. I’ve taken all those tips as well as tips from Kathy Sierra, Stephen Covey, David Allen, The Pomodoro Technique and many more and aggregated them into a system that works well for me. I talk about how to effectively handle large…

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Warning, this is long but full of info. Read it all. Often folks want to dynamically generate stuff with ASP.NET. The want to dynamically generate PDFs, GIFs, PNGs, CSVs, and lots more. It’s easy to do this, but there’s a few things to be aware of if you want to keep things as simple and scalable as possible. You need to think about the whole…

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I’m realizing there’s a number of subtle but important new things in the next version of VS that streamline some previously difficult tasks. For example, there’s the .NET Framework, but .NET is also in Silverlight, the Windows Phone, the Xbox, etc. If you create a regular Class Library it has a single Target Framework. However, if you are doing a…

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I’m realizing there’s a number of subtle but important new things in the next version of VS that streamline some previously difficult tasks. For example, there’s the .NET Framework, but .NET is also in Silverlight, the Windows Phone, the Xbox, etc. If you create a regular Class Library it has a single Target Framework. However, if you are doing a…

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Mom and Dad, it’s a dangerous Internet. You like it and you use it but you don’t understand it. I totally get that. I don’t understand plumbing. I know that the sink drain goes into the bendy thing and then into the wall. After the pipe hits the wall, as far as I know, it’s turtles all the way down . I assume the Internet feels about the same to…

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