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Hidden Gems in Visual Studio 11 Beta - .NET Portable Class Libraries
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...
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Back to Basics: Dynamic Image Generation, ASP.NET Controllers, Routing,...
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...
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It's not what you read, it's what you ignore - Video of Scott Hanselman's...
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...
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My car ships with crapware
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...
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The Big Glossary of Open Source JavaScript and Web Frameworks with Cool Names
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...
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Facebook's privacy settings are too complex for ANYONE to use - Change these...
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...
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Visual Studio 11 Express for Web for Front End Development -...
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,...
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Given I like reading Source Code by the fire with my smoking jacket and...
Jeff had a blog post yesterday (seems everything he writes in his retirement gets on Hacker News as well) about reading source code. While Jeff's post is largely a pull-quote of a post on Hacker News...
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Root Cause Analysis for Toddlers and Medical Eyeball Tweezers
This has been a very stressful week. Our four year old had a piece of metal in his cornea. Twice. That's two different pieces over multiple days in the same eye. In one week. He's great now, no lasting...
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Create a great mobile experience for your website today. Please.
People are fascinating with making mobile web sites. It's amazing that we're not impressed with the fact we carry tiny supercomputers in our pockets but we're amazed when a website looks decent on our...
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A world of pretty cloud drive icons - SkyDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox,...
Today Google Drive and Windows SkyDrive came out with clients for Windows and Mac. There's also SkyDrive apps for Windows Phone, iPhone, or iPad and OneNote apps that sync to SkyDrive for Windows...
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Back to Basics: Moving beyond for, if and switch
I visit a lot of customers and look at a lot of code. I also worked with a number of large production code bases in my previous jobs and I see a lot of ifs, fors and switches. I see loops inside of...
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Introducing Workspace Reloader - A Visual Studio AddIn to save your open...
A while back my buddy Sam Saffron (from Stack Overflow and Mini Profiler) complained to me on Skype that he was finding it very irritating that every time he updated his project outside of Visual...
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The Nerd Parent's Guide: When and how to introduce your kids to Star Wars
Let me start by saying I'm not a big Star Wars guy. I enjoyed the films when I was growing up (I think I saw the original (Ep. 4 ANH) in 1980 along with Empire Strikes Back in 1980) but I haven't...
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The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make...
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one. — Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) May 9, 2012 What happens when all the things we based are icons on don't...
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Please Learn to Think about Abstractions
Jeff Atwood wrote a post called Please Don't Learn to Code and Zed Shaw wrote a post called Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer. My wife lost her wedding ring down the drain. She...
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ASP.NET MVC Beta and RC Upgrades - Confirm your Expectations and Version...
I was working on an app locally using a daily build (newer than the currently released one) of ASP.NET MVC and deployed it to a host. I noticed this weird CSS issue. See how the text box on the left...
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She let me take the computer home. - How did you get started in computers and...
I like hearing stories about how people got into computers and programming. Perhaps if I blog my story, you'll share yours. I went to school in NE Portland in a small and diverse but relatively poor...
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Visual Studio 2012 RC is released - The Big Web Rollup
Today Visual Studio 2012 RC (Release Candidate) came out. There's a lot of nice improvements for Web Development in this release candidate as we march towards a final release. Here's some of my...
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ASP.NET for Mobile, One ASP.NET and Realtime ASP.NET with Signalr - Video of...
I was outside Moscow last week speaking at Microsoft DevCon 12 in Russia. They did a great job with the event and not only filmed everything but did picture in picture as well as real-time translation...
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