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Windows Azure - No Kidding
Last year when ScottGu moved over to the Azure group and brought the ASP.NET and IIS teams with him, I'll be frank, I wasn't a fan. I didn't really appreciate Azure or its first iteration. The...
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Visual Basic 6, Ruby and Getting Off My Lawn
David Platt has a great article called The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives. Even though I studied C++ in school, my first corporate job was in Visual Basic 2, then quickly VB3. By the...
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ConEmu - The Windows Terminal/Console/Prompt we've been waiting for?
I have long sung the praises of Console2, an alternative Windows Command Prompt. In fact, I declared in 2004 that Windows was (and is) missing the boat when it comes to Text Mode. A kick ass terminal...
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Simulating an iPhone or iPad browser for ASP.NET Mobile Web Development with...
I mentioned the Electric Plum Mobile Simulator as a nice way to check your site on an iPhone while using a Windows machine in my post called "Create a great mobile experience for your website today....
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Who is on your Life's Board of Directors?
My good friend Luvvie, a humor blogger, recently tweeted this in response to some goodness in her life: Everyone needs a life board of directors. A group of people [who] mentor you and help you find...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 323 (and more) - On Empathy with Leon Gersing the Ruby...
It's been a while since I updated the Podcast category of my blog. I never got around to making a script to do it for me and I started to feel like some weeks were just blog posts of lifeless podcast...
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The Sad State of Diabetes Technology in 2012
I've been diabetic for almost two decades. It's tiring, let me tell you. Here's a video of my routine when I change my insulin pump and continuous meter. I'm not looking for pity, sadness or...
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Managing the Cloud from the Command Line
I blogged about the Windows Azure cloud a few weeks ago. I'm digging the new stuff and trying different scenarios on Macs, PCs and Linux (I prefer Ubuntu). As a long time PowerShell and Command Line...
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Back To Basics: You aren't smarter than the compiler. (plus fun with...
Microbenchmarks are evil. Ya, I said it. Folks spend hours in tight loops measuring things trying to find out the "best way" to do something and forget that while they are changing 5ms between two...
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NuGet 2.0 (.NET Package Manager) released - GO UPGRADE NOW and here's why
Before we get started, take a second and head over to http://nuget.org and click Install NuGet. Actually, just do it from here. I'll wait. It's a 2.5 meg VSIX file and will take just a minute to...
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If malware authors ever learn how to spell we're all screwed - the coming...
Forgive the lousy screenshot and transparency in the title bar, but I just got this fake virus popup while searching for an image. I admit for a single moment my heart jumped. Then I thought after a...
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Introducing Lync 2010 Super Simple Auto Answer Video Kiosk with Full Screen
If you check out my blog archives or check out the Remote Work category you'll see that I'm always tinkering with my remote work situation. I'm the most interested in high quality and pervasive video....
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FormsAuthentication on ASP.NET sites with the Google Chrome Browser on iOS
A few people have said that they have noticed problems the new iPhone/iPad Google Chrome apps as well as trouble with applications that use hosted Safari inside of UIWebView (which is what Chrome is)....
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HOW TO FIX: Toyota Entune 2.0.1 Update breaks Internet Tethering over Bluetooth
In April I blogged about my disappointment with the state of car dashboard technology in "My car ships with crapware." I recently bought a Toyota Prius with "Entune," an in-dash software system that...
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Google+ Plus offers a Sophie's Choice to early adopters of Google Apps via an...
I'm a long time Google Apps for Your Domain (GAFYD) user. That means that hanselman.com email, calendars, etc is all handled by Google Apps. I've got dozens of other Hanselpeople (relatives and others...
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Entity Framework Magic Unicorn (and much more!) is now open source with take...
Almost exactly two years from the day we announced Entity Framework "Magic Unicorn Edition" and just a few months after open sourcing of ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, and Razor we're happy to...
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Is Daddy on a call? A BusyLight Presence indicator for Lync for my Home Office
Consider this the first in a series of posts on using Lync effectively as a Remote Worker. I've blogged about building and wiring my home office, working from home remotely, and even done a video with...
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Free ASP.NET Training Videos from aspConf now available for download or...
There's lots of goodness happening in the .NET and ASP.NET community right now. If you're not plugged in, you can follow ASP.NET on Twitter or Like ASP.NET on Facebook and we'll keep you up to date...
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Top 10 Raspberry Pi Myths and Truths
First, let me go on the record as saying I'm a huge Raspberry Pi fan. If you haven't heard already, a Raspberry Pi is a small but complete $35 computer (or $25 without Ethernet). It's a complete 700...
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Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing
The guilt can be crushing. Everyone seems to be getting stuff done, except you. You drag yourself out of bed, go to work, start checking email, start deleting, then poof, it's noon. Lunch, perhaps at...
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