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Adding AirPlay to a Receiver without an Apple TV - Raspbmc and the Raspberry Pi
I'm continually amazed at the usefulness of a small but complete $35 computer that is the size of a deck of cards. I'm coming up with all sorts of uses for the three Raspberry Pi devices in our house....
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Tiny Happy Features #1 - T4 Template Debugging in Visual Studio 2012
(UPDATE: See other Tiny Happy Features) At some point soon lots of people are going to start writing these epic blog posts about Visual Studio 2012. They will include LOTS of screenshots (some good and...
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Tiny Happy Features #2 - ASP.NET Web API in Visual Studio 2012
(UPDATE: See other Tiny Happy Features) At some point soon lots of people are going to start writing these epic blog posts about Visual Studio 2012. They will include LOTS of screenshots (some good...
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Tiny Happy Features #3 - Publishing Improvements, chained Config Transforms...
(UPDATE: See other Tiny Happy Features) At some point soon lots of people are going to start writing these epic blog posts about Visual Studio 2012. They will include LOTS of screenshots (some good and...
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Introducing LyncAutoAnswer.com - An open source remote worker's Auto Answer...
Last month I did a blog post called "Introducing Lync 2010 Super Simple Auto Answer Video Kiosk with Full Screen" where I rewrote the original Embodied Social Proxy software that I'd borrowed from...
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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 is RELEASED - Here's 5 minute...
Jason Zander announced today that Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 is RELEASED to web. The .NET Web Tools Team (the team I'm on) has coverage on their blog as well. I thought I'd showcase some...
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Installing HTTPIE (HTTP for Humans) on Windows - Great for ASP.NET Web API...
Recently in on a post on the RESTful ASP.NET Web API framework I used curl to post JSON to an HTTP endpoint: curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{ Name: 'Scott Guthrie', Age: 67}" Curl...
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Your words are wasted
It needs to be said again, perhaps this time more strongly. Your Blog is The Engine of Community. Dammit. Blog More You are not blogging enough. You are pouring your words into increasingly closed and...
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Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is.
Disclaimer: I don't work for the Windows Team. I installed Windows 8 on my home desktop (this giant multi-monitor epic beast) with my personal MSDN account and wrote this on my own time. This blog is...
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Pinning Useful and Obscure Stuff to the Windows 8 Start Menu
There were a lot of good comments on my post Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is. I've continued to explore ways to remove clicks from my life and shorten keystroke chains. A...
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ASP.NET MVC DisplayTemplate and EditorTemplates for Entity Framework...
UPDATE: Be sure to read the whole post including the refactoring update at the end via a Pull Request from Dave Ward. I was trying to write a blog post about something totally different and was using...
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Initial Impressions of the 3rd Generation Ivy Bridge Intel Ultrabook...
Some of the software folks at Intel sent me an Ivy Bridge Ultrabook to look at. It will never be production hardware - this laptop will never be made or sold. That doesn't mean it's exclusive or...
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Your Colorful Visual Studio 2012 with the Color Theme Editor (VS2010 colors,...
The stock Visual Studio 2012 gray color scheme is growing on me. Sue me. When you're writing code you usually focus on the code so I'm more concerned with the colors of the code than the chrome. Here's...
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Introducing ASP.NET FriendlyUrls - cleaner URLs, easier Routing, and Mobile...
I've said before how surprised I am that more ASP.NET Web Forms developers don't use Routing to make their URLs prettier. If you don't want "foo.aspx" in your URL, then change it with...
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Automatically Backup your Gmail account on a schedule with GMVault and...
It's nice to have your things backed up to the cloud, but you really need to have local backups as well. I have two 1TB pocket hard drives that I rotate between my home and the bank. They are labeled...
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ASP.NET Web Forms DynamicData FieldTemplates for DbGeography Spatial Types...
Did you enjoy my recent post on ASP.NET MVC DisplayTemplate and EditorTemplates for Entity Framework DbGeography Spatial Types and it's associated GIANT URL? Modeling Binding and EditorTemplates...for...
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FREE: Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop
When the Visual Studio 2012 free versions were originally announced the first thing I noticed was that they had switched from a language-specific model (C# Express, VB Express, etc) to a...
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Dick and Jane: Jedi Masters
My 6 year old started First Grade this last week. We've been reading to he and his brother, without fail, every night for their entire lives. It's been awesome to start seeing their little brains...
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Everything's broken and nobody's upset
Software doesn't work. I'm shocked at how often we put up with it. Here's just a few issues - literally off the top of my head - that I personally dealt with last week. My iPhone 4s has 3 gigs of...
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WebMatrix 2 - Front End Web Developers take note (ASP.NET, PHP, node.js and...
Did you notice the release of WebMatrix 2? WebMatrix is a free, lightweight web development tool introduced in 2010. It's focus is on simplifying the web development experience for ASP.NET and PHP, and...
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