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How to set up CrashPlan Cloud Backup headless on a Synology NAS - Backup...
At home I use a Synology 1511+ NAS (Network Attached Storage) server for all my family's digital things. The Synology gives me virtually all the features I had when I was in love with the Windows Home...
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Nest Thermostat Review 2nd Generation - Every consumer electronic device...
Last year I purchased and installed a 3M Filtrete Touchscreen WiFi-Enabled Programmable Thermostat and have generally been very happy with it. It's not automatic, but it's programmable and it has a...
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My next PC will be an Ultrabook
Darn it all. I didn't want to like this little computer. I've always been a "MOAR POWER" laptop user. For me, laptops are desktop replacements. It's less about the carrying and more about the "setting...
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Updating my Windows Phone App to Windows Phone 8
Earlier this year I wrote a small Windows Phone 7 application in a day called Lost Phone Screen. It creates lock screens for you with your name and contact number on them to aid in finding your phone...
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Comparing two techniques in .NET Asynchronous Coordination Primitives
Last week in my post on updating my Windows Phone 7 application to Windows 8 I shared some code from Michael L. Perry using a concept whereby one protects access to a shared resource using a critical...
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ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 (Release Candidate)
I've talked before in presentations that the ASP.NET and Web Tools team has been slowly externalizing pieces of ASP.NET. You've seen it in many pieces of the ASP.NET runtime moving into NuGet while...
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When in doubt, turn on Tracing
One of my favorite posts that I've done is "The Internet is not a black box. Look inside."I really want to encourage folks to look inside "black boxes" - or more accurately, what they perceive as black...
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iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet?
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft in Azure doing open source for the web. I have never worked for the Windows group. I've been blogging here for a decade and I stand on my reputation for being fair and...
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How to keep your ASP.NET database connection strings secure when deploying to...
I was working with Rob Conery today during lunch moving the This Developer's Life podcast website to Git. We recorded the whole upgrade and migration experience and it will be up as a video on TekPub...
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2012 Archive of Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things
I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me.Still, it's one more site to check and it's a hassle for...
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NuGet Package(s) of the Week #12 - Accessing Google Spreadsheets with GData...
Sometimes I write apps for charities on the side. Recently I've been doing some charity coding on the side for The Red Pump Project. They are a non-profit focused on raising awareness about the impact...
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The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video
A few months ago while sitting at a Burger King (yes, I know) I recorded a video on "How to use Windows 8 in 3 minutes" and threw it up on YouTube. It's been viewed nearly a half million times. Eek....
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Unlocking Windows 8 "God Mode" - A Useful Trick but also Mysterious Nonsense
Everyone likes the idea of a cheat mode, or "God Mode." Many years ago - I think around 1993 - Doom introduced the idea of switching a player into God Mode within the game by typing IDDQD. You'd then...
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Cancer
Cancer. My wife has, or hopefully by now, had Cancer.See that To Do List in the picture at the right there? That's how awesome my wife is. This is her list for the day of the surgery that would remove...
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You are not your code.
I'm a lousy programmer. However, I am less lousy than I was last year, and significantly less lousy than I was 20 years ago. Even still, there's a lot of crap on my GitHub and Bitbucket repos - but I'm...
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Integrating Mozilla Persona with ASP.NET
ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 is coming soon, but one of the features of ASP.NET that you can use TODAY is support for Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Facebook logins out of the box with ASP.NET...
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Plex is the media center software ecosystem I've been waiting for
I've blogged about my Synology 1511+ NAS before and how I have added a few things to it like CrashPlan Cloud Backup and even discussed it on my podcast. When you have a headless server in your home,...
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Git support for Visual Studio - Git, TFS, and VS put into Context
Dogs and cats, living together...mass hysteria. This classic Ghostbusters quote is used by many geek-types (myself included) whenever something crazy or unexplained happens. Today Brian Harry from...
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Cross Browser Debugging integrated into Visual Studio with BrowserStack
TL;DR - Too Long Didn't Read VersionBrowserStack Integrated into Visual StudioFrom a debug session inside Visual Studio 2012 today with ASP.NET 2012.2 RC installed. Click the dropdown next to your...
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This Developer's Life 3.0.1 - Cancer
Big thanks from both my wife and myself for the outpouring of support after our Cancer announcement. Last year was a long year and the Cancer part of the year was particularly long. We were very...
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