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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: January 7th, 2013
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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Simultaneous Editing for Visual Studio with the free MultiEdit extension
I use a number of text editors. The three I have pinned to my taskbar are Visual Studio, Sublime Text 2, and Notepad 2.I have three because I like features from one and wish those features were in...
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Video: Effectively Managing Your Personal Brand Online
This blog, my twitter, my YouTube are all part of my online presence. While my day job is ensuring that Microsoft's web developer tools work well across many cross cutting concerns, my passion remains...
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Chasing an active Social Engineering Fraud at Amazon Kindle
TL;DR: I've just spent several hours chasing a socially engineered (not password compromised) stolen Kindle through a series of phone calls, chats, virtual shipping addresses, UPS tracking numbers and...
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I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora.
I was browsing the web today, as I often do, with my iPhone on the can. (Yeah, you do it too, don't front.)A link to an interesting Q&A on Quora came along, so I clicked. And got this.Wow. This is...
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Teach your kids to be fans
I love how social media shatters the barriers to entry for fans. I can tweet my favorite actors and authors, like my favorite comic artists or writers and connect with them in a way that has not just...
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Released: ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 in Context
Last year the ASP.NET start talking about something we've called "One ASP.NET." I showed some mockups of our ideas last summer at the aspConf Keynote that you can watch online. We also announced then...
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You're just another carriage return line feed in the wall
I love getting pull requests on GitHub. It's such a lovely gift when someone wants to contribute their code to my code. However, it seems there are three kinds of pull requests that I get.Awesome,...
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: February 4th, 2013
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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RELEASED - Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7
Just about a month ago the IEBlog published a post to allow business to manage the update schedule for Internet Explorer 10. It says "this approach lets organizations control when they are ready to...
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Being a Remote Worker Sucks - Long Live the Remote Worker
I've been a 100% remote worker at Microsoft for just about 5 years now. My last two jobs were both 7 year long gigs, so this isn't the longest I've worked somewhere, but clocking in at a half-decade,...
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The Internet's Best Placeholder Image Sites for Web Development
So you're making a site but you haven't got the images ready. You'll need placeholders, but things are changing quick and you don't want to make a bunch of images you'll eventually throw away.Enter...
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Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start - 8 Hours of FREE Training Videos
Last week Jon Galloway, Damian Edwards and myself (with a raspy throat) were up in Redmond at the Microsoft Campus filming at Microsoft Virtual Academy. They've got a whole studio there so we spent the...
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Programming's not for you? How about thinking? Be empowered.
There seems to be two extremes of this whole "Learn to Code" movement which has come to a crescendo with the "What most schools don't teach" video from Code.org. People seem to fall on the side of...
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Our first year. A new web conference - <anglebrackets>
There's a new web conference happening in Vegas next month and you should join us. John Papa, myself and our friends pulled in the speakers from a combination of invitations and submitted talks. It's...
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Technology fails in film are the new Wilhelm Scream
There's no other explanation. It must be a tradition like the Wilhelm scream. What, haven't heard of the Wilhelm scream? Well, once you do it's impossible to not hear it in every film. It's in freaking...
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: February 26th, 2013
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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Installing Sendy (a PHP app) on Windows Azure to send inexpensive newsletter...
TL;DR SummarySendy.co is a lovely and polished PHP app that uses Amazon's SES (Simple Email Service) to send email on the cheap.It's easy to setup PHP apps on Windows Azure.Azure Websites don't support...
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Moving old apps from IIS6 to IIS8 and why Classic Mode exists
I had an interesting emailed question today. Here's a paraphrased one sentence version of the question:Why does an ASP.NET Runtime issue surface in IIS 8.0 Integrated Pool for an application we have...
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NuGet Package of the Week #13 - Portable HttpClient makes portable libraries...
When you've got an idea for an app, it's likely that you've got the idea for that app in more than one place. By this I mean, you'll start with a phone app, then make a desktop app, then a web app. Or...
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