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Google Chromecast Review - The race is on to wirelessly throw video to your TV
The Google Chromecast is simple and brilliant. It's one of those perfect little "duh! Why didn't someone do that before?" ideas. I didn't realize I needed one until I realized that I've been chasing...
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Am I really a developer or just a good googler?
I got a very earnest and well-phrased email from a young person overseas recently. Some time in my mind sounds come that Is that I am really a developer or just a good googler. I don't know what is the...
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: August 5th, 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. You can view all the previous newsletters here. Here's the...
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A Cloud and Azure Glossary for the Confused
A parody Twitter account called Confused .NET Dev last week tweeted:For a web hoster Azure has a crazy learning curve: Blob, Table, Queue, Service Bus, Access Control, Drive, CDN, etc @...
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The Magic of using Asynchronous Methods in ASP.NET 4.5 plus an important gotcha
First, I encourage you to listen to episode 327 of the Hanselminutes podcast. We called it "Everything .NET programmers know about Asynchronous Programming is wrong" and I learned a lot. I promise you...
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The Broken Windows Theory of App Stores
Imagine that the web itself had an app store, and your clicked "New Releases" to see the latest websites that the web just published. It would be 99% crap. And that's being generous. Having a section...
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A month with an Intel Haswell prototype
Intel sent me a Haswell Developer Prototype Ultrabook to review a little over a month ago. In order to effectively review this, given my experience, I need to separate the Haswell Chipset and Processor...
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Visual Studio 2013 RC for Web Developers - One ASP.NET, Browser Link, and our...
ASP.NET and Web Tools for VS2013RC is out today. You can feel free to install it over the top of VS2013 Preview if you like. That's what I did.Download and Install VS2013RCBe sure to check out...
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Trying a Nokia Lumia 1020 - A Camera with a Phone Inside
I've had an iPhone since the iPhone 3G. My main personal phone is an iPhone 4S. I'm always checking out new phones, however, most recently the Blackberry Z10. The last time I tried a Windows Phone was...
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Teaching Kids Electronics, Computers, and Programming Fundamentals with Snap...
I'm not particularly interested in my kids being programmers or computer people. I'd rather they be interested in life and totally geeked about something. If that's computers, fine. If that's ballet,...
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The New Turbo Button - Balancing Power Management and Performance on Windows...
Do you remember the Turbo Button? I actually thought of it is the "be slow button" because we always kept it on Turbo. Why wouldn't you want a fast computer all the time? The Turbo Button was actually...
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Generating complex math visualizations in SVG using C# and ILNumerics
I was recently turned on to the ILNumerics library. It's a high performance math library for .NET developers that my math skills can barely comprehend. It has a clean and elegant syntax, but more...
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IE10 and IE11 and Windows 8.1 and __doPostBack
A while back there was a bug in the old browser definition files that shipped with .NET 2 and .NET 4. Fast forward to today and these older ASP.NET’s will mis-detect IE10 and IE11. If you have this,...
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SCREENCASTS: What's New in Visual Studio 2013 - learn over lunch!
I could write a whole epic post about what's new in VS2013 for Web folks and front-end developers, but this time instead I did some videos. I'm proud of them and I think they really show some of the...
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CollectionViewSource is crazy useful for binding to filtered Observable...
I've been working on this Windows Phone 8 app on the side (it's a news app, but mark my words, it's gonna be huge). For the initial development I've been binding to a Pivot to a basic...
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Make a Windows 8.1 Pinned Live Tile for YOUR website in minutes
I actually set this up on my site a few months back when Windows 8.1 preview showed up, but I didn't mention it. If you've got Windows 8.1, you've likely figured out that the most fun apps are ones...
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How to install the nodejs Ghost blogging software on Azure Websites
Like many folks, I watched the recent Kickstarter for the nodejs-based Ghost Blogging Platform with great interest. There are lots of folks, myself included, who believe that WordPress has jumped from...
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Using a Surface 2 (RT/ARM) to get actual work done + Remote Desktop + Visual...
I'm using just a Surface 2 today for work. Remember that the Surface 2 runs Office plus any apps in the Microsoft Store. It doesn't support installing desktop apps like Visual Studio or QuickBooks. It...
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How to sign into Windows 8 or 8.1 without a Microsoft account - make a local...
I was setting up Windows 8.1 on a machine and didn't want to use a Microsoft ID (Live ID) to sign into it. I didn't feel like linking this temporary machine to my existing Microsoft ID and just wanted...
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PowerCfg - The hidden energy and battery tool for Windows you're not using
There's been a lot of talk about power and energy usage by PCs lately, especially ones on battery. I use an irresponsibly power hungry desktop at home, an Ivy Bridge Intel Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch for...
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