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NuGet Package of the Week: ASP.NET Web API Caching with CacheCow and CacheOutput
You can see other cool NuGet Packages I've mentioned on the blog here. Today's NuGet package is CacheCow, which has possibly the coolest Open Source Library name since Lawnchair.js. "CacheCow is a...
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Diabetics: It's fun to say Bionic Pancreas but how about a reality check
The state of healthcare reporting is just abysmal. It's all link-bait. It's fun to write things like "Random Joe invents cure for diabetes in his garage, saves dying 5 year old." It's surely less fun...
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Catch up on all the videos from DotNetConf Spring 2014
Did you miss out on DotNetConf when it streamed LIVE just a few weeks ago? Don't you worry, it's all recorded and online for you to stream or download! We are happy happy to announce that we’re...
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Review: Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e - A fantastic pan tilt zoom camera and...
I'm forever looking for tools that can make me a more effective remote worker. I'm still working remotely from Portland, Oregon for folks in Redmond, Washington. You might think that a nice standard HD...
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How to enter and use Emoji on Windows 8.1
I have an iPhone 5s and every once in a while my wife and would be texting and I would send her a and she would be like "why you sending me a square?" Then later she got a Nokia 1020 and then we could...
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: June 2nd, 2014
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.You can view all the previous newsletters here. You can...
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Personal Productivity: Business vs. busyness vs. laziness
There's an ancient cliché that drives a lot of my thinking about personal productivity. "Excessive busy-ness is a common form of laziness."Busy-ness in the Tibetan tradition is considered the most...
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Parenting Tip: Star Wars Audiobooks, Family, and narrator Marc Thompson
The wife and the boys and I are often in the car for 30 minutes or more, heading off to various activities or events. We live pretty far outside of town, and when we need to head into the city, it's...
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How to add a keyboard and write in YOUR language in Windows for free
A lot of people don't realize that Windows supports a LOT of different languages out of the box. After Windows 7 and now with Windows 8 and 8.1, you can add keyboards to dozens of languages without...
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NuGet Package of the Week: MarkdownLog makes log files much prettier
While I'm not 100% gaga over Markdown as I know many of you are, I definitely appreciate it's usefulness and it's clarity. Some folks would say I shouldn't rest until every binary document on my hard...
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How to create a file with a . dot prefix in Windows Explorer
If you right click in Windows and try to make a new text file with a . period/dot in front of it:Name the file...something like .gitignore, for example.You'll get the "You must type a file name"...
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You aren't using Resource Monitor enough
Most folks learn how to use Task Manager pretty quickly. We've all been on the phone with non-technical-relative and ask them to open up Task Manager.As we move from user to technical-user we are...
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Fixing the Touch Screen in Windows 8.1 on my old HP TouchSmart with...
We've got an older HP TouchSmart all in one computer that we use as the "Kitchen PC." It's basically a browsing, emails, YouTube, and recipes machine. It's lovely machine, really. I've actually seen...
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Exploring Impostor Syndrome in Technology - SXSW '15
I've written before about the idea of Imposter Syndrome or being a "Phony." It's the idea that on the surface you're an accomplished technologist but inside you're always questioning if you're really...
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Surface Pro 3 - Initial Impressions
I went out and bought a Surface Pro 3. I bought the i7 8 gig RAM 256 gig storage version. It was paid for with my own money and there were no discounts. It's been a while since I had a high-powered...
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I was annoyed by the web font issues at Upworthy...you won't believe what I...
Sorry about the title, I had to. ;)I was running Windows and Google Chrome and I clicked on a link to an Upworthy.com video. When I go to Upworthy recently (don't judge me) I've been seeing this weird...
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How to run Background Tasks in ASP.NET
A few years back Phil Haack wrote a great article on the dangers of recurring background tasks in ASP.NET. In it he points out a few gotchas that are SO common when folks try to do work in the...
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ASP.NET vNext - August 2014 Status Rollup
Work on the next version of ASP.NET continues. It's a world of Alpha software, Git commits, breaking changes, and daily builds. If you're not one for risk, this blog post is for you. Read about all the...
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Introducing Gulp, Grunt, Bower, and npm support for Visual Studio
Web Development, specifically front end web development, is fast becoming as complex and sophisticated as traditional back end development. Most projects don't just upload some JS and CSS files via...
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Can you hear me now? Unmute your microphone
I've been working remotely now, from home, for over half a decade. I work in my home office, from cafes, from my tethered mobile, basically anywhere I can be productive and not feel like a phony.Here's...
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