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Stop, think, research, debug
I got this great letter from a listener/reader recently. They listened to a recent show on Debugging Windows and it helped them debug a problem at work, but not in a specific technical way. Instead, it...
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A/B Testing and Testing In Production with Azure Web Apps
I've got a lot of production web sites running in Azure right now. Some are for small side projects and some are larger like the sites for the Hanselminutes Podcast and This Developer's Life. I like...
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Visual Studio 2015 Released plus ASP.NET 5 Roadmap
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 today! You can watch the keynote video from today with me, Soma, Beth Massi, Amanda Silver, and Brian Harry here on Channel 9. All the supporting videos and...
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Bring Kindness back to Open Source
When you're rude/crisp/sharp/whatever to someone in a PR or Issue, your meanness may have turned off the next generation of open source committer. It's that simple. When folks are just starting out as...
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Getting Started with Windows 10
I've been making Windows 10 videos at night to help out friends and family, and because it's fun. NOTE: Please share my videos with your family, friends, and social networks with this easy to remember...
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Apt-Get for Windows - OneGet and Chocolatey on Windows 10
In 2013 I asked the questions "Is the Windows user ready for apt-get?" As with nearly all my blog posts, the comments are better than the post itself. ;) Now it's 2015 and many of us are upgrading to...
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Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard - Dual Bluetooth Pairing and Three...
I have a Surface Pro 3, an iPad 2, and an iPhone 6+. I also have a few Android devices for development. Sometimes I'm on a plane and want to do email, or I'm playing a game on my iPad and I've got my...
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The Evergreen Web
I visited a website on my company's Intranet today using Microsoft Edge (the new "evergreen" browser in Windows 10*) and got an interesting warning. "This website needs Internet Explorer." At first I...
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Dealing with Software Religious Arguments and Architectural Zealotry
Warning: Excessive use of Capitals for Emphasis ahead. A friend of mine left his job to start a medical startup and has been in the middle of a Fight Over The Tech Stack. The current challenge is very...
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Windows 10 IoT Core controlling a Raspberry Pi 2 Robot
My 7 year old sat down and built a little robot from instructions listed at Microsoft's IoT Hackster site. To build the robot, you will need the following: Wooden Robot Frame in 7 pieces - Get the...
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On Disconnecting
Yes, I'm writing a blog post about disconnecting from technology. No, the irony is not lost on me. ;) This "vacation" thing is amazing.— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) August 25, 2015  Disconnecting...
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Our great big 15 year vow renewal
You may have noticed that I'm on vacation these last few weeks. It's the first vacation of any length I've had in a while. In fact, I do have trouble disconnecting sometimes. I've mentioned before that...
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The Butterfly Effect of Technology Community
The Butterfly Effect is everywhere, truly. The best part is, due to confirmation bias, once you start looking for it you'll see it everywhere. ;) The Butterfly Effect: This effect grants the power to...
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Review: Dremel 3D Printer and initial impressions of the HP Sprout
I've been having a blast with my new hobby - 3D Printing. I've only been printing for about 9 months but my kids and I are having fun which is what matters. I've been using an HP Sprout PC (full review...
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Optimize for Tiny Victories
I was talking with Dawn C. Hayes, a maker and occasional adjunct processor in NYC earlier this week. We were talking about things like motivation and things like biting off more than we can chew when...
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Free Training at Microsoft Virtual Academy - Introduction to ASP.NET 5
In 2013, Jon Galloway, Damian Edwards, and myself went up to film a LIVE 8 hour long Microsoft Virtual Academy training session called "Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start." We returned in 2014...
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Review: 3D Scanning with the HP 3D Capture Stage on the HP Sprout PC
The 7 year old and I have been trying to make various things with the HP Sprout (review soon) and Dremel Printer. I was sent review versions of both to explore and give feedback on. We've learned a lot...
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How to customize the Windows 10 Start Menu
It's been a few months, and pretty much everyone in my family and neighborhood has slowly upgraded to Windows 10. Some have upgraded from Windows 7 and others from Windows 8. For the most part, from a...
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Review: TP-Link AC3200 (Archer C3200) Wireless Router
I've always been a Linksys or NetGear router person. I loved the legendary Linksys WRT54G and ran DD-WRT on it for years. A while back I updated my router to the Linksys WRT1900AC. This router was...
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Introducing ASP.NET WebHooks Receivers - WebHooks made easy.
There's been a lot of enthusiasm lately about the direction that ASP.NET is going lately, and rightfully so. Support for running ASP.NET on Mac, Linux, and Windows, all happening on GitHub at...
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