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The Importance (and Ease) of Minifying your CSS and JavaScript and Optimizing...
Hello Dear Reader. You may feel free to add a comment at the bottom of this post, something like "Um, DUH!" after reading this. It's funny how one gets lazy with their own website. What's the old joke,...
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Analyze your Web Server Data and be empowered with LogParser and Log Parser...
I've been using LogParser whenever I need to really dig into Web Server Logs since before 2005. It's an amazing tool. I love it. Jeff Atwood loves it, and you should to. It may not being something you...
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A basic non-cloud-based personal backup strategy
In 2007 I posted about my Family's Backup Strategy and encouraged you to develop your own, or confirm the one you already have. At the time, my strategy was primary using Mozy.com as an online backup...
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NuGet Package of the Week #10 - New Mobile View Engines for ASP.NET MVC 3,...
I did some basic mobile view engine work for ASP.NET MVC for Mix in 2009 and then created what I thought was a better ASP.NET MVC Mobile ViewEngine in 2010. Unfortunately, the second one (the "better"...
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Xbox 360 won't Auto Login to Live - Fixed due to RSTP and Spanning Tree...
You change something months ago, then noticed an unrelated problem weeks later, then it takes a year to figure out that they were related. "A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil and my Xbox stops...
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Essential IFTTT (IfThisThenThat) - Programming Workflows for Humans using the...
Wow, every once in a while an app or website comes along that smacks me in the face. Not just a regular "Hey, that's cool" smack, but more of a "Duh, I should have made that and I would have had a...
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Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD...
I've posted before about my intense love for Booting off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk). It's lovely. Of course, once Hyper-V on the client happens, it will matter less, but for now, here I am, a guy with a...
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Back to Basics: Big O notation issues with older .NET code and improving for...
Earlier today Brad Wilson and I were discussing a G+ post by Jostein Kjønigsen where he says, "see if you can spot the O(n^2) bug in this code." public IEnumerable<Process>...
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WebMatrix and node.js: The easiest way to get started with node on Windows
Tomasz Janczuk and Steve Sanderson are having entirely too much fun. I posted just two weeks ago on Installing and Running node.js applications within IIS on Windows - Are you mad? when Tomasz and the...
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New Tools and New Content - ASP.NET, Visual Studio 11 Web and .NET 4.5...
While all of you Build attendees are making me feel bad because you have a fancy Tablet and I don't (sell me yours!) the folks over here in the "Angle Brackets Team" (I'm trying out some new names. One...
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This Developer's Life 2.0.5 - Typo
Who cares about typefaces and why should you? Well, these guys do and you should start caring. Rob and Scott explore the world of reading online with one of the godfathers in the world of typeface and...
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RFC: Web Platform Installer (WebPI) with an offline feed mode for bandwidth...
My wife is in the Kingdom of Swaziland this evening. If she was a developer over there and wanted to use Web Platform Installer to get Visual Studio or some large download she would have to patiently...
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Hanselminutes.com: Rewriting a 5 year old VB.NET WebForms application as an...
I'm planning on updating the Hanselminutes.com website to look more modern and look more like this newly redesigned blog. Until then, one of the things I wanted to try was to update the application...
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The Sweet Spot of Multiple Monitor Productivity: That Magical Third Monitor
I finally took the time to install a monitor bracket this evening to support my center Dell 30" monitor. Installing a monitor bracket is one of those nice little things you can do to really spruce up...
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Embrace Authorship - The importance of rel=me and rel=author on your...
There's a lot of garbage out of there on the internet. I know, I've been writing some on this blog for almost 10 years. ;) One way to let Google and Friends know that you are a real person and are...
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NuGet Package of Week #11 - ImageResizer enables clean, clear image resizing...
The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is starting to fill up that I should start looking for gems (no pun intended) in there. You know, really useful stuff that...
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It's the transparency, stupid!
I have long said it's important to not give bile a permalink so don't take this as a post that's picking on a specific company. Nearly every company is guilty of withholding information for no apparent...
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Profanity doesn't work
I was perusing the Interwebs yesterday and stumbled on a new article from Zach Holman called Don't Give Your Users Shit Work. I was a little taken aback by the swear word in the title. I clicked...
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Google+ Ripples brings something interesting to the table
I'm on Twitter. I'm on The Facebook. And, sigh, I'm on the snoozefest that has been Google+. I keep coming back to Twitter though for so many reasons Twitter, today, is just easier to to use, the...
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Your images are a virus. They are EVERYWHERE on the Internet
This is a silly little story of a silly little image. An image whose original conceptual source isn't me. Well, I made the image, I made it in PowerPoint with Smart Art in about 12 seconds over 4 years...
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