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Got clocks?
"Spring forward, fall back" - The Idiot who invented Daylight Savings Time. It's time to switch from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time. I tweeted earlier that I'd gone around the house and...
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Back to Basics: Daylight Savings Time bugs strike again with SetLastModified
No matter how well you know a topic, or a codebase, it's never to late (or early) to get nailed by a latest bug a over a half-decade old. DasBlog, the ASP.NET 2 blog engine that powers this blog, is...
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Useful Visual Studio Extension - Web Essentials from Mads Kristensen
Visual Studio 2010 is really extensible and that's allowed many folks on the team to try out new features for Web Development without having to rebuild Visual Studio itself. One of those "playground"...
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Your users don't care if you use Web Sockets
I had a lovely time at the Keeping It Realtime Conference this week in Portland. The conference was put on by the lovely folks over at &yet and I'm glad I met them. "KRTConf" was a whole conference...
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Solving the Shakespeare Million Monkeys Problem in Real-time with Parallelism...
A little over 18 months ago I was talking to Stephen Toub (he of the Parallel Computing fame) about parallelism and the kinds of problems it could solve. I said, naively, "could we solve the million...
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How To: Convert a PowerPoint Presentation from 4:3 ratio to 16:9 without...
It always sucks to show up to a conference with a slide deck that looks lovely with lots of pictures and evocative hipster stock photography all nicely formatted for a 4:3 ratio (1024x768 pixels is...
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CSI: My Computer - What is netsession_win.exe from Akamai and how did it get...
I know my system backwards and forwards and I do not like noticing stuff running in the background that I don't recognize. Recently I was checking out the Task Manager (right click on the clock, and...
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This Developer's Life 2.0.6 - Play
What do you do when you're not staring at your computer screen? What obsession grips you as you drive home? In this episode we ask David Heinemeier Hansson and Pete Brown this very question. David...
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Five Absolutely Essential Utilities that make Windows better
Yes, I know I'm late in updating my Tools List. I know. Maybe this weekend. Let me tell you about five tools that are so useful, so compelling and so "should have been built into Windows" that I now...
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How to change the location of your iPhone backup and iTunes MobileSync Backup...
My C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync was almost 25 gigs and on a 256 gig hard drive, that's 10% and that's tight. I wanted to move it but there's no officially support way....
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Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7
This is an "updated for Windows 7" version of my popular original article Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows Vista. I've got a 256 gig C: drive, but noticed that in the last week or so I'd...
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Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable. Here's mine. Each has a distinct purpose, and I probably touch each at least a few times a week....
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New ASP.NET website launched
A few weeks ago we introduced a beta of a freshly designed http://asp.net website. Today we launched it. Jon, myself, and the team that manages the site took lots of your feedback (lots from the...
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Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page
Sometimes good UX is about being clever. Sometimes it's to make the user happy or smile. However, when the success of your product depends on new, possibly inexperienced users successfully downloading...
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You probably don't need a Twitter client, just learn the hotkeys in New Twitter
It's probably not unfair to call me a Twitter Power User. I use it a lot, it's my favorite Social Networking site and I've written a number of reasonably popular articles on the topic. How To Twitter -...
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VIDEO: The Art of Speaking - with Scott Hanselman
It all started in high school with Musical Theatre. Then it continued when I was teaching as an Adjunct Professor at a State University. I like talking to people. Now I've been doing it for 20 years...
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Good UX in the Wild: A comic book geek returns after twenty years away to a...
Like most folks my age, I grew up reading comic books. I remember the first early printings of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the spring of 1984, long long before they were a big thing, toys, or a...
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Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web
I'm starting to resent Apps like I resented CD-ROMs. I started playing this evil little game called Tiny Tower last week. It's effectively a Sim-Tower-heroin-clone-resource-management game. Every few...
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Link-bait Hacker Slash News Dot Considered Cancerous Request For Call To Action
Considered Harmful Declarative statement opening blog statement. Back away from declarative statement slightly, pivot then double down with even more controversial declarative statement. Insult...
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Your New Year's Resolution - Put an end to spinning rust and buy yourself a SSD
I'm still using the Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 that I built last year. THE most important aspect of that build was not the super-fast processor or the fancy video cards. It was, and continues to be, the...
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