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Give Grandpa and Grandma the gift of an off-site backup of your photos
My buddy Jeff Handley tweeted this nugget of brilliance recently. Every year I give the grandparents DVDs with all of our digital pictures from the year. To them it's a gift. To me it's off-site...
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Living a Microsoft lifestyle using Apple iOS products - Lync, OneNote, Xbox...
Sure, I work for The Man in my day job, but I have an iPhone, a few iPod Touches, and two iPads in my personal mobile life. I have great respect for the Windows Phone 7 UX and I have a Samsung Focus...
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2011 Greatest Hits
I did a "Greatest Hits" blog post in 2008, and since this year is winding down I though it was time for another. Here's what I think were my best blog posts this year. Personal Updated for 2011 -...
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Ten Things To Do to Secure an Important Person's Computer (or even Ashton's...
I have a some friends and friendly acquaintances who are of some bit of note. Not Internet-famous, or even blog-famous like me, I mean actual famous. Like us, celebrities still have phones, Twitter...
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This Developer's Life 2.0.7 - Dinosaurs
You're so old! What a dinosaur! You're using old software and old languages to do old things! Or are you? Scott and Rob talk to David Sokol, Sean Bamforth and Pete Brown about Fortran, DataFlex and...
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Your Blog is The Engine of Community
In a time where this is much gnashing of teeth around the meaning of community, what being on the "inside" vs. the "outside" means, I want to take a moment to remind my fellow blog writers, blog...
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Easy steps to a mobile-friendly responsive design with an embedded YouTube...
I recently did a video with Rob Conery on how to be a better technical speaker and blogged about it. I wanted to put up a site for this video to give people more details and to make it easier for me to...
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Setting a Custom Icon for your External Drives in Windows Explorer
Ok, I like my icons. You arrange your desk perhaps, shuffle papers, I update things with totally unneeded icons. A while back I made, ahem, these awesome Visual Studio Command Prompt and PowerShell...
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An analysis of SOPA and PIPA Protest "Blackout" HTML and CSS techniques
Many popular sites are blacked out today in protest of two acts before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House. Long story short,...
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Abusing the Microsoft Research's Touch Mouse Sensor API SDK with a...
In August I purchased and reviewed the Microsoft Touch Mouse. I still use my Microsoft Arc Mouse more than the touch, initially due to what I felt was dodgy scrolling performance on the Touch Mouse, as...
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Skip Intro - CSS3 is the new Flash
I remember spring of 1996 when FutureSplash Animator came out. That was 16 years ago, youngsters. Our minds were blown. No one had seen a cell-based animation editor before that was so easy. This was...
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Get involved in Open Source today - How to contribute a patch to a GitHub...
It's been over 5Â years since my post how to contribute a patch to an Open Source Project. That post is focused primarily on Subversion as the source control system. If you are using CodePlex and...
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs of Software Development
I've been experimenting with my diet a little and considering a Paleo diet. What an amazing and selfish thing, though, for me to even consider or be able to change my diet in a fundamental way. Only...
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From Concept to Code in 6 hours: Shipping my first Windows Phone App
Warning, this is long. I'll be frank with you, as I always am. I have an iPhone, a number of iPads and I like them fine. I have a Windows Phone that I use occasionally. I know C# but I do not know...
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One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell
For the most part, I'm an ASP.NET developer. I don't need to specify MVC or Web Forms, because it's all One ASP.NET its core. My apps are often hybrids and include not just Web Forms or MVC but also...
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Prompts and Directories - Even Better Git (and Mercurial) with PowerShell
I love PowerShell and spent years and years working with it since it first came out. I've actually got 15 or so pages of PowerShell posts on this blog going way back. PowerShell is insanely powerful. I...
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The Web is the new Terminal: Are you using the Web's Keyboard Shortcuts and...
NUI is OUI, Dear Reader. About eight years ago I blogged about "text mode" and said (if I may be silly and quote myself): "I’m just saying that my Tab,Tab,Tab,Enter will beat your...
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It's 2012 and your kids have an iPhone - Do you know where they are? I do.
The strangest thing just happened. I'm sitting here in a hotel in New Zealand and my phone pops up an alert from a push-to-talk voice chat application I recently installed called Voxer. It's a...
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Supporting high-dpi pixel-dense "Retina" Displays like iPhones or the iPad 3...
I'm loving responsive design and am slowly updating all my websites to support mobile browsers as well as tablets. Currently Hanselman.com (this site), Hanselminutes.com (my weekly podcast),...
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Change Considered Harmful? - The New Visual Studio Look and Feel
DISCLAIMER: This is my opinion. I don't work for the Visual Studio Team. If you write an article about this and quote me as "The Principal Program Manager for Something Major" then you are a silly...
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