secretGeek.netFrom 2007-11 back to 2007-03
November, 2007
Bug Eyed VS2008 Guy Freaks Me Out
Fuzzy Search: Check this out and report back please, o lazy web.
Idea: Ribbon Bar Item Finder
Beautiful Code, or rather, Beaut Comments.
Challenge: Changing the stored credentials on 64 instances of IIS every 30 days
SecretGeek: live and dangerous!!
New Sniglet: An Ungument
Revolutionary (versus Evolutionary) Code Generation
Fix and continue in Smalltalk
Who's the customer?
Designer vs Developer
The great big leaky sales funnel: a micro-ISV primer
Fluidic APIs are stupid... NOT!
TimeSnapper Special - 9 More Days
Your Brain, And the Effects of Syntax Highlighting
Which came first... the domain model or the human?
October, 2007
JonGalloway.Equals(Nostradamus)
Brisbane's Independent .NET Consultant
Why Are So Many Dev Tools Orange?
My First WPF Application - A visual tour
blog, cartoon, [code], editor, facebook, html, microsoft, nimbletext, social network, sql, tools, UX, visual basic
Visual Studio News Channel: Give Hanselman a Go!
How to block websites that kill your productivity.
blog, [code], facebook, html, microISV, microsoft, movie, podcast, productivity, robots, social network, tools
Go Don Syme!! Go F#!!
The future of microsoft development
TimeSnapper On Sale: 2 year anniversary special
Don't Forget The Caret^ and the $tick
Q: What's the cleverest kind of code?
Wow! That baby really has its mother's eyes!
Facebook -- what every concerned user needs to know!
WSCG as a Batch File
Transform Your Children Into Computer Programmers With SourceGear
Password Protect Your TimeSnapper Images!
September, 2007
The Inaugural TimeSnapper Professional 'MikeG.Next' Honorary Award Of Linkblogging Excellence
The Principle of Scale: A fundamental lesson they failed to teach us at school
Navigational Spaghetti -- What are your thoughts?
Step 5 of 25 to Building a Micro-ISV: Install traffic monitoring on your web site
amazon, blog, [code], commandline, games, google, legal, life hacks, microISV, microsoft, productivity, sql, sysadmin, tools, UX, working blue
August, 2007
Thou Shalt Have One Exit Point Per Subroutine -- A Monkey Cage Conundrum
Brisbane .Net Developers: Interested in MOSS integration or K2 Workflow?
General Purpose Programming Language... Good For Nothing?
blog, [code], commandline, css, editor, functional, google, html, ideas rat, it industry, javascript, linguistics, microsoft, nimbletext, powershell, regex, [ruby], sql, tools, UX, visual basic, working blue
A weird casestudy in technical research
The Next Mike Gunderloy
Look at all the things I'm NOT doing!
World's Simplest Code Generator: implemented in pure Javascript
blog, [code], color, commandline, css, editor, functional, hanselman, html, ideas rat, javascript, linguistics, microsoft, nimbletext, podcast, powershell, productivity, regex, tools
Argument Modifiers: 'ref', 'out', 'params' and 'this'
Scoop: Microsoft Expression Suite To Run On Apple Computers!
Sorry Visual Basic -- I is through *WITH* YOU!
How to aggregate a bit column
July, 2007
Microsoft Expression Family... WTF?
Hogwarts: an alternative dictionary.
Exec Inline AddIn for Visual Studio 2005 -- Get It Now
Sick Of Being Nagged to Restart, Every 10 Minutes After An Update?
ATM Thief Busted By Observant Internet Watcher?
What a week in source code!
That Shakespeare Loved His Code
apple, blog, google, html, it industry, linguistics, methodology, microsoft, [ruby], security, tools
Wisdom from Atli:
Portable Open Persona
June, 2007
Separation Anxiety
Law of Software Contracts
Use TimeSnapper to Track Your Baldness
do you want a server farm with that bottle of milk?
Diabetes promo ends in 5 minutes
TimeSnapper Diabetes Promotion Ending Soon!
Some Trillion Dollar Problems
Can You Fix My Printer?
Fight Diabetes with TimeSnapper
Choosing between Apple, Microsoft and Linux
Perfect Productivity with TimeSnapper 2.4
TestDriven.net-Gate: Don't Blame Microsoft, Blame Jason Weber
May, 2007
ORM Smackdown!
MicroISV: Step 4 of 25 -- Basic Website Content
agile, blog, editor, education, html, linguistics, microISV, movie, sql, sysadmin, tdd, tools, UX, working blue
Etags? I've never even heard of eTags!
The Yerkes-whatzy law of who now?
Faster Than Light -- For Real This Time
Text Files -- What are they good for?
I'm always the last to know
NO ONE IS GOING TO STEAL YOUR BRILLIANT IDEA.
Translating a little bit of (microsoft) double talk...
The Truth About Attention Deficit Dis... Oh, new mail.
apple, atwood, blog, coffee, commandline, games, google, html, it industry, legal, microISV, microsoft, powershell, security, tools, working blue
tarzan of the source code
Back Seat Driven Development
Can Software Be Like Building Lego?
Silverlight, Apollo... Lock In?
April, 2007
Joel On Metaphors: The Best Developers
New Social Activity Sharing Site: Twatter
Introducing the 'Common Lisp Objection System'
TimeSnapper -- Feature Comparison
An Open Letter To Scott Guthrie.
Zombie-Friendly Pick-To-Light Home Kitchen
Are We There Yet? Using Circles To Measure Progress
Why Accurate Estimations Are Just Not Possible
Scheming on the Pocket PC
Step 3 of 25 -- Design Your Website
agile, [code], commandline, css, editor, functional, google, html, javascript, microISV, microsoft, ocr, patents, powershell, sql, sysadmin, tools, working blue
Knuth on Software Patents
10 "Million-Dollar-Ideas" from secretGeek.net
commandline, css, editor, functional, html, linguistics, microsoft, powershell, [ruby], visual basic, working blue
Found a Commodore 64 on the side of the road
March, 2007
Number 1 Sign Your Software Project Is Doomed
'Reuse' Is Not Usable
blog, color, editor, google, html, ideas rat, it industry, javascript, security, sql, sysadmin, tools, UX, working blue
Damn Lambda
Powershell on Rails -- MonadRail!
amazon, blog, [code], color, commandline, hanselman, html, linguistics, microsoft, podcast, powershell, [ruby], working blue
Remove Duplicate Rows From A Text File Using Powershell
Is there a general solution to string templating?
blog, [code], commandline, html, ideas rat, linguistics, nimbletext, powershell, regex, sql, working blue
Windows Updates Make Me Nervous
How Naming Works At Microsoft
Remove empty lines from a file using Powershell.
A Faster Ruby.
There's Three Ways To Know Anything
Test-Driven Hypocrisy? Who tests the test?
Agile and Test-Driven: A Marriage Made In Hell?
Essential 'Programming' Skills for Non-Programmers
Why Simplicity Pays
ISV: Independent of what?
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