secretGeek.netComplete list of articles (from Sep 2003 to now)
What a long, strange trip it's been.
(See also: all years or all categories)
Meanwhile on the Wiki
CSS Variables are cool
html, tools, podcast, blog, color, UX, microISV, tdd, [code], javascript, nimbletext, ideas rat, css
Stashy is a Really simple Key Value store
Tips For Working From Home
Productivity with Powershell: Grab your agenda from outlook as plain text
2019 By The Numbers
twitter, html, working blue, tools, blog, microsoft, color, microISV, amazon, apple, social network, productivity, javascript, games, australia, css
5 minutes to import CSV to a database: What do you do?
twitter, html, editor, tools, microsoft, UX, microISV, powershell, social network, nimbletext, ideas rat, sql, commandline
Desert Skies - exclusive inside information from the developers
What is NimbleText (a story about cheese)
Secrets of Mastering Excel
The Market for Ideas (and is contenteditable really terrible?)
a html quine
auto play
TimeSnapper for Mac: Beta Testers Needed
React is NOT ok
Using "ok" as a Project Control Room
Meetings: Are They Worth It?
The Visitor Effect
2018 By The Numbers
twitter, working blue, tools, blog, microsoft, color, UX, microISV, linguistics, amazon, social network, productivity, javascript, nimbletext, commandline, robots
Think you're clever? Can you name each of these CASING styles?
NimbleText is now a Machine Learning Platform
I have some feedback for you...
twitter, working blue, blog, microsoft, amazon, sysadmin, social network, javascript, sql, commandline
Convergent versus Divergent modes of thought
How do you get things done?
twitter, html, working blue, agile, editor, it industry, blog, microsoft, UX, legal, security, education, amazon, apple, google, facebook, [code], social network, productivity, games, ideas rat, australia, commandline, functional
Spy Codes: a code booklet to help your little spies
The Book Is Ready
Death to the Passive Voice
I'm .ok you're .ok: introducing folder profiles for bash and powershell
2017 by the Numbers
twitter, tools, blog, microsoft, color, UX, microISV, social network, productivity, nimbletext, ideas rat, functional
Your photos are a mess! Maybe this PowerShell script can help
How to Discuss the Important Things With Your Kids
Navigating at the command line
The value of realistic goals (with data)
How to get in the zone
Publishing on Amazon: Lakes Creek Adventures
Using Computers to Invent New and *Fun* European Style Board Games
Dadding 101: Give Your Kids A Trail of Codes To Break
The Ultimate Star Wars t-shirt
pushpop, a mental stack manager
Productivity Flowchart: 13 years in the making
Sudoku
2016 by the numbers:
Television Bankruptcy
The Joy of Making Simple Edits to Microsoft's Docs
6 different ways to run an asp.net core web application
Have you ever seen the International Space Station?
Teach kids (and adults) to master algebra with DragonBox
Improvements to the Way MessageBox works, in latest Service Pack for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1
Post Slackathon Wrap up
Less than 3 days until the Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon.
twitter, tools, blog, microsoft, microISV, powershell, google, [code], social network, nimbletext, commandline
The Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon
amazon, australia, blog, [code], commandline, facebook, functional, games, google, hanselman, html, it industry, javascript, mercurial, microISV, microsoft, nimbletext, ocr, podcast, powershell, productivity, regex, social network, tools, twitter, UX
Hosting an infinite number of apps in the cloud for free, on your own domains.
How to Left Pad, for real
[code], it industry, javascript, legal, microISV, nimbletext, ocr, security, social network, tools, twitter
Today I Learned
npm is not just for node... npm is for EVERYTHING
Console Is Forever
The Secret Life of Connection Strings In Oracle! (Oracle DBA's Hate Me.)
[code], color, commandline, functional, linguistics, powershell, security, sql, sysadmin, UX, working blue
The little known beauty of .ensure files
The Laggard's Guide to Getting Started with Asp.net 5 Using Yeoman.
html, editor, tools, it industry, blog, microsoft, UX, linguistics, powershell, [code], javascript, hanselman, australia, css, commandline
Persistence Framework for Accepting Nonsense.
Buying a car: A text adventure game.
Dungeon.css: Dungeon Generator
Mercurial Workflow with Branching
Fixing Keyboard Functionality on MacBook Air after Upgrading to Windows 10.
The Spectator Sport of Vendor Topping
Which Uri Encoding method should i use in C#/.net?
In search of brutal honesty
Writing Your First Mercurial Extension
You Feel The Blood Drain From Your Face (A DevOps story)
UPDATE a table using a JOIN to another table (or to itself)
The Zen of Telling Notepad++ That .Config Files are XML
How Businesses Are Actually Structured.
Launching the secretGeek Wiki
How can we do better?
Pun-a-day service
Love Me Two Times
A console.log() adventure
[code], color, commandline, editor, facebook, games, html, javascript, microISV, nimbletext, [ruby], social network, tools, twitter, working blue
Hexaflexagons!
Sweating the Small Stuff
amazon, atwood, blog, [code], commandline, css, google, html, microISV, microsoft, nimbletext, podcast, productivity, sql, sysadmin, tools, UX
What do comments mean?
Spaced Repetition Software... for Kids!
Solving An Air-gapped Traffic Mystery
Using the commandline to write a book
NimbleSET 2.0: Death to the VLOOKUP!
Clients From Hell
Hacking Hyperink (aka. changing the font-size of an Epub on Kobo)
How Bundling Doubled The Income of 'NimbleText.com'
Your First Product
SimCity Drug Wars in the Real World
Two Flies! Bet Now!
Boothby, a personal database
The Nimble Bundle
Need an idea? Let me give you one: giveneed.com
A Dashboard For Everything and Everything on a Dashboard
Internet's Last Classic ASP Website Finally Upgraded
The dumbest thing that could possibly work
If Time Types were like Spatial Types
The Canine Pyramid
Humans: A Tragedy.
ACK!
OfficeQuest... Gamification for the Office Suite
New product launch: NimbleSET
Programming The Robot from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Happy new year 2014
Downtime as a service
The Shape of Your Irrationality
This is why I don't go to nice restaurants any more.
A flowchart of what programmers do at work all day
The Telepresent Man.
Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie.
CRUMBS! Commandline navigation tool for Powershell
Little tool for making Amazon affiliate links
Extracting a Trello board as markdown
hgs: Manage Lots of Mercurial Projects Simultaneously
You Must Get It!
AddDays: A Very Simple Date Calculator
[code], color, commandline, it industry, javascript, microsoft, powershell, productivity, sql, tools
Google caught in a lie.
NimbleText 2.0: More Than Twice The Price!
A Computer Simulation of Creative Work, or 'How To Get Nothing Done'
A Computer Simulation of Creative Work, or 'How To Get Nothing Done'
NimbleText 1.9 -- BoomTown!
Line Endings.
**This** is how you pivot
Art of the command-line helper
Go and read a book.
Slurp up mega-traffic by writing scalable, timeless search-bait
Do *NOT* try this Hacking Script at home
The 'Should I automate it?' Calculator
aaron swartz: the early works
Finding (and removing) duplicate files on your hard drive
Harvey, a .net chat server built with RabbitMQ
[code], color, commandline, css, functional, html, it industry, microsoft, movie, rabbitmq, security, sql, tools, UX
LeonBambrick.com
So your domain has been stolen. What now?
kv can remember it for you, wholesale
Hello IT Department
Dialog Between a Man and His Vista Laptop
NimbleText 1.6, Codename Jetboat
On Task Hoarding and Todo Bankruptcy
Developer UI Done Right: Mercurial Commandline!
Rediscovering the Amstrad CPC 6128
Just Wally
The Correct Order for a First Time Viewing of The Lord Of The Rings
A new era for Android.
Mind-boggling Demo of New Gaming Genre, aka Folder-Based Hangman, aka Fun with Recursion
Got CSV in your javascript? Use agnes.
I went to write down a book name and founded an internet empire instead.
NimbleText: Origins
atwood, blog, [code], commandline, css, editor, html, ideas rat, javascript, linguistics, microISV, microsoft, nimbletext, powershell, productivity, [ruby], social network, sql, toolbar, tools, twitter, UX, visual basic
The Windows 8 Mullet
Introducing Cosby, spontaneous striped background generator
Slides from WDCNZ: Live Coding Asp.net MVC3
MVC 3, "Third Times a Charm" references
Custom Errors in ASP.Net MVC: It couldn't be simpler, right?
Anatomy of a Domain Hijacking, part 2: The Website Who Came In From The Cold
Anatomy of a Domain Hijacking, part 1
secretGeek.net domain has been stolen. The site may go down.
Boring article about fixing a 'Login failed... untrusted domain' issue when connecting to SQL Server.
Coding While You Commute
Test Driven Dentistry Is A Good Thing
The 'less crashy' release of NimbleText
blog, [code], commandline, google, hanselman, linguistics, microISV, microsoft, nimbletext, security, social network, tools, twitter
Rethinking Toolbars in Visual Studio (or any IDE)
Where shall we have lunch?
Setting up email for your microIsv
The NO Visual Studio movement: Compiling .net projects in Notepad++
[code], color, commandline, editor, html, ideas rat, javascript, microISV, nimbletext, productivity, sql, tools, visual basic
ZeroOne: the editor for programmers who think in binary
Mercurial workflow for personal projects (with a .net bias)
I see you're using vim. Let me fix that for you.
The worst recruitment spam I've ever read
A thank you I forgot to say
My new product, NimbleText, is live
Grabbing the free songs of Jonathan Coulton (with Powershell)
atwood, blog, color, commandline, html, microISV, microsoft, nimbletext, powershell, security, tools
Using NimbleSet to compare lists
Wanted: Wiki Lists (dot org)
DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need
JSON Query Languages: 5 special purpose editors
What then, is b?
SQLike: A simple editor
Yet Another BizPlan Generator.
HOT GUIDS: A hot or not site for guids
HOT GUIDS: A hot or not site for guids
How does life get better? One tiny hack at a time.
24 things to do, and 100 things *not* to do (yet) for building a MicroISV
blog, color, commandline, css, google, html, it industry, legal, microISV, social network, sql, sysadmin, tools, twitter
Venture capital won't kill Jeff Atwood, it will only make him Jeffer.
A handy workflow image for newbie mercurial users
Fractal Feedback, a diversion into recreational programming
Hump-Jumping: How the Education of Computer Science can be Saved, err, maybe.
Suggested User Experience Improvements for DiffMerge
SQL Style Extensions for C#
The Movie Hollywood (And My Wife) Doesn't Want You To See: Weekend at Jacko's
Sysi: the ultimate administrators toolkit
Movie: Priest Academy
Inspirational Rat Story
A face-melting DSL that allows programming ON the iPhone (and iPad)
The secretGeek Disaster Recovery plan
atwood, blog, [code], commandline, html, it industry, microsoft, powershell, productivity, security, social network, tools, twitter
Save KNVTn! Before it's too late
The Ultimate Agent of WERF Destruction
The Ultimate Agent of WERF Destruction
The new prisoner's dilemma
Original Premise for a road movie
What's a better game than Devshop?
DevShop: The Cool Game that Makes Development Look Fun
Should be purple
Kitchen Agile
Perhaps "Go" is the new Visual Basic
zen-coding: turn those CSS selectors upside down
Debugging: It's all about finding Albuquerque.
The Real-Time online JQuery Editor
HTML5, a 3 minute guide
Developer Codpieces
Agile for one: The Personal Story 'Wall' In Action
Never work with thick people.
Cosmo: project status panel
Windows Search in Japan
Project Management Zen
Continuous Integration, Plugins and Going Too Far
The Rules of Stand Up
Sydney International Airport: Stupid, Criminal, or Criminally Stupid?
God No! ...The ReBuilder
atwood, blog, [code], commandline, css, editor, education, facebook, google, hanselman, html, [ruby], social network, sql, twitter, working blue
Matt, The Office Mortar
'Outlook style' rules for Subversion
Really deep linking: Url + regex
hExcel -- A Hexagonal Spreadsheet
Is the remote control a thing of the past?
The Utterly Thorough Guide To Awesome Application Compatibility on Windows 7.
Astounding Hyperlinked Noticeboard
Three Questions About Each Bug You Find
Recursing over the Pareto Principle...
Sometimes, The Better You Program, The Worse You Communicate.
A Non Warning, from Windows XP
In the enterprise, nothing is what it seems
How to get a Free iPhone
10 Simple Rules To Follow In Case Your Software Becomes Self-Aware
Your next text editor is... MetaNote!
apple, blog, [code], color, commandline, editor, google, hanselman, ideas rat, microsoft, podcast, powershell, toolbar, tools
Further proof that testing is for wimps and bad programmers
Drowning in things to do
apple, blog, [code], google, html, it industry, microISV, productivity, social network, tools, twitter
Small Moments in Software Philosophy
Differentiating between environments within SQL Server Management Studio
My code would suck less if...
"Architect" is a swear word.
Plugins! Plugins! Plugins! It must be TimeSnapper 3.4
Test First Development and Making a Cake
A 3 minute guide to embedding IronPython in a C# application
Low Frustration Tolerance: Curse and Blessing
Handy cheat sheet for Visual Source Safe
Found Time!
8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.
The Deadly Cycle of Meetingitis.
Can You Cure the Copy/Paste Disease?
Don't make 'readonly' fields less readable
It's 2009 already -- where's my damn internet-based IDE??
Give and Take in the Software Industry
apple, atwood, blog, coffee, color, commandline, editor, education, food, functional, google, html, it industry, legal, mercurial, microsoft, productivity, regex, sql, sysadmin, tdd, tools, visual basic, working blue
4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity)
baby steps in microsoft robotics studio...
apple, [code], commandline, editor, education, functional, games, html, linguistics, microsoft, podcast, powershell, productivity, robots, sql, sysadmin, tdd, tools, UX
Hang in there, little buddy
Worst. Bug. Ever.
IT Industry Revolutionised By Labour Saving Device
An Open, Federated Award Ceremony
3 differences between 'Small Business' and 'Enterprise'
How important is the problem of whether or not P=NP?
TimeSnapper hits the local press... and more on Iceland
MVC Zen Garden
Is Corporate IT a form of emotional abuse?
Java Powered Internet? WTF?
Life is Upstream
TimeSnapper 3.3, and News From Iceland
Growing Up Geek (A Hanselmeme)
Is that all you've got!?
TimeSnapper 3.2: What are you afraid of?
Babbage and Boole!
Downloadable Slide-decks: "Build your own Tiny Software Company"/"F# eye for the C# guy"
Simple Trouble Shooting Application Now Fixes Everything
Simple Trouble Shooting Application Now Fixes Everything
apple, coffee, commandline, google, hanselman, it industry, javascript, microISV, microsoft, security, sql, tools, UX
secretGeek at Tech-Ed: "How to build your own Tiny Software Company"
Bambrick versus Hanselman: Bring it!
The Greatest Chalk Talk Known To Man: 'Better than a license to print money: Build Your Own Tiny Software Company'
Alan Kay on 'The Camel has Two Humps'
is the music inside the piano?
The Bluffer's Guide To Yegge: Business Requirements R Bullsh*t
Prototype Ready for Launch
Idea: a poor man's eye-tracking heatmap for win forms
'The Register' seems to have plagiarised Mary Jo Foley
A magic goal for software businesses
A to Z of Software Methodologies
TimeSnapper in Music!
Fixing problems can give you a glimpse of something terrible
Web Tablet: Toward Less Complexity
Do they store the code for TFS in TFS?
Sudden TimeSnapper Discount!
How Can Microsoft Beat Google?
TimeSnapper 3.1: Attack of the the Red/Green Stripes
21 tools used in our MicroISV
Lost Treasures of the DOS World: tree!
The Virtual Machine Machine and the Virtual Virtual Machine
Should Linq To Sql Go "Open Source"?
Redux: New Synchronisation Idea Overlooked By Microsoft
New Synchronisation Idea Overlooked By Microsoft Live team
Visual Studio UX Taskforce, Office UX Taskforce... etc.
How to be Jeff Atwood
Reuse good -- Abstractions better!
Word of the day: Upsert
Return from an offline sojourn
Leaky Abstractions? Try Asp.Net!
A truly original thought
Throw New VirtualMachine();
Undo, redo, predo, preundo
A little "bit" of programming therapy
Coding Koan: the power of one
Behavior Driven Development: As Human As Possible
What To (Really) Do If You Find Out Your Parents Are Using Vista (redux)
atwood, blog, [code], google, hanselman, html, it industry, legal, microISV, microsoft, security, sql, tools, UX
What To Do If You Find Out Your Parents Are Using Vista
Sample Code From Text-Adventure Game Platforms
TimeSnapper 3.0 -- an interactive, bubbling cauldron of possibilities
Be warned: the laptop compubody sock is out there
Everything that's bad for you is suddenly good for you!
Everything I know about Code Reviews I learnt from Star Wars (and JCooney)
Syntax highlighting of strings
Google AppEngine: evil virus or viral evil?
Perfect for lounging
Meeting Frustration, Chaos and Despair Head On. And loving it.
Workflow software: I'm calling the bluff.
3 Types of Argument
F# Eye for the C# guy
Anonymous Methods: Now that's a dumb name!
Who Would You Back? Really?
More about the wiki adventure game...
(Some) Computer Technicians Are Creepy
Wiki as Text Adventure Game
Your Brain Is In 10 Kinds of Trouble
amazon, apple, atwood, blog, food, games, google, html, it industry, linguistics, podcast, productivity, UX
Organizational Tools for different scope and time
A reflection on hate week.
sg: as seen in print!
TimeSnapper 2.7: Word Clouds reveal your computing lifestyle!
Mega-Million Dollar Idea: Diamonds@Home
Thought game: What if SQL had a type called 'Operator'
Stop being walked. Start walking.
secretGeek's guide to selecting a cartoon to suit your chosen IT career
NDepend, Cyclic Dependencies, and the Shroud of Turing
One Handgun Per Child
52 great reasons to fail at software
How To Win At Negotiation
51 Core Abilities of Successful Software
secretGeek: Predictions for 2008
apple, [code], facebook, functional, google, ideas rat, it industry, linguistics, microsoft, productivity, social network
Christmas Roundup
Logo Programming!
F#: More Mandelbrot Madness
F### yeh! i still got it baby!
How To Re-Start A Blog
Nerdgasm 101
TimeSnapper 2.6: Hook It Up
Journey of an idea
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?
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!
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
TimeSnapper 2.3: Extract Text Using Optical Character Recognition
Step 2 of 25 to Building a Micro-ISV: Reliable Hosting
australia, blog, education, google, legal, microISV, microsoft, ocr, patents, [ruby], sql, sysadmin, tools, UX
Pure CSS method for achieving Right Angle Corners
Podcasts I like
Lifelogging? Think TimeSnapper.com!
Eight Photos of the new arrival
A Girl
Step 1 of 25 to Building a Micro-ISV: Register a Domain
TimeSnapper 2.2 -- Auto Popup? That sounds terrible!
25 steps for building a Micro-ISV
Five More Things You Didn't Need To Know
How to Sneak .net 2.0 into an organization
What percent of normal people have the .net framework installed?
Download It Now! Exec Inline: A VS2003 add-in that lets you run a chunk of code
Three Laws of Software Development
Programming News: Aggregated
Anxiety is a good thing.
Top Tips of 2007, part I: Leon's One-Step Guide to Making a Nature Appreciation Film in Africa
Predictions for 2007
Thanks for a genuine belly chuckle, Joel
New Year's Resolution: Build Your Own Micro ISV!
What are the coolest XML projects? Really?
Download NextAction: Updated
Give Your Manager A 500% Productivity Enhancement
In Vista, final step of installation launches YOU!!
The Macho School Of Programming
The Project Never Ends
The TDS RPC is FUBAR? You don't say.
Gunderloy, Spolsky, Atwood: three big idiots.
atwood, blog, cartoon, education, hanselman, html, ideas rat, microsoft, movie, ocr, productivity, [ruby], UX
Deadlocks: What would Feynman do?
Hey idiot, I've got toothache. BOO!
And Microsoft has Won
blog, coffee, commandline, functional, google, html, linguistics, microsoft, powershell, productivity, [ruby]
10 Websites that would Not work as Wikis
Sexy New Version: TimeSnapper 2.1, we finally grow up
How To Be A Couple Of Micro-ISV People On Opposite Sides of the World
Passwords in Sql Server 2000 are Case Insensitive by default -- WTF?
Never Pay For Application Development Services Again
Quiz Show for John
On The Importance of Whitespace
Reasons for a headache
Whose Month is it anyway?
Your Next Action is: Download NextAction!
A Very Simple .net Model View Controller
The trouble with "High Priority"
The difference between goals and dreams.
Concurrency Bug in all editions of Visual Studio
Demo: Exec-Inline, an Add-in that executes the currently selected code, immediately
Ruby versus .Net? If Languages (and IDE's) were Vehicles... what would you be driving?
Switching off the OS
Quick Tip: Show Shortcut Keys in Visual Studio
Code Quiz: That Empty Feeling
A Kilo of Days Ground
ShinyPower Now Opensource
Moveable Modal and a different kind of 'Modal' form
Unlikely to fill Gmail account before I die
Goodbye DLL Hell, hello Security Hell.
Is 'Agile' a religion? (or merely a cult)
Annotating Your Code with Simple Tests
Thought Game: Duplicate Driven Programming
Realtime CSS Editor -- with thanks to SquareFree.
The Truth About Lisp
Transparency In Vista
How to be a programmer
Time for a rewrite.
11 Tools for Database Versioning
Stop Rolling Your Own CSV Parser!
TimeSnapper 2 Goes Live!
Australia in a state of mourning
The absolute most fun activity in the world
PowerTools for Powershell
Why Geeks are Freaks
Microformats: Another 3 min guide i won't be writing
Boolean Operators Missing From Cell Expressions In Excel?
Gripping Reading, All The Way Through!
Sql Down Under Code Camp
F# -- the 3 minute guide!
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syntactic sweeteners, part ][
BabySteps In WPF And XAML
sweet syntactic sugar
Momentum as a substitute for Quality
Tech.Ed Sydney
Concurrent Tautologys (all happening together at once)
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What next for the 3 minute guides??
Joel asked: Can your language do this?
Babysteps in WATIR
What is JSON: the 3 minute JSON Tutorial
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Why You Need a Domestic Robot
3 Examples from the Future of CSS
W3C to Support 'Web 2.0' concept of 'tags'
<Strike>G-MAIL is dead!</Strike>
Web 2.0: Something's Missing
Babysteps in PowerShell part deux: Variables! Real Proper Variables!
syntax, lang = 'sweet', 'ruby'
An Absolute Beginner's Babysteps In PowerShell...
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ShinyPower!
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XML isn't a mark-up language.
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Dragging and Dropping are not a good idea.
You Learn Something (Scary) Every Day
DotCom versus Web 2.0
How To Read "Functional Programming For The Rest of Us" For The Rest of Us
4 Lazy Ways To Stop Yourself Being Lazy
Brisbane Thai Restaurant
KeyTraino
You Will Set Goals!
Very detailed and serious comparison of functional and imperative programming styles
How the 'ref' keyword affects the use of objects
What does 'yep' mean, exactly?
The Top 0 Things You Should Know About Nothing
A friend is getting into .Net -- what's the best thing to read??
Collation Is Evil
6 Tools for Documentation++
Visual Poetry Studio 2005
Why Worry? (Ajax Edition)
Marketing Weasels Who Write Code
ReDim for C#, using Generics
Amphetamines for Query Analyser
Why Worry? (Programmer's Edition)
New Invention: The EzyFridge
How the Australian Tax Changes Will Affect Your 'Take Home' Pay
VB.Net Tip: IIF is a function, not a language feature
TimeSnapper 2.0 is near to completion
The Actual Minimum Every Gmail User Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (Excuses welcome)
a secretSneak to the quiet readers of secretGeek...
how reddit encourages mediocrity.
Tip o the day: Copy Text from MessageBox/Msgbox
VS2005 Tip: Which file am I working on?
FTL: Faster than Light -- Functional Text Language
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Fajax -- the fake alternative to ajax
Latt blixt tycka om litvak.
Dirty Larry
VB 6 Developers, lend me an err...
Ultra Mobile PC: A Boon to Private Health
Early Screenshot Technology
Never BCC an Idiot.
Big In Japan!
A moment to reflect
Get On Up!
Damn that's one ugly customer!
10 Ways to boost the Zen of Paint: Suggested improvements in MS Paint
I think you're coming back for more than just the hunting
Thought Game
Discoverable feeds for the not-so-liberal
seXml: a very dirty little dialect
What does XML look like on other planets?
Miscommunication Grows Faster than Communication
The Face of Ruby on Rails
Quick Prototyping Technique
How Contextual Help Works in Visual Studio 2003
Launch the Code Editor on startup
Printing 'Console' Screenshots? Save your Toner/Ink
Marked up: Finalists for the 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards
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Tip: MS Paint Power User -- Setting Line Thickness
Tip: Don't Want Outlook Notification About EVERY email?
Hanseldotted
Thought for the day
rescued by timeSnapper
Copy, Copy, Copy, Paste: PowerToy Needed.
Where's my damn robot?
the SecretMaker
It's raining B&B's
Suspicious Mail
Unposted thoughts and SkunkWorks
The True Meaning of Xmas
No shortage of Punny Titles over at the Monad centre
TimeSnapper Supports Multiple Monitors!
Microsoft to give away Windows for Free... (maybe)
Elevator Pitch of the Century!!
Forget Intellisense: I want IntelliSEARCH
FU: Findability precedes Usability.
Help Needed with a little .Net function...
Lessons from Amazon referrals
Kitchen KanBan: Some 'Life Hacks' I want
VS 2003: Macros needed
Some Recent Picks...
Conway's Game of Life (in Javascript)
Obstacles To International Development
TimeSnapper.com: free download
Essential Ajax Resources pt I
Software Hurts The Mind
Mailbox Size Limits: Gotta Love Em!
Let's Go Right Ahead
Pay Day for the Ideas Rat
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Ten Goods Deeds A Blogger Can Perform
Nagging Little Imbecile
Is MS Windows ready for the desktop?
"What's your solution?"
Comparison of three Ajax Portals
Sony, Spawn of Satan
Five Ways To Play Nice with 'Live.Com'
live.com... cactus.com?
Passfaces... Very memorable
Joe Celko, Bill of Materials, hierarchical nested trees, data explosion...
Nitpicking Yahoo Mail
Messenger Disgruntlement
The Search Ends Here
Over-groomed baboon baby
Jonathan Coulton: Geeky Folk Music You Can Download
the Best of secretGeek
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Go Al!!
TODO Driven Development: Build-Integration
Web Hype 2.0
Gmail autosaves your drafts
What is so scary about DLINQ?
LINQ love
AJAX website allows surgeons to work from home
Infinity LIMITed
recycling the mental cache
Tough Crowd
Eric Sink deserves the Garry Kasparov Medal of Strategic Brilliance!
suggestion for C#.Next: The "aint" operator
Brisbane .NET Developer Position
This Comptometric Age
The Real Thing
Schnippetize your life
Start Dot Com Slash Three
frank = loud loud shirt
Holes In Team Foundation Server Are Good Things (Teched 2005 Australia)
Team Foundation Server: Check-in Policies
Hey Fred -- I'm off to Tech-Ed.
Problem Fixed in the Next Version!
The brain is not strongly typed
10 Line Marvel: 3 column CSS only layout (No tables)
Free Money For Doin What You Love
Thus Spake Gaksloope: The future of browse and code
Fun Color-Pickin Background Image Blend Thing
Winderrrr XP
Delpino -- Last Ever Show
Gradient Maker
A Color Gradient Webservice
Another Day for Mort
MS Paint //Master Class//
Mozilla Firefox (the //other// browser)...
New Company, New Language, Same IDE...
Fake Workplaces Of The Internet
Tip O The Day: Quit Buggin Me, Messenger.
Kindly Shut Up About 'Best Practices'
Sexy Tool for Fast, Active Coding -- Any Language!
Speed Surfer? Get a 'Local' Homepage
on leaving a job...
I am well chuffed
VB,C#: Me My This That
Hot .Net Tip: This will save you a lot of time
Any minute now...
Treat Your Eyes
Today's HOT Dos Tip...
Can You Lower The Quality To Save On Costs?
Simple Example of Using the World's Simplest Code Generator....
Online petition for less on-line petitions.
Act Local, Blog Global
The World's Simplest Code Generator
Software Idea: Automatic ScreenShot Journal
Whack Your Boss
Cool Company Seeks Java and .net IT Graduates in Sydney
Hey Brisbaner! Want to join a Superfast, Wireless Peer To Peer Community?
AJAX And The EARWAX
BAD NEWS I'M AFRAID
Rule Number 1: Give Me Screenshots.
Why is it that so many managers have missed this crucial lesson?
SO... Should I waste my time getting an MCAD? (I hear you ask)
Spolsky Madness!
Enhance Reporting Services By Including A Function Library
Push a Bamboo Shoot Under Your Fingernails If You Use Windows Every Day And Didn't Already Know This Simple Fact
I'm 13 percent of the way there.
readin tooooo much xml
Use Your Instant Messenger To Query Amazon
Computers Programmers On TV Shows
Too Many Damn Arrows in VS.Net!
Visual Basic 6: Going... Going... Gone...
Four Thoughts For Friday
Blogging Map of Brisbane
Are you seeking a .Net Role in Brisbane or Sydney?
Can Microsoft Reporting Services retrieve data from Oracle?
Dreaded Return of the Marquee Tag!
When will VB get multi-line comments?
Usability in Visual Studio: Further Nitpickings of a Nitwit
IE7! -- how exciting! (note false enthusiasm)
Ancient Chinese Wisdom about Blogging, about Slashdot, about Scoble, about...
Sure beats Northwind.
You know your query is getting a little intense when...
The horror, the horror... that is cubicle coffee.
Usability Rant: Visual Studio .Net
SQL Server Enterprise Manager Tip: Printing Diagrams
Okay it's been ten minutes, where's my damn yacht!
Not So Stunning Sentences
I liked secretGeek before he was just a corporate sell out
Yep, here's your problem.
The Future of Music, MP3s and Moods. Or not.
Del.icio.us: Procrastination, DHTML, CSS, Design.
Development While You Wait
Impress your geeky colleagues with clever tips and hidden treasures
Goals List for 2005
Hey! This is your chance!
Wicked Podcast Update
My Inaugral Podcast!!
Christmas at the <a href='http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/'>Scoble</a> Household!
CODE QUIZ!
Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search
Man Names His First Born Child: 'Blog'
Dirty Scoble?
Faster than the speed of blog
<i>SOFT</i>ware is **SOFT** Get it, monkey?
The Lord of the Keys
Stepping out of Luddite Land
Save Dog as Virtual Chicken
Coder to Developer: to the rescue again
Stuckness: other Delicious news
43 Folders...And November 3
All Consuming
Reporting services -- Tips and tricks
A Gmail Wiki.
Sometimes you frustrate me, Mrs. Reporting Services.
Google.RumourCount += 1
Hiatus Halted
How to be depressed
Messagebox Marketing
Winnable Solitaire: Sink or Swim?
Nomenclature 2 Rethinkify
CitiBank swims with the phishers
Need a definition? Use a dictionary, not Google.
Clubbing the Crystal Dodo
The MVP Program Just Went Downhill :-)
Standarditis
A short note about Albert Einstein
All the software's a stage
'1954: A time when men mowed the grass wearing a tie.'
Company-Wide Memo
A favelet, an email, a web service
The 3rd of the month -- Hey! it's backup day!
What is a geek?
Looking for a gmail invite?
So you've got GMail
Your Help is Needed
Beloved Morons
final thoughts for the week
Lutz Roeder's Reflector Is Magic
MS Word -- Executive Edition
Lost In Translation
Yet Another Outlook Rule
More Animal Monitoring
Regex versus Messenger
Word of the Day: Mobilion number
Signs of a bad web developer
Graphic design for engineers: the logo
Can you Nest Enums?
Question: Which code snippet is "better"?
Programmer's Purgatory
Hey Mike!
Dirty Plagiarist
Nobody Can Eat Fifty Eggs.
Why Am I Here?
The Where, the Who and the Why of Steve Lombardi
I must strangle someone.
How do they <i>do</i> that?
Using Books for Support and Technical Elevation
Triggers: Very Good, or Very Bad?
Congratulations Greece!
A Case of the Scobles
Beer Game
Radio DJ is to Rockgod, as SysAdmin is to Developer
Hungarian Polarity
How Microsoft Lost the Joel War
MMMS: A Map of My Mind-Space
The um, Leon Test?
For the Love of God, Enter this Damn Competition Already!
Hot New Feature!
Lowering the ceiling instead of the floor
Y2-GAY: Government Approves Third Gender; DBA's Panic!
Embedded-Sql without Sql-Injection
Microsoft Crumbles Under Blogging Pressure
Einstein Quiz -- Winners Announced
Fat Kid's PIN is '2751'
A Gift Bag For New Programmers...
Writer's Block, Geek-Block, and Procrastination
Two-Way Date-String Conversion (in .Net)
VOIP (Voice Over Internet-Protocol), officially real!
Sexy New Development Methodology!
Three Good Rules
Getting A Longhorn Of Your Own
R.I.P. Loki.
Three -=FAT=- tips
Ask Eric
I have been bribed, so now I will blog.
Just keep zooming -- the resolution never degrades.
You are NOT inadequate.
Shake that keyboard baby!
Let Us Welcome 'The Nemo Fish'
Going Full Circle: Using "Commands"
XPLT: eXtensible Parser Language Transformations
Your New PC Won't Let You Work On ASP.Net?
Roy's Competition: Some Suggested Add-Ins for Visual Studio.Net
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Excel-Lite: Hey coder! This spreadsheet's for you!
I am not worthy
Riddle me this, batman.
Stupid Code To The Rescue!
How to match a string value to its equivalent Enum value.
the unbearable lightness of being Delpino
Two security hacks i'm looking forward to:
Things I miss about London
AspCompat='True'
Royo on TV?
Double-posting comments: blame the software!
A few changes on the way
I don't speak good really
A Handy Little Button
Email Personality Quiz
Programmer's Creed: The Mark of Quality
Test Your Security
Court Fines Microsoft over Anti-Competitive Calculator
Beware of this email
Cubicle Messages
Never Trust A SysAdmin
The Toilet Reservation System is finally online
Why ".net" is crap.
<Rant topic='Hungarian'>Damn I get mad about stuff!
I'm rich!
'Try again after midnight'? Yeh, right!
Technical Writing: 10 Mistakes you don't wanna make
Dogfooding Your Mother-In-Law
The four horsemen of the online apocalypse
It's the Little Things that Sh*t Me Most
Live Mars Feed!
Anti-Trust: bad geek movie
How **Not** to win friends
Rory Blyth style shout out to my homies
Nasty Tricksy Microsoft MVP Awards
The Animated Woody Allen
Why blogging is dangerous
Excel VBA: We hates it! We hates it! We hates it for ever and ever!
ASP and the Tower of Babel
Lessons I have learnt
LOTR: ROTK
Einstein Quiz
Web Snob
An Open Letter to Technical Authors
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Visual Basic Professionals versus C++ Professionals
Constraint Files Explained
Who Plays Golf?
Between Christmas and New Year
.Net Remoting: the Quick and Dirty Guide
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Following links can be dangerous...
Don't you 'Dare' insult Microsoft
Definitive .Net and VB.Net Links
Ward Cunningham Joins Microsoft
It's Not Saddam
Geeks Are Good Talkers
Got Rss? Have you? Have you?
Technical Year In review
It's My Future
Programming Security
SiteMap for secretGeek
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Common Windows Shortcuts
Network Stuff
Underground XML
Encrapulation Considered Harmful
How To Revise a Dog Ugly Manuscript
The Complete Software Lifecycle
Visual Studio .Net Tips
Technical Writing: breadth first with iteration.
Smartjelly Improvements
"Dot-Net Awareness" Day!
Dot Net Rookie Mistakes
secretGeek now syndicated!
Blog Roll...
About 'secretGeek'
Seth Godin dream
TS Eliot
Release Early Release Often
Traffic Floods In!
How to write a novel
Recent Books
Business 2 Business Bullshit.
Recent Albums
Refactoring With Whidbey
Twitching on Fraser Isle
Essential Software for Geeks and Power Browsers
SCIENTIST RECEIVES RESPONSE TO INTERGALACTIC EMAIL
The secretGeek Mailing List
10 Links For Improving Web Site Quality
Colour Table
French Archaeologists Find First Website
Defensive Programming
Privacy Policy
Lessons From Bill Gates
Cultural Ignorance Comes at a Price
The Lost Art of Batch Programming
Future Articles
GeekBlock
What a long, strange trip it's been.
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