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CSS Variables are cool
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Stashy is a Really simple Key Value store
Productivity with Powershell: Grab your agenda from outlook as plain text
What is NimbleText (a story about cheese)
Secrets of Mastering Excel
The Market for Ideas (and is contenteditable really terrible?)
React is NOT ok
Using "ok" as a Project Control Room
NimbleText is now a Machine Learning Platform
How do you get things done?
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I'm .ok you're .ok: introducing folder profiles for bash and powershell
Your photos are a mess! Maybe this PowerShell script can help
Navigating at the command line
Using Computers to Invent New and *Fun* European Style Board Games
The Ultimate Star Wars t-shirt
pushpop, a mental stack manager
Sudoku
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?
Less than 3 days until the Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon.
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The Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon
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Hosting an infinite number of apps in the cloud for free, on your own domains.
How to Left Pad, for real
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npm is not just for node... npm is for EVERYTHING
The Secret Life of Connection Strings In Oracle! (Oracle DBA's Hate Me.)
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The little known beauty of .ensure files
The Laggard's Guide to Getting Started with Asp.net 5 Using Yeoman.
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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.
Which Uri Encoding method should i use in C#/.net?
Writing Your First Mercurial Extension
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.
Pun-a-day service
Love Me Two Times
A console.log() adventure
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Sweating the Small Stuff
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Spaced Repetition Software... for Kids!
Using the commandline to write a book
NimbleSET 2.0: Death to the VLOOKUP!
Hacking Hyperink (aka. changing the font-size of an Epub on Kobo)
How Bundling Doubled The Income of 'NimbleText.com'
Need an idea? Let me give you one: giveneed.com
The dumbest thing that could possibly work
If Time Types were like Spatial Types
Programming The Robot from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
CRUMBS! Commandline navigation tool for Powershell
Extracting a Trello board as markdown
hgs: Manage Lots of Mercurial Projects Simultaneously
You Must Get It!
AddDays: A Very Simple Date Calculator
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Art of the command-line helper
Do *NOT* try this Hacking Script at home
aaron swartz: the early works
Finding (and removing) duplicate files on your hard drive
Harvey, a .net chat server built with RabbitMQ
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kv can remember it for you, wholesale
Hello IT Department
NimbleText 1.6, Codename Jetboat
Developer UI Done Right: Mercurial Commandline!
Rediscovering the Amstrad CPC 6128
Mind-boggling Demo of New Gaming Genre, aka Folder-Based Hangman, aka Fun with Recursion
Got CSV in your javascript? Use agnes.
NimbleText: Origins
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Custom Errors in ASP.Net MVC: It couldn't be simpler, right?
Boring article about fixing a 'Login failed... untrusted domain' issue when connecting to SQL Server.
Test Driven Dentistry Is A Good Thing
The 'less crashy' release of NimbleText
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The NO Visual Studio movement: Compiling .net projects in Notepad++
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Mercurial workflow for personal projects (with a .net bias)
I see you're using vim. Let me fix that for you.
My new product, NimbleText, is live
DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need
What then, is b?
A handy workflow image for newbie mercurial users
Suggested User Experience Improvements for DiffMerge
SQL Style Extensions for C#
Sysi: the ultimate administrators toolkit
The secretGeek Disaster Recovery plan
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Should be purple
Perhaps "Go" is the new Visual Basic
zen-coding: turn those CSS selectors upside down
HTML5, a 3 minute guide
Agile for one: The Personal Story 'Wall' In Action
God No! ...The ReBuilder
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'Outlook style' rules for Subversion
How to get a Free iPhone
Your next text editor is... MetaNote!
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Further proof that testing is for wimps and bad programmers
Drowning in things to do
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My code would suck less if...
A 3 minute guide to embedding IronPython in a C# application
Found Time!
8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.
It's 2009 already -- where's my damn internet-based IDE??
baby steps in microsoft robotics studio...
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Growing Up Geek (A Hanselmeme)
secretGeek at Tech-Ed: "How to build your own Tiny Software Company"
A to Z of Software Methodologies
Fixing problems can give you a glimpse of something terrible
How Can Microsoft Beat Google?
Lost Treasures of the DOS World: tree!
The Virtual Machine Machine and the Virtual Virtual Machine
Visual Studio UX Taskforce, Office UX Taskforce... etc.
Reuse good -- Abstractions better!
Throw New VirtualMachine();
A little "bit" of programming therapy
Behavior Driven Development: As Human As Possible
What To (Really) Do If You Find Out Your Parents Are Using Vista (redux)
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Sample Code From Text-Adventure Game Platforms
Everything that's bad for you is suddenly good for you!
Syntax highlighting of strings
Perfect for lounging
Anonymous Methods: Now that's a dumb name!
sg: as seen in print!
Thought game: What if SQL had a type called 'Operator'
52 great reasons to fail at software
How To Win At Negotiation
secretGeek: Predictions for 2008
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Logo Programming!
F### yeh! i still got it baby!
Idea: Ribbon Bar Item Finder
Revolutionary (versus Evolutionary) Code Generation
Fluidic APIs are stupid... NOT!
Your Brain, And the Effects of Syntax Highlighting
My First WPF Application - A visual tour
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Visual Studio News Channel: Give Hanselman a Go!
How to block websites that kill your productivity.
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Go Don Syme!! Go F#!!
Don't Forget The Caret^ and the $tick
Password Protect Your TimeSnapper Images!
Step 5 of 25 to Building a Micro-ISV: Install traffic monitoring on your web site
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Thou Shalt Have One Exit Point Per Subroutine -- A Monkey Cage Conundrum
General Purpose Programming Language... Good For Nothing?
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A weird casestudy in technical research
World's Simplest Code Generator: implemented in pure Javascript
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Argument Modifiers: 'ref', 'out', 'params' and 'this'
Sorry Visual Basic -- I is through *WITH* YOU!
How to aggregate a bit column
Exec Inline AddIn for Visual Studio 2005 -- Get It Now
Separation Anxiety
do you want a server farm with that bottle of milk?
Faster Than Light -- For Real This Time
Text Files -- What are they good for?
Are We There Yet? Using Circles To Measure Progress
Step 3 of 25 -- Design Your Website
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Found a Commodore 64 on the side of the road
Powershell on Rails -- MonadRail!
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Remove Duplicate Rows From A Text File Using Powershell
Is there a general solution to string templating?
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Remove empty lines from a file using Powershell.
TimeSnapper 2.3: Extract Text Using Optical Character Recognition
Pure CSS method for achieving Right Angle Corners
Step 1 of 25 to Building a Micro-ISV: Register a Domain
TimeSnapper 2.2 -- Auto Popup? That sounds terrible!
How to Sneak .net 2.0 into an organization
What are the coolest XML projects? Really?
Give Your Manager A 500% Productivity Enhancement
In Vista, final step of installation launches YOU!!
The TDS RPC is FUBAR? You don't say.
Deadlocks: What would Feynman do?
On The Importance of Whitespace
A Very Simple .net Model View Controller
The trouble with "High Priority"
Demo: Exec-Inline, an Add-in that executes the currently selected code, immediately
Code Quiz: That Empty Feeling
Thought Game: Duplicate Driven Programming
How to be a programmer
Stop Rolling Your Own CSV Parser!
Boolean Operators Missing From Cell Expressions In Excel?
Gripping Reading, All The Way Through!
F# -- the 3 minute guide!
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syntactic sweeteners, part ][
sweet syntactic sugar
Tech.Ed Sydney
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'
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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How the 'ref' keyword affects the use of objects
Marketing Weasels Who Write Code
Why Worry? (Programmer's Edition)
VB.Net Tip: IIF is a function, not a language feature
Tip o the day: Copy Text from MessageBox/Msgbox
FTL: Faster than Light -- Functional Text Language
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Fajax -- the fake alternative to ajax
Latt blixt tycka om litvak.
Never BCC an Idiot.
seXml: a very dirty little dialect
Hanseldotted
Jonathan Coulton: Geeky Folk Music You Can Download
TODO Driven Development: Build-Integration
Web Hype 2.0
Infinity LIMITed
Eric Sink deserves the Garry Kasparov Medal of Strategic Brilliance!
suggestion for C#.Next: The "aint" operator
The brain is not strongly typed
A Color Gradient Webservice
Another Day for Mort
Simple Example of Using the World's Simplest Code Generator....
Enhance Reporting Services By Including A Function Library
readin tooooo much xml
Usability Rant: Visual Studio .Net
MS Word -- Executive Edition
Hot New Feature!
Lowering the ceiling instead of the floor
Sexy New Development Methodology!
Just keep zooming -- the resolution never degrades.
XPLT: eXtensible Parser Language Transformations
Your New PC Won't Let You Work On ASP.Net?
Constraint Files Explained
.Net Remoting: the Quick and Dirty Guide
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