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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
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
Using "ok" as a Project Control Room
2018 By The Numbers
twitter, working blue, tools, blog, microsoft, color, UX, microISV, linguistics, amazon, social network, productivity, javascript, nimbletext, commandline, robots
Convergent versus Divergent modes of thought
twitter, html, working blue, it industry, blog, color, UX, legal, apple, sysadmin, social network, productivity, javascript, sql
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
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
Publishing on Amazon: Lakes Creek Adventures
Productivity Flowchart: 13 years in the making
2016 by the numbers:
6 different ways to run an asp.net core web application
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.
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 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
Mercurial Workflow with Branching
Writing Your First Mercurial Extension
Love Me Two Times
Sweating the Small Stuff
amazon, atwood, blog, [code], commandline, css, google, html, microISV, microsoft, nimbletext, podcast, productivity, sql, sysadmin, tools, UX
NimbleSET 2.0: Death to the VLOOKUP!
Clients From Hell
Two Flies! Bet Now!
The Canine Pyramid
Humans: A Tragedy.
Happy new year 2014
A flowchart of what programmers do at work all day
NimbleText 1.9 -- BoomTown!
Line Endings.
Art of the command-line helper
Slurp up mega-traffic by writing scalable, timeless search-bait
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
So your domain has been stolen. What now?
NimbleText 1.6, Codename Jetboat
Developer UI Done Right: Mercurial Commandline!
Rediscovering the Amstrad CPC 6128
The Correct Order for a First Time Viewing of The Lord Of The Rings
A new era for Android.
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
Custom Errors in ASP.Net MVC: It couldn't be simpler, right?
Where shall we have lunch?
Mercurial workflow for personal projects (with a .net bias)
I see you're using vim. Let me fix that for you.
What then, is b?
SQLike: A simple editor
HOT GUIDS: A hot or not site for guids
Suggested User Experience Improvements for DiffMerge
Original Premise for a road movie
DevShop: The Cool Game that Makes Development Look Fun
HTML5, a 3 minute guide
Windows Search in Japan
Continuous Integration, Plugins and Going Too Far
The Utterly Thorough Guide To Awesome Application Compatibility on Windows 7.
Astounding Hyperlinked Noticeboard
Sometimes, The Better You Program, The Worse You Communicate.
How to get a Free iPhone
10 Simple Rules To Follow In Case Your Software Becomes Self-Aware
Plugins! Plugins! Plugins! It must be TimeSnapper 3.4
A 3 minute guide to embedding IronPython in a C# application
It's 2009 already -- where's my damn internet-based IDE??
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
TimeSnapper hits the local press... and more on Iceland
Babbage and Boole!
Simple Trouble Shooting Application Now Fixes Everything
apple, coffee, commandline, google, hanselman, it industry, javascript, microISV, microsoft, security, sql, tools, UX
Alan Kay on 'The Camel has Two Humps'
The Bluffer's Guide To Yegge: Business Requirements R Bullsh*t
Fixing problems can give you a glimpse of something terrible
Web Tablet: Toward Less Complexity
Sudden TimeSnapper Discount!
Redux: New Synchronisation Idea Overlooked By Microsoft
Visual Studio UX Taskforce, Office UX Taskforce... etc.
How to be Jeff Atwood
Return from an offline sojourn
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
Sample Code From Text-Adventure Game Platforms
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
secretGeek's guide to selecting a cartoon to suit your chosen IT career
TimeSnapper 2.6: Hook It Up
Journey of an idea
Revolutionary (versus Evolutionary) Code Generation
Which came first... the domain model or the human?
My First WPF Application - A visual tour
blog, cartoon, [code], editor, facebook, html, microsoft, nimbletext, social network, sql, tools, UX, visual basic
Go Don Syme!! Go F#!!
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
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
Scoop: Microsoft Expression Suite To Run On Apple Computers!
Microsoft Expression Family... WTF?
Hogwarts: an alternative dictionary.
ATM Thief Busted By Observant Internet Watcher?
Choosing between Apple, Microsoft and Linux
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!
NO ONE IS GOING TO STEAL YOUR BRILLIANT IDEA.
Back Seat Driven Development
TimeSnapper -- Feature Comparison
Scheming on the Pocket PC
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
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
A Girl
Step 1 of 25 to Building a Micro-ISV: Register a Domain
Five More Things You Didn't Need To Know
Top Tips of 2007, part I: Leon's One-Step Guide to Making a Nature Appreciation Film in Africa
Thanks for a genuine belly chuckle, Joel
Gunderloy, Spolsky, Atwood: three big idiots.
atwood, blog, cartoon, education, hanselman, html, ideas rat, microsoft, movie, ocr, productivity, [ruby], UX
10 Websites that would Not work as Wikis
How To Be A Couple Of Micro-ISV People On Opposite Sides of the World
The trouble with "High Priority"
The difference between goals and dreams.
A Kilo of Days Ground
The Truth About Lisp
Time for a rewrite.
PowerTools for Powershell
Why Geeks are Freaks
Microformats: Another 3 min guide i won't be writing
F# -- the 3 minute guide!
blog, [code], color, commandline, css, editor, education, functional, html, it industry, linguistics, microsoft, productivity, tools, UX
What next for the 3 minute guides??
Babysteps in WATIR
Babysteps in PowerShell part deux: Variables! Real Proper Variables!
syntax, lang = 'sweet', 'ruby'
What does XML look like on other planets?
Quick Prototyping Technique
Marked up: Finalists for the 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards
agile, australia, editor, functional, google, it industry, microsoft, nimbletext, productivity, [ruby], security, sql, tdd, tools, UX
Where's my damn robot?
the SecretMaker
Pay Day for the Ideas Rat
html, editor, tools, blog, microsoft, UX, movie, apple, google, ideas rat, hanselman, australia, css
the Best of secretGeek
amazon, blog, color, commandline, html, javascript, methodology, microsoft, nimbletext, ocr, tdd, tools, UX, visual basic
What is so scary about DLINQ?
Mozilla Firefox (the //other// browser)...
Rule Number 1: Give Me Screenshots.
Why is it that so many managers have missed this crucial lesson?
Computers Programmers On TV Shows
Del.icio.us: Procrastination, DHTML, CSS, Design.
Impress your geeky colleagues with clever tips and hidden treasures
Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search
All Consuming
Reporting services -- Tips and tricks
Hiatus Halted
How to be depressed
CitiBank swims with the phishers
Standarditis
So you've got GMail
Your Help is Needed
final thoughts for the week
Graphic design for engineers: the logo
The Where, the Who and the Why of Steve Lombardi
How Microsoft Lost the Joel War
For the Love of God, Enter this Damn Competition Already!
Lowering the ceiling instead of the floor
Writer's Block, Geek-Block, and Procrastination
Three Good Rules
Going Full Circle: Using "Commands"
XPLT: eXtensible Parser Language Transformations
Roy's Competition: Some Suggested Add-Ins for Visual Studio.Net
amazon, blog, color, commandline, editor, games, google, html, ideas rat, linguistics, microsoft, productivity, tdd, tools, UX, visual basic
Email Personality Quiz
Why ".net" is crap.
<Rant topic='Hungarian'>Damn I get mad about stuff!
Technical Writing: 10 Mistakes you don't wanna make
Dogfooding Your Mother-In-Law
The four horsemen of the online apocalypse
An Open Letter to Technical Authors
Between Christmas and New Year
.Net Remoting: the Quick and Dirty Guide
visual basic, editor, microsoft, UX, security, linguistics, tdd, amazon, [code], sql, commandline, functional
Got Rss? Have you? Have you?
SiteMap for secretGeek
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"Dot-Net Awareness" Day!
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