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CSS Variables are cool
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Stashy is a Really simple Key Value store
2019 By The Numbers
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TimeSnapper for Mac: Beta Testers Needed
2018 By The Numbers
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Think you're clever? Can you name each of these CASING styles?
I have some feedback for you...
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Convergent versus Divergent modes of thought
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How do you get things done?
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Spy Codes: a code booklet to help your little spies
2017 by the Numbers
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The Ultimate Star Wars t-shirt
Productivity Flowchart: 13 years in the making
2016 by the numbers:
The Joy of Making Simple Edits to Microsoft's Docs
Less than 3 days until the Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon.
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The Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon
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npm is not just for node... npm is for EVERYTHING
The Laggard's Guide to Getting Started with Asp.net 5 Using Yeoman.
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Mercurial Workflow with Branching
Launching the secretGeek Wiki
Sweating the Small Stuff
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Solving An Air-gapped Traffic Mystery
Hacking Hyperink (aka. changing the font-size of an Epub on Kobo)
How Bundling Doubled The Income of 'NimbleText.com'
Internet's Last Classic ASP Website Finally Upgraded
Humans: A Tragedy.
Happy new year 2014
A flowchart of what programmers do at work all day
Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie.
CRUMBS! Commandline navigation tool for Powershell
Little tool for making Amazon affiliate links
NimbleText 2.0: More Than Twice The Price!
Line Endings.
Art of the command-line helper
aaron swartz: the early works
On Task Hoarding and Todo Bankruptcy
Developer UI Done Right: Mercurial Commandline!
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
I went to write down a book name and founded an internet empire instead.
NimbleText: Origins
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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
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.
The 'less crashy' release of NimbleText
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Rethinking Toolbars in Visual Studio (or any IDE)
ZeroOne: the editor for programmers who think in binary
A thank you I forgot to say
Grabbing the free songs of Jonathan Coulton (with Powershell)
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DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need
JSON Query Languages: 5 special purpose editors
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
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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
The secretGeek Disaster Recovery plan
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The Ultimate Agent of WERF Destruction
Original Premise for a road movie
Kitchen Agile
Debugging: It's all about finding Albuquerque.
The Real-Time online JQuery Editor
HTML5, a 3 minute guide
Never work with thick people.
Windows Search in Japan
Continuous Integration, Plugins and Going Too Far
God No! ...The ReBuilder
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Matt, The Office Mortar
Really deep linking: Url + regex
The Utterly Thorough Guide To Awesome Application Compatibility on Windows 7.
In the enterprise, nothing is what it seems
10 Simple Rules To Follow In Case Your Software Becomes Self-Aware
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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Differentiating between environments within SQL Server Management Studio
My code would suck less if...
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
8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.
Give and Take in the Software Industry
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An Open, Federated Award Ceremony
How important is the problem of whether or not P=NP?
TimeSnapper hits the local press... and more on Iceland
MVC Zen Garden
Growing Up Geek (A Hanselmeme)
Downloadable Slide-decks: "Build your own Tiny Software Company"/"F# eye for the C# guy"
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'
The Bluffer's Guide To Yegge: Business Requirements R Bullsh*t
Idea: a poor man's eye-tracking heatmap for win forms
'The Register' seems to have plagiarised Mary Jo Foley
TimeSnapper in Music!
Fixing problems can give you a glimpse of something terrible
Web Tablet: Toward Less Complexity
21 tools used in our MicroISV
The Virtual Machine Machine and the Virtual Virtual Machine
Should Linq To Sql Go "Open Source"?
Visual Studio UX Taskforce, Office UX Taskforce... etc.
How to be Jeff Atwood
Return from an offline sojourn
Leaky Abstractions? Try Asp.Net!
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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Everything that's bad for you is suddenly good for you!
Everything I know about Code Reviews I learnt from Star Wars (and JCooney)
Google AppEngine: evil virus or viral evil?
More about the wiki adventure game...
(Some) Computer Technicians Are Creepy
Wiki as Text Adventure Game
Your Brain Is In 10 Kinds of Trouble
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A reflection on hate week.
sg: as seen in print!
Stop being walked. Start walking.
NDepend, Cyclic Dependencies, and the Shroud of Turing
52 great reasons to fail at software
How To Win At Negotiation
Logo Programming!
F#: More Mandelbrot Madness
F### yeh! i still got it baby!
How To Re-Start A Blog
Nerdgasm 101
Bug Eyed VS2008 Guy Freaks Me Out
Fuzzy Search: Check this out and report back please, o lazy web.
Idea: Ribbon Bar Item Finder
Revolutionary (versus Evolutionary) Code Generation
Fix and continue in Smalltalk
The great big leaky sales funnel: a micro-ISV primer
Which came first... the domain model or the human?
JonGalloway.Equals(Nostradamus)
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#!!
Q: What's the cleverest kind of code?
WSCG as a Batch File
Transform Your Children Into Computer Programmers With SourceGear
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
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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The Next Mike Gunderloy
Look at all the things I'm NOT doing!
World's Simplest Code Generator: implemented in pure Javascript
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Sorry Visual Basic -- I is through *WITH* YOU!
How to aggregate a bit column
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
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Portable Open Persona
Law of Software Contracts
do you want a server farm with that bottle of milk?
TimeSnapper Diabetes Promotion Ending Soon!
Fight Diabetes with TimeSnapper
TestDriven.net-Gate: Don't Blame Microsoft, Blame Jason Weber
ORM Smackdown!
MicroISV: Step 4 of 25 -- Basic Website Content
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Etags? I've never even heard of eTags!
Faster Than Light -- For Real This Time
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.
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Can Software Be Like Building Lego?
Introducing the 'Common Lisp Objection System'
An Open Letter To Scott Guthrie.
Scheming on the Pocket PC
Number 1 Sign Your Software Project Is Doomed
'Reuse' Is Not Usable
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Powershell on Rails -- MonadRail!
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Is there a general solution to string templating?
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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?
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
Lifelogging? Think TimeSnapper.com!
25 steps for building a Micro-ISV
Five More Things You Didn't Need To Know
Download It Now! Exec Inline: A VS2003 add-in that lets you run a chunk of code
Programming News: Aggregated
Thanks for a genuine belly chuckle, Joel
New Year's Resolution: Build Your Own Micro ISV!
What are the coolest XML projects? Really?
In Vista, final step of installation launches YOU!!
Gunderloy, Spolsky, Atwood: three big idiots.
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Deadlocks: What would Feynman do?
Hey idiot, I've got toothache. BOO!
And Microsoft has Won
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Sexy New Version: TimeSnapper 2.1, we finally grow up
Whose Month is it anyway?
The trouble with "High Priority"
Switching off the OS
A Kilo of Days Ground
Goodbye DLL Hell, hello Security Hell.
Is 'Agile' a religion? (or merely a cult)
Annotating Your Code with Simple Tests
The Truth About Lisp
Time for a rewrite.
11 Tools for Database Versioning
Stop Rolling Your Own CSV Parser!
Australia in a state of mourning
PowerTools for Powershell
Why Geeks are Freaks
Sql Down Under Code Camp
F# -- the 3 minute guide!
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BabySteps In WPF And XAML
Concurrent Tautologys (all happening together at once)
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Babysteps in WATIR
3 Examples from the Future of CSS
ShinyPower!
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XML isn't a mark-up language.
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KeyTraino
A friend is getting into .Net -- what's the best thing to read??
6 Tools for Documentation++
a secretSneak to the quiet readers of secretGeek...
VS2005 Tip: Which file am I working on?
Big In Japan!
A moment to reflect
Discoverable feeds for the not-so-liberal
What does XML look like on other planets?
Quick Prototyping Technique
Tip: MS Paint Power User -- Setting Line Thickness
Tip: Don't Want Outlook Notification About EVERY email?
Hanseldotted
the SecretMaker
Suspicious Mail
Unposted thoughts and SkunkWorks
FU: Findability precedes Usability.
Software Hurts The Mind
Pay Day for the Ideas Rat
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Ten Goods Deeds A Blogger Can Perform
Nagging Little Imbecile
"What's your solution?"
Sony, Spawn of Satan
Five Ways To Play Nice with 'Live.Com'
Over-groomed baboon baby
the Best of secretGeek
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What is so scary about DLINQ?
Infinity LIMITed
Brisbane .NET Developer Position
This Comptometric Age
Start Dot Com Slash Three
frank = loud loud shirt
Team Foundation Server: Check-in Policies
10 Line Marvel: 3 column CSS only layout (No tables)
Fun Color-Pickin Background Image Blend Thing
Kindly Shut Up About 'Best Practices'
I am well chuffed
VB,C#: Me My This That
Act Local, Blog Global
AJAX And The EARWAX
Rule Number 1: Give Me Screenshots.
SO... Should I waste my time getting an MCAD? (I hear you ask)
Visual Basic 6: Going... Going... Gone...
Blogging Map of Brisbane
Ancient Chinese Wisdom about Blogging, about Slashdot, about Scoble, about...
I liked secretGeek before he was just a corporate sell out
Del.icio.us: Procrastination, DHTML, CSS, Design.
Impress your geeky colleagues with clever tips and hidden treasures
My Inaugral Podcast!!
Christmas at the <a href='http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/'>Scoble</a> Household!
Man Names His First Born Child: 'Blog'
Dirty Scoble?
Faster than the speed of blog
Save Dog as Virtual Chicken
Coder to Developer: to the rescue again
All Consuming
Reporting services -- Tips and tricks
Hiatus Halted
How to be depressed
Messagebox Marketing
CitiBank swims with the phishers
Standarditis
The 3rd of the month -- Hey! it's backup day!
Looking for a gmail invite?
So you've got GMail
Your Help is Needed
Beloved Morons
final thoughts for the week
Lost In Translation
Word of the Day: Mobilion number
Can you Nest Enums?
Hey Mike!
Dirty Plagiarist
Why Am I Here?
How do they <i>do</i> that?
Using Books for Support and Technical Elevation
A Case of the Scobles
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!
Lowering the ceiling instead of the floor
Microsoft Crumbles Under Blogging Pressure
A Gift Bag For New Programmers...
Writer's Block, Geek-Block, and Procrastination
Three Good Rules
Getting A Longhorn Of Your Own
Three -=FAT=- tips
Ask Eric
I have been bribed, so now I will blog.
You are NOT inadequate.
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
Double-posting comments: blame the software!
A Handy Little Button
Email Personality Quiz
<Rant topic='Hungarian'>Damn I get mad about stuff!
I'm rich!
Rory Blyth style shout out to my homies
Why blogging is dangerous
Web Snob
Between Christmas and New Year
Following links can be dangerous...
Don't you 'Dare' insult Microsoft
Definitive .Net and VB.Net Links
Got Rss? Have you? Have you?
Technical Year In review
SiteMap for secretGeek
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Technical Writing: breadth first with iteration.
Smartjelly Improvements
secretGeek now syndicated!
Blog Roll...
About 'secretGeek'
Seth Godin dream
Traffic Floods In!
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