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CSS Variables are cool
html, tools, podcast, blog, color, UX, microISV, tdd, [code], javascript, nimbletext, ideas rat, css
2019 By The Numbers
twitter, html, working blue, tools, blog, microsoft, color, microISV, amazon, apple, social network, productivity, javascript, games, australia, css
Desert Skies - exclusive inside information from the developers
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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
Death to the Passive Voice
2017 by the Numbers
twitter, tools, blog, microsoft, color, UX, microISV, social network, productivity, nimbletext, ideas rat, functional
How to Discuss the Important Things With Your Kids
The Joy of Making Simple Edits to Microsoft's Docs
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
Dungeon.css: Dungeon Generator
Which Uri Encoding method should i use in C#/.net?
Writing Your First Mercurial Extension
How Businesses Are Actually Structured.
A console.log() adventure
[code], color, commandline, editor, facebook, games, html, javascript, microISV, nimbletext, [ruby], social network, tools, twitter, working blue
Hexaflexagons!
NimbleSET 2.0: Death to the VLOOKUP!
Your First Product
If Time Types were like Spatial Types
Humans: A Tragedy.
Programming The Robot from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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
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
A Computer Simulation of Creative Work, or 'How To Get Nothing Done'
NimbleText 1.9 -- BoomTown!
**This** is how you pivot
Go and read a book.
Slurp up mega-traffic by writing scalable, timeless search-bait
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
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.
Introducing Cosby, spontaneous striped background generator
Slides from WDCNZ: Live Coding Asp.net MVC3
Custom Errors in ASP.Net MVC: It couldn't be simpler, right?
Anatomy of a Domain Hijacking, part 1
Coding While You Commute
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
I see you're using vim. Let me fix that for you.
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
JSON Query Languages: 5 special purpose editors
Yet Another BizPlan Generator.
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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Fractal Feedback, a diversion into recreational programming
Suggested User Experience Improvements for DiffMerge
SQL Style Extensions for C#
Sysi: the ultimate administrators toolkit
The Ultimate Agent of WERF Destruction
What's a better game than Devshop?
Should be purple
Kitchen Agile
Debugging: It's all about finding Albuquerque.
HTML5, a 3 minute guide
Agile for one: The Personal Story 'Wall' In Action
Cosmo: project status panel
Continuous Integration, Plugins and Going Too Far
The Rules of Stand Up
Three Questions About Each Bug You Find
Recursing over the Pareto Principle...
Sometimes, The Better You Program, The Worse You Communicate.
In the enterprise, nothing is what it seems
Your next text editor is... MetaNote!
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Further proof that testing is for wimps and bad programmers
Differentiating between environments within SQL Server Management Studio
Low Frustration Tolerance: Curse and Blessing
Give and Take in the Software Industry
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4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity)
An Open, Federated Award Ceremony
Is Corporate IT a form of emotional abuse?
Java Powered Internet? WTF?
secretGeek at Tech-Ed: "How to build your own Tiny Software Company"
The Greatest Chalk Talk Known To Man: 'Better than a license to print money: Build Your Own Tiny Software Company'
The Bluffer's Guide To Yegge: Business Requirements R Bullsh*t
Prototype Ready for Launch
TimeSnapper 3.1: Attack of the the Red/Green Stripes
Lost Treasures of the DOS World: tree!
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
Return from an offline sojourn
Leaky Abstractions? Try Asp.Net!
Behavior Driven Development: As Human As Possible
TimeSnapper 3.0 -- an interactive, bubbling cauldron of possibilities
Everything I know about Code Reviews I learnt from Star Wars (and JCooney)
Syntax highlighting of strings
3 Types of Argument
52 great reasons to fail at software
51 Core Abilities of Successful Software
F#: More Mandelbrot Madness
F### yeh! i still got it baby!
How To Re-Start A Blog
Bug Eyed VS2008 Guy Freaks Me Out
The great big leaky sales funnel: a micro-ISV primer
Fluidic APIs are stupid... NOT!
Your Brain, And the Effects of Syntax Highlighting
Why Are So Many Dev Tools Orange?
TimeSnapper On Sale: 2 year anniversary special
The Inaugural TimeSnapper Professional 'MikeG.Next' Honorary Award Of Linkblogging Excellence
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'
How to aggregate a bit column
Hogwarts: an alternative dictionary.
ORM Smackdown!
Etags? I've never even heard of eTags!
The Yerkes-whatzy law of who now?
Can Software Be Like Building Lego?
Joel On Metaphors: The Best Developers
Scheming on the Pocket PC
'Reuse' Is Not Usable
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Powershell on Rails -- MonadRail!
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What percent of normal people have the .net framework installed?
Give Your Manager A 500% Productivity Enhancement
Deadlocks: What would Feynman do?
Whose Month is it anyway?
A Very Simple .net Model View Controller
Annotating Your Code with Simple Tests
Gripping Reading, All The Way Through!
F# -- the 3 minute guide!
blog, [code], color, commandline, css, editor, education, functional, html, it industry, linguistics, microsoft, productivity, tools, UX
Joel asked: Can your language do this?
Babysteps in WATIR
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!
An Absolute Beginner's Babysteps In PowerShell...
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ShinyPower!
amazon, blog, [code], color, css, editor, html, javascript, linguistics, microISV, microsoft, nimbletext, sql, tools
You Learn Something (Scary) Every Day
You Will Set Goals!
How the 'ref' keyword affects the use of objects
Marketing Weasels Who Write Code
ReDim for C#, using Generics
VB.Net Tip: IIF is a function, not a language feature
FTL: Faster than Light -- Functional Text Language
html, visual basic, working blue, tools, microsoft, color, linguistics, [code], javascript, ideas rat, css, functional
What does XML look like on other planets?
Printing 'Console' Screenshots? Save your Toner/Ink
Thought for the day
Copy, Copy, Copy, Paste: PowerToy Needed.
Where's my damn robot?
Suspicious Mail
Help Needed with a little .Net function...
Nitpicking Yahoo Mail
the Best of secretGeek
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What is so scary about DLINQ?
The brain is not strongly typed
10 Line Marvel: 3 column CSS only layout (No tables)
Thus Spake Gaksloope: The future of browse and code
Fun Color-Pickin Background Image Blend Thing
Winderrrr XP
Gradient Maker
A Color Gradient Webservice
New Company, New Language, Same IDE...
Any minute now...
Today's HOT Dos Tip...
Cool Company Seeks Java and .net IT Graduates in Sydney
Spolsky Madness!
Not So Stunning Sentences
CODE QUIZ!
Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search
Faster than the speed of blog
All the software's a stage
MS Word -- Executive Edition
More Animal Monitoring
Graphic design for engineers: the logo
Can you Nest Enums?
Question: Which code snippet is "better"?
Programmer's Purgatory
Nobody Can Eat Fifty Eggs.
Embedded-Sql without Sql-Injection
Writer's Block, Geek-Block, and Procrastination
Two-Way Date-String Conversion (in .Net)
Sexy New Development Methodology!
Roy's Competition: Some Suggested Add-Ins for Visual Studio.Net
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Excel-Lite: Hey coder! This spreadsheet's for you!
Stupid Code To The Rescue!
How to match a string value to its equivalent Enum value.
Email Personality Quiz
Technical Writing: 10 Mistakes you don't wanna make
Live Mars Feed!
Einstein Quiz
An Open Letter to Technical Authors
Constraint Files Explained
Between Christmas and New Year
SiteMap for secretGeek
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How To Revise a Dog Ugly Manuscript
Visual Studio .Net Tips
How to write a novel
Colour Table
Lessons From Bill Gates
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