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CSS Variables are cool
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2019 By The Numbers
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5 minutes to import CSV to a database: What do you do?
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The Market for Ideas (and is contenteditable really terrible?)
a html quine
Using "ok" as a Project Control Room
Think you're clever? Can you name each of these CASING styles?
Convergent versus Divergent modes of thought
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How do you get things done?
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I'm .ok you're .ok: introducing folder profiles for bash and powershell
Navigating at the command line
Using Computers to Invent New and *Fun* European Style Board Games
Sudoku
6 different ways to run an asp.net core web application
The Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon
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Hosting an infinite number of apps in the cloud for free, on your own domains.
Today I Learned
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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Dungeon.css: Dungeon Generator
Mercurial Workflow with Branching
Which Uri Encoding method should i use in C#/.net?
Launching the secretGeek Wiki
A console.log() adventure
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Hexaflexagons!
Sweating the Small Stuff
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Using the commandline to write a book
Hacking Hyperink (aka. changing the font-size of an Epub on Kobo)
How Bundling Doubled The Income of 'NimbleText.com'
SimCity Drug Wars in the Real World
Two Flies! Bet Now!
Need an idea? Let me give you one: giveneed.com
Internet's Last Classic ASP Website Finally Upgraded
The dumbest thing that could possibly work
Humans: A Tragedy.
CRUMBS! Commandline navigation tool for Powershell
Little tool for making Amazon affiliate links
NimbleText 2.0: More Than Twice The Price!
Art of the command-line helper
Slurp up mega-traffic by writing scalable, timeless search-bait
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
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LeonBambrick.com
So your domain has been stolen. What now?
On Task Hoarding and Todo Bankruptcy
Rediscovering the Amstrad CPC 6128
The Correct Order for a First Time Viewing of The Lord Of The Rings
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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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
Coding While You Commute
Rethinking Toolbars in Visual Studio (or any IDE)
Setting up email for your microIsv
The NO Visual Studio movement: Compiling .net projects in Notepad++
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ZeroOne: the editor for programmers who think in binary
A thank you I forgot to say
My new product, NimbleText, is live
Grabbing the free songs of Jonathan Coulton (with Powershell)
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Wanted: Wiki Lists (dot org)
DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need
JSON Query Languages: 5 special purpose editors
SQLike: A simple editor
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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A handy workflow image for newbie mercurial users
The secretGeek Disaster Recovery plan
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The new prisoner's dilemma
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
Agile for one: The Personal Story 'Wall' In Action
Continuous Integration, Plugins and Going Too Far
God No! ...The ReBuilder
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'Outlook style' rules for Subversion
Really deep linking: Url + regex
The Utterly Thorough Guide To Awesome Application Compatibility on Windows 7.
Three Questions About Each Bug You Find
10 Simple Rules To Follow In Case Your Software Becomes Self-Aware
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
Low Frustration Tolerance: Curse and Blessing
Handy cheat sheet for Visual Source Safe
The Deadly Cycle of Meetingitis.
Give and Take in the Software Industry
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4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity)
baby steps in microsoft robotics studio...
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An Open, Federated Award Ceremony
How important is the problem of whether or not P=NP?
MVC Zen Garden
Babbage and Boole!
Simple Trouble Shooting Application Now Fixes Everything
Alan Kay on 'The Camel has Two Humps'
The Bluffer's Guide To Yegge: Business Requirements R Bullsh*t
A magic goal for software businesses
A to Z of Software Methodologies
TimeSnapper in Music!
21 tools used in our MicroISV
The Virtual Machine Machine and the Virtual Virtual Machine
Redux: New Synchronisation Idea Overlooked By Microsoft
Visual Studio UX Taskforce, Office UX Taskforce... etc.
How to be Jeff Atwood
Reuse good -- Abstractions better!
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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Sample Code From Text-Adventure Game Platforms
Everything that's bad for you is suddenly good for you!
Google AppEngine: evil virus or viral evil?
More about the wiki adventure game...
Wiki as Text Adventure Game
Your Brain Is In 10 Kinds of Trouble
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sg: as seen in print!
52 great reasons to fail at software
Christmas Roundup
Fuzzy Search: Check this out and report back please, o lazy web.
Beautiful Code, or rather, Beaut Comments.
Who's the customer?
The great big leaky sales funnel: a micro-ISV primer
Which came first... the domain model or the human?
My First WPF Application - A visual tour
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How to block websites that kill your productivity.
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Go Don Syme!! Go F#!!
The future of microsoft development
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
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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Scoop: Microsoft Expression Suite To Run On Apple Computers!
Sorry Visual Basic -- I is through *WITH* YOU!
How to aggregate a bit column
Hogwarts: an alternative dictionary.
Sick Of Being Nagged to Restart, Every 10 Minutes After An Update?
ATM Thief Busted By Observant Internet Watcher?
That Shakespeare Loved His Code
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ORM Smackdown!
MicroISV: Step 4 of 25 -- Basic Website Content
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Etags? I've never even heard of eTags!
The Yerkes-whatzy law of who now?
Faster Than Light -- For Real This Time
The Truth About Attention Deficit Dis... Oh, new mail.
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Can Software Be Like Building Lego?
Joel On Metaphors: The Best Developers
Introducing the 'Common Lisp Objection System'
Scheming on the Pocket PC
Step 3 of 25 -- Design Your Website
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10 "Million-Dollar-Ideas" from secretGeek.net
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'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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There's Three Ways To Know Anything
Agile and Test-Driven: A Marriage Made In Hell?
Essential 'Programming' Skills for Non-Programmers
ISV: Independent of what?
Pure CSS method for achieving Right Angle Corners
Lifelogging? Think TimeSnapper.com!
Step 1 of 25 to Building a Micro-ISV: Register a Domain
Five More Things You Didn't Need To Know
Thanks for a genuine belly chuckle, Joel
New Year's Resolution: Build Your Own Micro ISV!
What are the coolest XML projects? Really?
Give Your Manager A 500% Productivity Enhancement
Gunderloy, Spolsky, Atwood: three big idiots.
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Hey idiot, I've got toothache. BOO!
And Microsoft has Won
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How To Be A Couple Of Micro-ISV People On Opposite Sides of the World
Whose Month is it anyway?
A Very Simple .net Model View Controller
The trouble with "High Priority"
Switching off the OS
Is 'Agile' a religion? (or merely a cult)
Annotating Your Code with Simple Tests
Realtime CSS Editor -- with thanks to SquareFree.
The Truth About Lisp
Time for a rewrite.
11 Tools for Database Versioning
Stop Rolling Your Own CSV Parser!
PowerTools for Powershell
Microformats: Another 3 min guide i won't be writing
Gripping Reading, All The Way Through!
F# -- the 3 minute guide!
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Concurrent Tautologys (all happening together at once)
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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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XML isn't a mark-up language.
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You Learn Something (Scary) Every Day
How To Read "Functional Programming For The Rest of Us" For The Rest of Us
Brisbane Thai Restaurant
KeyTraino
Very detailed and serious comparison of functional and imperative programming styles
How the 'ref' keyword affects the use of objects
6 Tools for Documentation++
Marketing Weasels Who Write Code
ReDim for C#, using Generics
The Actual Minimum Every Gmail User Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (Excuses welcome)
how reddit encourages mediocrity.
FTL: Faster than Light -- Functional Text Language
html, visual basic, working blue, tools, microsoft, color, linguistics, [code], javascript, ideas rat, css, functional
Fajax -- the fake alternative to ajax
Big In Japan!
Get On Up!
I think you're coming back for more than just the hunting
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
Launch the Code Editor on startup
Hanseldotted
the SecretMaker
Suspicious Mail
Microsoft to give away Windows for Free... (maybe)
Elevator Pitch of the Century!!
FU: Findability precedes Usability.
Help Needed with a little .Net function...
Lessons from Amazon referrals
Some Recent Picks...
Conway's Game of Life (in Javascript)
Obstacles To International Development
TimeSnapper.com: free download
Software Hurts The Mind
Pay Day for the Ideas Rat
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Is MS Windows ready for the desktop?
Sony, Spawn of Satan
Messenger Disgruntlement
the Best of secretGeek
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Web Hype 2.0
What is so scary about DLINQ?
LINQ love
Eric Sink deserves the Garry Kasparov Medal of Strategic Brilliance!
Brisbane .NET Developer Position
Start Dot Com Slash Three
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.
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
Gradient Maker
A Color Gradient Webservice
New Company, New Language, Same IDE...
Kindly Shut Up About 'Best Practices'
Speed Surfer? Get a 'Local' Homepage
on leaving a job...
Treat Your Eyes
Today's HOT Dos Tip...
Simple Example of Using the World's Simplest Code Generator....
Online petition for less on-line petitions.
Act Local, Blog Global
Cool Company Seeks Java and .net IT Graduates in Sydney
Hey Brisbaner! Want to join a Superfast, Wireless Peer To Peer Community?
Rule Number 1: Give Me Screenshots.
Spolsky Madness!
Dreaded Return of the Marquee Tag!
IE7! -- how exciting! (note false enthusiasm)
Yep, here's your problem.
Del.icio.us: Procrastination, DHTML, CSS, Design.
CODE QUIZ!
Faster than the speed of blog
Winnable Solitaire: Sink or Swim?
'1954: A time when men mowed the grass wearing a tie.'
A favelet, an email, a web service
Beloved Morons
Lost In Translation
Graphic design for engineers: the logo
Can you Nest Enums?
Question: Which code snippet is "better"?
Programmer's Purgatory
The Where, the Who and the Why of Steve Lombardi
Hungarian Polarity
How Microsoft Lost the Joel War
MMMS: A Map of My Mind-Space
The um, Leon Test?
Lowering the ceiling instead of the floor
Writer's Block, Geek-Block, and Procrastination
XPLT: eXtensible Parser Language Transformations
Roy's Competition: Some Suggested Add-Ins for Visual Studio.Net
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Excel-Lite: Hey coder! This spreadsheet's for you!
Programmer's Creed: The Mark of Quality
<Rant topic='Hungarian'>Damn I get mad about stuff!
'Try again after midnight'? Yeh, right!
Live Mars Feed!
The Animated Woody Allen
ASP and the Tower of Babel
Web Snob
Definitive .Net and VB.Net Links
It's My Future
SiteMap for secretGeek
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Smartjelly Improvements
Blog Roll...
Essential Software for Geeks and Power Browsers
10 Links For Improving Web Site Quality
French Archaeologists Find First Website
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