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Productivity with Powershell: Grab your agenda from outlook as plain text
2019 By The Numbers
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auto play
Using "ok" as a Project Control Room
Meetings: Are They Worth It?
2018 By The Numbers
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Convergent versus Divergent modes of thought
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How do you get things done?
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2017 by the Numbers
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The value of realistic goals (with data)
How to get in the zone
Dadding 101: Give Your Kids A Trail of Codes To Break
Productivity Flowchart: 13 years in the making
Sudoku
Teach kids (and adults) to master algebra with DragonBox
The Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon
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Love Me Two Times
Sweating the Small Stuff
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Using the commandline to write a book
How Bundling Doubled The Income of 'NimbleText.com'
Downtime as a service
A flowchart of what programmers do at work all day
CRUMBS! Commandline navigation tool for Powershell
AddDays: A Very Simple Date Calculator
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A Computer Simulation of Creative Work, or 'How To Get Nothing Done'
Go and read a book.
The 'Should I automate it?' Calculator
aaron swartz: the early works
On Task Hoarding and Todo Bankruptcy
Developer UI Done Right: Mercurial Commandline!
NimbleText: Origins
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Coding While You Commute
Rethinking Toolbars in Visual Studio (or any IDE)
The NO Visual Studio movement: Compiling .net projects in Notepad++
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Mercurial workflow for personal projects (with a .net bias)
DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need
The secretGeek Disaster Recovery plan
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What's a better game than Devshop?
DevShop: The Cool Game that Makes Development Look Fun
Kitchen Agile
Agile for one: The Personal Story 'Wall' In Action
Matt, The Office Mortar
The Utterly Thorough Guide To Awesome Application Compatibility on Windows 7.
Drowning in things to do
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Small Moments in Software Philosophy
A 3 minute guide to embedding IronPython in a C# application
Found Time!
The Deadly Cycle of Meetingitis.
It's 2009 already -- where's my damn internet-based IDE??
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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IT Industry Revolutionised By Labour Saving Device
TimeSnapper 3.3, and News From Iceland
A to Z of Software Methodologies
TimeSnapper in Music!
Web Tablet: Toward Less Complexity
TimeSnapper 3.1: Attack of the the Red/Green Stripes
Reuse good -- Abstractions better!
Return from an offline sojourn
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?
Workflow software: I'm calling the bluff.
Anonymous Methods: Now that's a dumb name!
Your Brain Is In 10 Kinds of Trouble
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Organizational Tools for different scope and time
secretGeek: Predictions for 2008
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TimeSnapper 2.6: Hook It Up
TimeSnapper Special - 9 More Days
How to block websites that kill your productivity.
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Facebook -- what every concerned user needs to know!
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
World's Simplest Code Generator: implemented in pure Javascript
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Sorry Visual Basic -- I is through *WITH* YOU!
ATM Thief Busted By Observant Internet Watcher?
Perfect Productivity with TimeSnapper 2.4
The Yerkes-whatzy law of who now?
Text Files -- What are they good for?
Joel On Metaphors: The Best Developers
Zombie-Friendly Pick-To-Light Home Kitchen
A Faster Ruby.
ISV: Independent of what?
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
Anxiety is a good thing.
Download NextAction: Updated
Give Your Manager A 500% Productivity Enhancement
Gunderloy, Spolsky, Atwood: three big idiots.
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And Microsoft has Won
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The trouble with "High Priority"
The difference between goals and dreams.
F# -- the 3 minute guide!
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Concurrent Tautologys (all happening together at once)
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XML isn't a mark-up language.
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You Will Set Goals!
How the Australian Tax Changes Will Affect Your 'Take Home' Pay
TimeSnapper 2.0 is near to completion
Big In Japan!
Launch the Code Editor on startup
Marked up: Finalists for the 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards
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TimeSnapper.com: free download
Team Foundation Server: Check-in Policies
Another Day for Mort
Simple Example of Using the World's Simplest Code Generator....
Software Idea: Automatic ScreenShot Journal
Goals List for 2005
Stuckness: other Delicious news
Your Help is Needed
final thoughts for the week
How Microsoft Lost the Joel War
Lowering the ceiling instead of the floor
Writer's Block, Geek-Block, and Procrastination
Sexy New Development Methodology!
Roy's Competition: Some Suggested Add-Ins for Visual Studio.Net
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I am not worthy
Court Fines Microsoft over Anti-Competitive Calculator
The Toilet Reservation System is finally online
'Try again after midnight'? Yeh, right!
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