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Stashy is a Really simple Key Value store
Productivity with Powershell: Grab your agenda from outlook as plain text
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
What is NimbleText (a story about cheese)
TimeSnapper for Mac: Beta Testers Needed
I have some feedback for you...
twitter, working blue, blog, microsoft, amazon, sysadmin, social network, javascript, sql, commandline
Convergent versus Divergent modes of thought
twitter, html, working blue, it industry, blog, color, UX, legal, apple, sysadmin, social network, productivity, javascript, sql
The Book Is Ready
pushpop, a mental stack manager
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 little known beauty of .ensure files
In search of brutal honesty
You Feel The Blood Drain From Your Face (A DevOps story)
UPDATE a table using a JOIN to another table (or to itself)
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!
How Bundling Doubled The Income of 'NimbleText.com'
Boothby, a personal database
Internet's Last Classic ASP Website Finally Upgraded
If Time Types were like Spatial Types
Programming The Robot from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
CRUMBS! Commandline navigation tool for Powershell
Extracting a Trello board as markdown
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'
Slurp up mega-traffic by writing scalable, timeless search-bait
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
kv can remember it for you, wholesale
NimbleText 1.6, Codename Jetboat
On Task Hoarding and Todo Bankruptcy
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
Boring article about fixing a 'Login failed... untrusted domain' issue when connecting to SQL Server.
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
A thank you I forgot to say
My new product, NimbleText, is live
Using NimbleSet to compare lists
DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need
JSON Query Languages: 5 special purpose editors
SQLike: A simple editor
24 things to do, and 100 things *not* to do (yet) for building a MicroISV
blog, color, commandline, css, google, html, it industry, legal, microISV, social network, sql, sysadmin, tools, twitter
A handy workflow image for newbie mercurial users
Fractal Feedback, a diversion into recreational programming
SQL Style Extensions for C#
DevShop: The Cool Game that Makes Development Look Fun
zen-coding: turn those CSS selectors upside down
The Real-Time online JQuery Editor
God No! ...The ReBuilder
atwood, blog, [code], commandline, css, editor, education, facebook, google, hanselman, html, [ruby], social network, sql, twitter, working blue
Further proof that testing is for wimps and bad programmers
Differentiating between environments within SQL Server Management Studio
Low Frustration Tolerance: Curse and Blessing
It's 2009 already -- where's my damn internet-based IDE??
Give and Take in the Software Industry
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baby steps in microsoft robotics studio...
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IT Industry Revolutionised By Labour Saving Device
3 differences between 'Small Business' and 'Enterprise'
Life is Upstream
Simple Trouble Shooting Application Now Fixes Everything
apple, coffee, commandline, google, hanselman, it industry, javascript, microISV, microsoft, security, sql, tools, UX
A to Z of Software Methodologies
How Can Microsoft Beat Google?
TimeSnapper 3.1: Attack of the the Red/Green Stripes
21 tools used in our MicroISV
Should Linq To Sql Go "Open Source"?
Redux: New Synchronisation Idea Overlooked By Microsoft
Reuse good -- Abstractions better!
Word of the day: Upsert
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
Everything that's bad for you is suddenly good for you!
Everything I know about Code Reviews I learnt from Star Wars (and JCooney)
Workflow software: I'm calling the bluff.
TimeSnapper 2.7: Word Clouds reveal your computing lifestyle!
Thought game: What if SQL had a type called 'Operator'
TimeSnapper 2.6: Hook It Up
Fuzzy Search: Check this out and report back please, o lazy web.
Revolutionary (versus Evolutionary) Code Generation
TimeSnapper Special - 9 More Days
Your Brain, And the Effects of Syntax Highlighting
Which came first... the domain model or the human?
Brisbane's Independent .NET Consultant
Why Are So Many Dev Tools Orange?
My First WPF Application - A visual tour
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TimeSnapper On Sale: 2 year anniversary special
Password Protect Your TimeSnapper Images!
Step 5 of 25 to Building a Micro-ISV: Install traffic monitoring on your web site
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General Purpose Programming Language... Good For Nothing?
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A weird casestudy in technical research
Look at all the things I'm NOT doing!
How to aggregate a bit column
Exec Inline AddIn for Visual Studio 2005 -- Get It Now
ATM Thief Busted By Observant Internet Watcher?
Separation Anxiety
TimeSnapper Diabetes Promotion Ending Soon!
Perfect Productivity with TimeSnapper 2.4
ORM Smackdown!
MicroISV: Step 4 of 25 -- Basic Website Content
agile, blog, editor, education, html, linguistics, microISV, movie, sql, sysadmin, tdd, tools, UX, working blue
Faster Than Light -- For Real This Time
Translating a little bit of (microsoft) double talk...
Back Seat Driven Development
Step 3 of 25 -- Design Your Website
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'Reuse' Is Not Usable
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Is there a general solution to string templating?
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How Naming Works At Microsoft
Essential 'Programming' Skills for Non-Programmers
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
Step 1 of 25 to Building a Micro-ISV: Register a Domain
TimeSnapper 2.2 -- Auto Popup? That sounds terrible!
25 steps for building a Micro-ISV
How to Sneak .net 2.0 into an organization
Download It Now! Exec Inline: A VS2003 add-in that lets you run a chunk of code
New Year's Resolution: Build Your Own Micro ISV!
Give Your Manager A 500% Productivity Enhancement
Deadlocks: What would Feynman do?
Passwords in Sql Server 2000 are Case Insensitive by default -- WTF?
Never Pay For Application Development Services Again
ShinyPower Now Opensource
11 Tools for Database Versioning
TimeSnapper 2 Goes Live!
Gripping Reading, All The Way Through!
Sql Down Under Code Camp
syntactic sweeteners, part ][
What is JSON: the 3 minute JSON Tutorial
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Web 2.0: Something's Missing
Babysteps in PowerShell part deux: Variables! Real Proper Variables!
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XML isn't a mark-up language.
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KeyTraino
Collation Is Evil
6 Tools for Documentation++
ReDim for C#, using Generics
Amphetamines for Query Analyser
Never BCC an Idiot.
Big In Japan!
Marked up: Finalists for the 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards
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rescued by timeSnapper
Let's Go Right Ahead
Joe Celko, Bill of Materials, hierarchical nested trees, data explosion...
What is so scary about DLINQ?
LINQ love
Infinity LIMITed
Brisbane .NET Developer Position
A Color Gradient Webservice
Sexy Tool for Fast, Active Coding -- Any Language!
Simple Example of Using the World's Simplest Code Generator....
Hey Brisbaner! Want to join a Superfast, Wireless Peer To Peer Community?
Enhance Reporting Services By Including A Function Library
Use Your Instant Messenger To Query Amazon
Can Microsoft Reporting Services retrieve data from Oracle?
Sure beats Northwind.
You know your query is getting a little intense when...
SQL Server Enterprise Manager Tip: Printing Diagrams
The Future of Music, MP3s and Moods. Or not.
Impress your geeky colleagues with clever tips and hidden treasures
Save Dog as Virtual Chicken
Reporting services -- Tips and tricks
Sometimes you frustrate me, Mrs. Reporting Services.
Hiatus Halted
Clubbing the Crystal Dodo
Can you Nest Enums?
I must strangle someone.
Triggers: Very Good, or Very Bad?
MMMS: A Map of My Mind-Space
Y2-GAY: Government Approves Third Gender; DBA's Panic!
Embedded-Sql without Sql-Injection
Sexy New Development Methodology!
Just keep zooming -- the resolution never degrades.
Excel-Lite: Hey coder! This spreadsheet's for you!
Riddle me this, batman.
Two security hacks i'm looking forward to:
A few changes on the way
Never Trust A SysAdmin
Dogfooding Your Mother-In-Law
The four horsemen of the online apocalypse
It's the Little Things that Sh*t Me Most
ASP and the Tower of Babel
.Net Remoting: the Quick and Dirty Guide
visual basic, editor, microsoft, UX, security, linguistics, tdd, amazon, [code], sql, commandline, functional
Technical Year In review
Network Stuff
Smartjelly Improvements
"Dot-Net Awareness" Day!
Release Early Release Often
How to write a novel
Essential Software for Geeks and Power Browsers
Future Articles
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