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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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What is NimbleText (a story about cheese)
TimeSnapper for Mac: Beta Testers Needed
React is NOT ok
Meetings: Are They Worth It?
2018 By The Numbers
twitter, working blue, tools, blog, microsoft, color, UX, microISV, linguistics, amazon, social network, productivity, javascript, nimbletext, commandline, robots
Think you're clever? Can you name each of these CASING styles?
NimbleText is now a Machine Learning Platform
I'm .ok you're .ok: introducing folder profiles for bash and powershell
2017 by the Numbers
twitter, tools, blog, microsoft, color, UX, microISV, social network, productivity, nimbletext, ideas rat, functional
The Ultimate Star Wars t-shirt
pushpop, a mental stack manager
Productivity Flowchart: 13 years in the making
2016 by the numbers:
The Joy of Making Simple Edits to Microsoft's Docs
Teach kids (and adults) to master algebra with DragonBox
Post Slackathon Wrap up
Less than 3 days until the Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon.
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The Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon
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How to Left Pad, for real
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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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Fixing Keyboard Functionality on MacBook Air after Upgrading to Windows 10.
Which Uri Encoding method should i use in C#/.net?
You Feel The Blood Drain From Your Face (A DevOps story)
UPDATE a table using a JOIN to another table (or to itself)
The Zen of Telling Notepad++ That .Config Files are XML
A console.log() adventure
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Sweating the Small Stuff
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Spaced Repetition Software... for Kids!
Solving An Air-gapped Traffic Mystery
NimbleSET 2.0: Death to the VLOOKUP!
Hacking Hyperink (aka. changing the font-size of an Epub on Kobo)
How Bundling Doubled The Income of 'NimbleText.com'
Your First Product
The Nimble Bundle
Need an idea? Let me give you one: giveneed.com
A Dashboard For Everything and Everything on a Dashboard
Internet's Last Classic ASP Website Finally Upgraded
New product launch: NimbleSET
Happy new year 2014
Downtime as a service
CRUMBS! Commandline navigation tool for Powershell
Little tool for making Amazon affiliate links
Extracting a Trello board as markdown
AddDays: A Very Simple Date Calculator
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NimbleText 2.0: More Than Twice The Price!
NimbleText 1.9 -- BoomTown!
Art of the command-line helper
Slurp up mega-traffic by writing scalable, timeless search-bait
The 'Should I automate it?' Calculator
Finding (and removing) duplicate files on your hard drive
Harvey, a .net chat server built with RabbitMQ
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kv can remember it for you, wholesale
NimbleText 1.6, Codename Jetboat
On Task Hoarding and Todo Bankruptcy
Developer UI Done Right: Mercurial Commandline!
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?
Coding While You Commute
The 'less crashy' release of NimbleText
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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
Mercurial workflow for personal projects (with a .net bias)
I see you're using vim. Let me fix that for you.
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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Using NimbleSet to compare lists
SQLike: A simple editor
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
Sysi: the ultimate administrators toolkit
The secretGeek Disaster Recovery plan
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DevShop: The Cool Game that Makes Development Look Fun
Kitchen Agile
zen-coding: turn those CSS selectors upside down
Debugging: It's all about finding Albuquerque.
HTML5, a 3 minute guide
Agile for one: The Personal Story 'Wall' In Action
Three Questions About Each Bug You Find
In the enterprise, nothing is what it seems
Your next text editor is... MetaNote!
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Drowning in things to do
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Small Moments in Software Philosophy
My code would suck less if...
Plugins! Plugins! Plugins! It must be TimeSnapper 3.4
A 3 minute guide to embedding IronPython in a C# application
Low Frustration Tolerance: Curse and Blessing
Handy cheat sheet for Visual Source Safe
8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.
Can You Cure the Copy/Paste Disease?
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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TimeSnapper hits the local press... and more on Iceland
TimeSnapper 3.3, and News From Iceland
TimeSnapper 3.2: What are you afraid of?
Simple Trouble Shooting Application Now Fixes Everything
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Idea: a poor man's eye-tracking heatmap for win forms
A magic goal for software businesses
TimeSnapper in Music!
Fixing problems can give you a glimpse of something terrible
Sudden TimeSnapper Discount!
TimeSnapper 3.1: Attack of the the Red/Green Stripes
21 tools used in our MicroISV
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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TimeSnapper 3.0 -- an interactive, bubbling cauldron of possibilities
Workflow software: I'm calling the bluff.
(Some) Computer Technicians Are Creepy
Organizational Tools for different scope and time
A reflection on hate week.
TimeSnapper 2.7: Word Clouds reveal your computing lifestyle!
How To Re-Start A Blog
TimeSnapper 2.6: Hook It Up
Fuzzy Search: Check this out and report back please, o lazy web.
Idea: Ribbon Bar Item Finder
Beautiful Code, or rather, Beaut Comments.
SecretGeek: live and dangerous!!
Revolutionary (versus Evolutionary) Code Generation
The great big leaky sales funnel: a micro-ISV primer
TimeSnapper Special - 9 More Days
Your Brain, And the Effects of Syntax Highlighting
Brisbane's Independent .NET Consultant
Why Are So Many Dev Tools Orange?
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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TimeSnapper On Sale: 2 year anniversary special
WSCG as a Batch File
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
Navigational Spaghetti -- What are your thoughts?
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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Scoop: Microsoft Expression Suite To Run On Apple Computers!
Microsoft Expression Family... WTF?
Exec Inline AddIn for Visual Studio 2005 -- Get It Now
What a week in source code!
That Shakespeare Loved His Code
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Wisdom from Atli:
Use TimeSnapper to Track Your Baldness
do you want a server farm with that bottle of milk?
Diabetes promo ends in 5 minutes
TimeSnapper Diabetes Promotion Ending Soon!
Some Trillion Dollar Problems
Fight Diabetes with TimeSnapper
Perfect Productivity with TimeSnapper 2.4
MicroISV: Step 4 of 25 -- Basic Website Content
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Faster Than Light -- For Real This Time
Text Files -- What are they good for?
NO ONE IS GOING TO STEAL YOUR BRILLIANT IDEA.
The Truth About Attention Deficit Dis... Oh, new mail.
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Back Seat Driven Development
Can Software Be Like Building Lego?
TimeSnapper -- Feature Comparison
Scheming on the Pocket PC
Step 3 of 25 -- Design Your Website
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'Reuse' Is Not Usable
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Remove Duplicate Rows From A Text File Using Powershell
ISV: Independent of what?
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!
TimeSnapper 2.2 -- Auto Popup? That sounds terrible!
25 steps for building a Micro-ISV
Download It Now! Exec Inline: A VS2003 add-in that lets you run a chunk of code
Predictions for 2007
New Year's Resolution: Build Your Own Micro ISV!
What are the coolest XML projects? Really?
Download NextAction: Updated
In Vista, final step of installation launches YOU!!
Sexy New Version: TimeSnapper 2.1, we finally grow up
How To Be A Couple Of Micro-ISV People On Opposite Sides of the World
Your Next Action is: Download NextAction!
Concurrency Bug in all editions of Visual Studio
Demo: Exec-Inline, an Add-in that executes the currently selected code, immediately
Quick Tip: Show Shortcut Keys in Visual Studio
A Kilo of Days Ground
ShinyPower Now Opensource
Annotating Your Code with Simple Tests
Thought Game: Duplicate Driven Programming
Realtime CSS Editor -- with thanks to SquareFree.
11 Tools for Database Versioning
TimeSnapper 2 Goes Live!
PowerTools for Powershell
Why Geeks are Freaks
F# -- the 3 minute guide!
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Concurrent Tautologys (all happening together at once)
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Babysteps in WATIR
What is JSON: the 3 minute JSON Tutorial
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Web 2.0: Something's Missing
An Absolute Beginner's Babysteps In PowerShell...
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ShinyPower!
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4 Lazy Ways To Stop Yourself Being Lazy
KeyTraino
You Will Set Goals!
6 Tools for Documentation++
Visual Poetry Studio 2005
Marketing Weasels Who Write Code
How the Australian Tax Changes Will Affect Your 'Take Home' Pay
TimeSnapper 2.0 is near to completion
The Actual Minimum Every Gmail User Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (Excuses welcome)
Tip o the day: Copy Text from MessageBox/Msgbox
VS2005 Tip: Which file am I working on?
FTL: Faster than Light -- Functional Text Language
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Early Screenshot Technology
Big In Japan!
Get On Up!
Damn that's one ugly customer!
10 Ways to boost the Zen of Paint: Suggested improvements in MS Paint
Printing 'Console' Screenshots? Save your Toner/Ink
Marked up: Finalists for the 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards
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Tip: MS Paint Power User -- Setting Line Thickness
Hanseldotted
Thought for the day
rescued by timeSnapper
the SecretMaker
Suspicious Mail
Unposted thoughts and SkunkWorks
TimeSnapper Supports Multiple Monitors!
Microsoft to give away Windows for Free... (maybe)
Elevator Pitch of the Century!!
Forget Intellisense: I want IntelliSEARCH
FU: Findability precedes Usability.
Obstacles To International Development
TimeSnapper.com: free download
Pay Day for the Ideas Rat
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Five Ways To Play Nice with 'Live.Com'
the Best of secretGeek
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recycling the mental cache
Brisbane .NET Developer Position
Schnippetize your life
Team Foundation Server: Check-in Policies
Free Money For Doin What You Love
Delpino -- Last Ever Show
Gradient Maker
A Color Gradient Webservice
MS Paint //Master Class//
Tip O The Day: Quit Buggin Me, Messenger.
Sexy Tool for Fast, Active Coding -- Any Language!
Hot .Net Tip: This will save you a lot of time
Simple Example of Using the World's Simplest Code Generator....
Enhance Reporting Services By Including A Function Library
Too Many Damn Arrows in VS.Net!
Del.icio.us: Procrastination, DHTML, CSS, Design.
Coder to Developer: to the rescue again
Sometimes you frustrate me, Mrs. Reporting Services.
How to be depressed
A favelet, an email, a web service
So you've got GMail
Lutz Roeder's Reflector Is Magic
MS Word -- Executive Edition
Triggers: Very Good, or Very Bad?
How Microsoft Lost the Joel War
A Gift Bag For New Programmers...
Three -=FAT=- tips
Just keep zooming -- the resolution never degrades.
Shake that keyboard baby!
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!
Court Fines Microsoft over Anti-Competitive Calculator
Excel VBA: We hates it! We hates it! We hates it for ever and ever!
Definitive .Net and VB.Net Links
SiteMap for secretGeek
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Underground XML
Visual Studio .Net Tips
Dot Net Rookie Mistakes
Blog Roll...
How to write a novel
Essential Software for Geeks and Power Browsers
10 Links For Improving Web Site Quality
The Lost Art of Batch Programming
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