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My love/hate relationship with Stackoverflow
Stackoverflow is a terrific source of information but can also be infuriating.
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Xamarin Forms Application For Home Automation
Building a Xamarin Forms application to control my home automation system
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Websites should stop using passwords for login!
A slightly radical idea to eliminate passwords from many of the websites you use just occasionally
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VariableWithHistory - making persistence invisible, making history visible
A novel approach to adding history to variables in a programming language
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Neo4j Meetup in Seattle - some observations
Some observations from a meetup in Seattle on graph databases and Neo4j
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My first programme [sic]
At the risk of looking seriously old, here's something found on a paper tape
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A simple state machine in C#
State machines are useful in many contexts but especially for home automation
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Task Parallel Library: A scheduler with priority, apartment state and maximum degree of parallelism
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MongoDB Map-Reduce - Hints and Tips
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Why don't you trust your build system?
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Elliott 803 - An Early Computer
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Continuous Integration -> Continuous Deployment
What is "quality" in terms of a released software product or website?
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Making a bootable Windows 7 USB Memory Stick
Here's how I made a bootable USB memory stick for Windows 7
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Tip: getting the index in a foreeach statement
A tip on using LINQ's Select expression with an index
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SQL Server - error: 18456, severity: 14, state: 38 - Incorrect Login
A rant about developers using the same message for different errors
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Mixed mode assembly errors after upgrade to .NET 4 Beta 2
Fixing this error was fairly simple
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Shortened URLs should be treated like a Codec ...
Expanding URLs would help users decide whether or not to click a link
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A great site for developing and testing regular expressions
Just a link to a site I found useful
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Introducing Jigsaw menus
A novel UI for menus that combines a breadcrumb and a menu in one visual metaphor
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Fix for IE's overflow:hidden problem
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Amazon Instance vs Dedicated Server comparison
Some benchmark performance for Amazon vs a dedicated server
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Agile Software Development is Like Sailing
You cannot tack too often when sailing or you get nowhere. Agile is a bit like that.
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AntiVirus Software is the Worst Software!
When your anti-virus software starts stealing your personal data, it's time to remove it!
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ASP.NET Custom Validation
How to solve a problem encountered with custom validation in ASP.NET
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Google Chart API
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Cache optimized scanning of pairwise combinations of values
Using space-filling curves to optimize caching
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Dell upgrades - a pricey way to go
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