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12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers

In every era in recent times there has been one profession that for a short while you could enter without formal training. Autodidacts in the 19th century could read the law without recourse to formal education (see Abe Lincoln). In … Continue reading

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A Party Game.

Quick Bit David @Pogue tweeted a link to this NY Times article, reporting that there are [longer] better, faster [stronger] apps available than Shazam (which is about to start charging new customers…) so I extensively examined the alternatives for just … Continue reading

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Time To Update My Favorites

Periodically I take a shot at listing my favorites: some folks find useful items they hadn’t looked at and it forces me to take a long hard look at whether it is time to try something new. Today: Favorite Utilities … Continue reading

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Organizational Chaos Followup

About a month ago I wrote about getting organized.  Since it is Sunday and I’m saving my big announcement blog entry for tomorrow morning <smile>, I thought I’d take a moment for a not-so-quick follow up.    Two Philosophies Lead To … Continue reading

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This is a note that I’m Cindy To Buy Chocolate

Remember the Newton?  Such a great idea… almost. Long before the iPhone, Apple released the Newton, promising that you could write in long hand and the Newton would turn your scrawl into printed words. Unfortunately,  not always the words you … Continue reading

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A Twitter App I want

Whose tweets do the people whose tweets I value, value? That is, this application would help me find the people whose tweets I consistently value, and then find out whose tweets they consistently value, and it would do it in … Continue reading

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Speaking at Code Mash 2009

Very proud to say that I will have two presentations at CodeMash 2009 Skinning Silverlight Controls In Silverlight (which I will extend, time allowing to Creating Skinnable Custom Controls and dive into Dependency Properties and the Parts and States Model and … Continue reading

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The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

I used to work for a man named Larry Weiss at Citibank, who did a number of magical things (including creating the best ATMs in the world in the 1980s that still surpass anything I’ve seen other banks do yet!).  … Continue reading

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