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Stack exchange, moderators with OCD, and why some poor sap won’t be able to...
I've seen this happen to others too. If you don't follow the exact expectations of the moderators, you will have your answer removed. Even if it's the only available correct answer. StackOverflow is a...
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So What’s it Like? Participating in the Windward Code War
You arrive around 9:40 wondering what you’re in for. Even more, wondering why you got up on such an early hour on a Saturday – are you nuts? The article goes on to explain participating in the code war...
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When StackOverflow Goes Bad
First off, I use StackOverflow a lot and find it really useful. Most of the time answers are useful and people are helpful. But you also have a small number of contributors that are complete dicks. And...
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Write Code, Get Prizes, and Win the World Championship
Want a chance to score a Microsoft Xbox (with Kinect), Surface Tablet, Kinect Bundle, IntelliJ and ReSharper? All you have to do is sign up and compete in the most exciting programming contest in the...
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Want a job at a startup? Then enter the fucking Arena!
Here’s a little secret that few students know. Success is built on a boatload of failures. The road to success is trying a million things, discarding the many that fail, and continuing on the few that...
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Win $2πK
I had this awesome idea for a marketing event at a conference. Brilliant. Would get a gigantic response. Except… the cost was not worth the return for us. So here is the idea for anyone else to use.
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This is Not Your Father’s Microsoft
Most people reporting about Build missed the big story from Microsoft. It was a classic example of not seeing the forest because of concentrating on the trees. There has been a gigantic cultural change...
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Everything You Need to Know About License Keys
You’re going to create license keys for your product and you figure the hard part is the license checks. No. The part that will bite you in the ass is not having necessary properties in the key. You...
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Is there a setting or 3rd party app for Exchange to hold up messages during...
I’ve got a major problem at work that when people go on vacation – they keep checking their work email. Is there some way I can set it so that during an employee’s vacation time, that incoming email...
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Idiot's guide to Entity Framework by an idiot
Quick run down on EF and how I think best to use it. And how to avoid some pitfalls.
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Is It the Weekend?
The .NET class CultureInfo.DateTimeFormat (which returns a DateTimeFormatInfo object) has properties for most everything around a date. Except… There is no way to determine what days are a weekend. So...
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What should I do with all my computer games?
How do I find them a good home? I have over 200 games from the golden age (the picture above is about 1/3 of them). I have a ton of wonderful memories of all the time I spent lost in them. However, I...
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What to Look For in Your First Job
One semester to go and you graduate. No more tests, no more projects, no more defining your success with a grade each semester. But now comes a giant question – which job do you take? (This is written...
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Poll: Do you fill out your name & email to get a white paper?
We had a major “discussion” at lunch today where the marketing people said developers are willing to provide contact information (name & email) to get a white paper. And several of us on the...
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How Microsoft Is Taking Over The Cloud
Microsoft Azure is accelerating past every other cloud infrastructure provider. Amazon, Apple, Google, Rackspace, and all the others are being left in the dust.
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