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2012

May

• 05/17 A review of Outliers: The Story of Success
• 05/13 System Center Operations Manager< Storage Account for Windows Azure Could Not be Discovered
• 05/11 Unable to update database to match the current model because there are pending changes.
• 05/10 Using Entity Framework Database Migrations to Update a Remote SQL Azure Database
• 05/09 How to Enable Remote Desktop and Generate an Encrypted Password in Windows Azure
• 05/04 ErrorCode<ERRCA0017>:SubStatus<ES0006>:There is a temporary failure. Please retry later.

April

• 04/27 Entity Framework Code First Migrations TargetInvocationException Fix
• 04/25 Fixing the "One of the request inputs is out of range error" in Windows Azure.
• 04/24 Using Github as a Syntax Highlighter for Your Blog or Website
• 04/19 Windows Azure Role Instances are Taking Longer Than Expected to Start

March

• 03/12 Looking for a new job? Tell Github.

February

• 02/15 Introducing GitCV - Show off your programming awesomeness.

January

• 01/24 The First Few Heuristics
• 01/24 Introducing Tipster
• 01/18 End Piracy, Not Liberty
• 01/06 Tweaking Heuristics for Better Results
• 01/05 Lessons Learned: How Do I Run This Locally?
• 01/04 How much do you bill per hour as a freelancer?
• 01/04 A Typical Development Workflow
• 01/03 Intro to Ratcheting Presentation Slides
• 01/02 Assessing Which Risk Heuristics to Implement in the Radiator
• 01/01 Continuous Code Improvement Using Ratcheting

2011

December

• 12/29 A new blog for the new year
• 12/01 Unit Testing JavaScript using BDD and Jasmine

November

• 11/15 Creating Item Recommendations by Finding Users with Similar Taste
• 11/10 Notes From the Field: Breaking Down User Stories
• 11/04 Random Friday Thoughts: Leaving a Legacy Online is Free
• 11/01 Using LINQ to sum up a list of numbers

October

• 10/31 Happy Halloween at Southwest Airlines
• 10/18 How to get a temp directory in any OS with Ruby

September

• 09/18 Quick and Dirty: How to Uninstall All Ruby Gems
• 09/12 Let's make it more difficult to get code into trunk
• 09/05 An Introduction to TDD at 10,000 feet
• 09/02 Using Ruby to get information about a Git or Subversion commit

August

• 08/22 NumberText: Converting numbers into words in C#

July

• 07/20 Some Thoughts on Automated Testing and the Impact it has on Corporate Culture
• 07/15 Later Equals Never

June

• 06/14 Using bind() to Write Even Less Code with jQuery
• 06/13 Mark Cuban shows how to be a leader

May

• 05/26 What You Need to Know to Get Started With jQuery
• 05/17 Using a Content Delivery Network to host jQuery

April

• 04/21 Why Can't All Software Work Like This?
• 04/13 Shortening URLs with uURL
• 04/13 How to Get Your Entire Work Item History in TFS
• 04/06 Generating Random Data with DataBot

March

• 03/14 Generating an XML Document Using LINQ to XML
• 03/10 Where Did My Master Pages Go?! An Introduction to Layouts in ASP .NET MVC 3
• 03/06 Enabling ASP .NET MVC 3 on Shared Web Hosting

February

• 02/24 Converting Numbers Between Bases in .NET
• 02/20 Efficient Page Reloading in ASP .NET
• 02/18 Need a License for Your Project? Try the Open Source Public License!
• 02/16 How to set a default browser when debugging in VisualStudio 2010
• 02/08 Good Practices to Follow Before Checking in Source Code

January

• 01/27 Now I know how they felt when sliced bread came out
• 01/19 Boycott a Meeting Today
• 01/11 Pick Any Two

2010

December

• 12/17 Merry Christmas!
• 12/08 Putting the Three Rules of TDD Into Practice

November

• 11/23 Fixing the "TypeInitializationException was unhandled" exception
• 11/22 Practice Better
• 11/16 Using jQuery to Dynamically Disable and Enable an Element

October

• 10/27 Which Programming Language Should I Use to Build My Application?
• 10/20 10,000 StackOverflow Rep!
• 10/19 A List Apart; The Survey for People Who Make Websites 2010
• 10/10 LoanGeek.net a Simple Online Mortgage Calculator
• 10/06 Validating Input with ASP .NET MVC 2

September

• 09/28 Never Deliver a Prototype
• 09/24 Don't Blame the Person. Blame the Problem.
• 09/14 Google auto unsubscribe helps reduce spam even more
• 09/03 Using Extension Methods in .NET

August

• 08/27 Grouping Radio Buttons in ASP .NET MVC 2
• 08/23 How to properly style HTML tables
• 08/17 A Simple College Prank
• 08/03 Are You a Student? Great, Here's a Free One-Year Amazon Prime Subscription

July

• 07/27 Disallow: /harming/humans. A lesson in Easter Eggs from Last.fm
• 07/17 Creating a Google Custom Search Engine to Search Your Favorite Sites.

June

• 06/12 Setting an MP3 as Your Alarm on the Android
• 06/11 Setting an MP3 as Your Alarm on the HTC EVO
• 06/10 LifeHack; Getting More At Starbucks
• 06/06 Installing Git on Windows with msysgit
• 06/06 A Sneak Peak at Office 2010
• 06/04 Microsoft, What Happened?!
• 06/02 Using Stopwatches and Timers in .NET
• 06/01 Need More Time to Get Stuff Done? Try Sprinting.

May

• 05/23 Iterating Through a Dictionary in C#
• 05/16 How to Add an RSS Feed to Any Website
• 05/12 Share the Awesomeness; Creating Cheap (and Easy) Technical Videos.
• 05/06 Thwarting Spammers With reCAPTCHA
• 05/02 Expressing Many-to-Many Relationships in Hibernate

April

• 04/24 How to Make Sure Your Website is Classified Properly With McAfee TrustedSource
• 04/20 Write Better Code; Using Nullable With C#
• 04/17 Writing a Simple URL Reverser Using C#
• 04/11 Bill Gates Open Letter to Hobbyists from 1976
• 04/06 Handling Foreign Key Constraints in SQL

March

• 03/28 Why Training Classes Suck and 3 Things You Can Do About It
• 03/21 Honing Your Programming Skills with Project Euler
• 03/13 Creating a Fluid Two-Column Layout With a Single Fixed Width Column
• 03/07 Creating Algorithmic Art Using Processing
• 03/01 OSGi Development with Knopflerfish – Part 3: The Execution

February

• 02/28 OSGi Development with Knopflerfish – Part 2: The Code
• 02/23 OSGi Development with Knopflerfish – Part 1: The Setup
• 02/20 Using &if and [Conditional()] to Keep Debug Code Under Control
• 02/17 Sending Email in ASP .NET
• 02/13 Getting Started With Git and TortoiseGit on Windows
• 02/12 Working With Custom Time Strings in C#
• 02/01 Using .NET to Monitor a Directory for Changes

January

• 01/09 Wrapping up DevDays Austin 2009
• 01/08 DevDays Austin: Eric Jones on Python
• 01/07 DevDays Austin: Jonathan Johnson on iPhone Development
• 01/06 DevDays Austin: Peter Mourfield on ASP .NET MVC
• 01/05 DevDays Austin: Jonathan Sharp on jQuery
• 01/04 DevDays Austin: Damien Katz on CouchDB
• 01/03 DevDays Austin: Jason Cohen on Why Code Review Doesn't Have to Suck
• 01/01 myBlog.createNew();