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What Are My Tweeps Using?

What Are My Tweeps Using?

Have you ever wondered what Twitter client was the most popular for a given hash tag? I did. Now I have pie charts.

Feb 5, 2012     Comments Off
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DevTO Presentation Slides

DevTO Presentation Slides

Slides from my PivotViewer talk at #DevTO

Feb 1, 2012     Comments Off
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Ladies Learning Code Introduction to WordPress Next Steps

Ladies Learning Code Introduction to WordPress Next Steps

Following yesterdays Ladies Learning Code Introduction to Wordpress, I've compiled some next steps for our new developers.

Jan 16, 2012     1 Comment
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In Defense of MySpace

In Defense of MySpace

MySpace is often thought of a backwards web property for the modifications they let their users make. But behind those awful profile pages was some very impressive, and open sorce, .Net software.

Jul 28, 2011     Comments Off
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Silverlight vs HTML5 Is Stupid

Silverlight vs HTML5 Is Stupid

When Bob Muglia said "Our Silverlight strategy and focus going forward has shifted." at PDC 2010, he probably didn't know the can of worms he was opening.

Nov 4, 2010     Comments Off
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Microsoft and Open source, At Least They’re Trying

Microsoft and Open source, At Least They’re Trying

After much fanfare at it's launch, Microsoft will be renaming NuPack (the open source .Net package management tool) due to a naming conflict.

Oct 22, 2010     Comments Off
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Automated Testing Using Page Objects and WebDriver

Automated Testing Using Page Objects and WebDriver

When writing your automated test scripts it is helpful to abstract your interface from the assertions. One helpful method to [...]

Sep 5, 2010     9 Comments
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Castle Project ActiveRecord for ASP.Net Tutorial: Part 1 Introduction and a Single Table

Castle Project ActiveRecord for ASP.Net Tutorial: Part 1 Introduction and a Single Table

I recently began working with Castle ActiveRecord. It is an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tool for .Net applications. If you’re [...]

Mar 23, 2010     8 Comments
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JavaScript and SQL using Rhino and SQLite

JavaScript and SQL using Rhino and SQLite

My previous posts have revolved around running JavaScript in environments outside of the browser. After the disappointment of Microsoft dropping [...]

Jul 3, 2009     2 Comments
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Still Waiting: The Story of Two Anticipated But Absent JavaScript Projects Pt 2

In my previous post I bemoaned the languishing existence of Managed Jscript. Since then I’ve come across this thread on [...]

Jun 13, 2009     Comments Off
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