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Science Fiction Book Review: Accelerando by Charles Stross: I recently finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross and I thought it was a great book… it does exactly what I want from a future-focused science fiction book… it takes plausible advances from today and takes them to their logical extremes. Read More...
Posted 21 July 09 09:33 by BradA | 7 Comments
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A new generation of programmers begins: I have started teaching my 6-year old son logo as our summer learning project. My goal is to help him discover the creativity and logical thinking approach that programming requires. And, of course to share a passion that I have with him, so there Read More...
Posted 09 June 09 08:16 by BradA | 49 Comments
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Book Review: Outliers: I just finished up Outliers: The Story of Success tonight…. Gladwell is a masterful story teller. You can not walk away from this book without thinking about the world differently. Rather than seeing success as a "lucky-break” or Read More...
Posted 10 April 09 08:23 by BradA | 16 Comments
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Top Ten Reasons Why The Most Important Machine Is Unlabeled: Today is office move day across much of .NET Framework land.. Good folks across building 41 and 42 are doing a little shuffling around… As part of the move, we all had to be out of the office today. Like any good manager, I wanted to keep my team productive Read More...
Posted 11 February 09 08:57 by BradA | 18 Comments
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Need Windows Mobile Phone Recommendation: I am ready to replace my several year old Verizon XV6700… The 2 nd replacement battery is not keeping me through the day any more, it is way too heavy and my colleagues pick on my for using such old technology ;-) I have a pretty good deal with Read More...
Posted 12 November 08 09:02 by BradA | 45 Comments
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A Live Mesh Moment: While I was out in the bush near Krueger national park in South Africa recently I found a great use for Live Mesh ... After a full day of seeing some excellent big game I had a ton of photos to show for my effort. Later that night, back in the lodge, Read More...
Posted 15 July 08 09:35 by BradA | 11 Comments
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Very Simple .NET Thumbnail Creation Code: When I was working the update for my Ajax demo , I needed to create thumb nail from a director of photos. There are tons of tools out there to do this, but I thought I'd share the very simple code I used. It takes all the jpgs in the root path and creates Read More...
Posted 10 July 08 09:15 by BradA | 9 Comments
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I have a theory... help me prove it!: I have a theory that you can't build amazingly great products if you don't deeply know the customer. An d the best way to get the visceral and lasting impression is to physically go see the customer work in their own environment. This where I need your Read More...
Posted 20 September 07 09:48 by BradA | 10 Comments
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Ready for Houston TechFest Tomorrow?: Well, I got into Houston late last night and now all I have to do is talk to a few customers and fix up my demos for tomorrow’s TechFest 2007 ! This is a FREE event, brought to you by the good folks at the Houston .NET Users group (and their generous Read More...
Posted 24 August 07 05:39 by BradA | 3 Comments
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Devscovery in Redmond, WA and Silicon Valley: The good folks at Wintellect are putting on a conference focused on the latest of Microsoft technologies in Redmond and Silicon Valley (both at the Microsoft ft campus). This is a great chance to get some training from industry experts. Devscovery (August Read More...
Posted 01 August 07 04:46 by BradA | 1 Comments
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Visual Studio in Second Life: Did you know that Microsoft is investing in Second Life? That is right... we recently bought an island and have developed it with some really cool stuff. Check out the details here https://www.visualstudioisland.com/ I am all for new, cutting edge stuff, Read More...
Posted 28 June 07 09:19 by BradA | 16 Comments
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Help! My hard disk crashed: The kitchen laptop crashed today with a few weeks worth of unbacked up information (including pictures of the kids recent birthday party, and the like…) I tried booting off the XP recovery disk and running chkdsk, but about 60% of the way in I get an Read More...
Posted 22 June 07 10:32 by BradA | 45 Comments
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Defy All Challenges - Video Posted: I love the new VS " Defy All Challenges " theme.. One of the thing that gets me up in the morning (ok, more likely staying up at night) is the idea that we are helping development teams across the world create amazingly better solutions to their everyday Read More...
Posted 11 April 07 05:26 by BradA | 5 Comments
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Reason #73 that JavaScript is mainstream...: Well, I knew that JavaScript was becoming more mainstream, but I didn't realize it had reached this level.. Wired Al Yankovic's new song White & Nerdy mentions JavaScript right along with Klingon ... What's next? Ajax in a country music song? How Read More...
Posted 28 March 07 11:29 by BradA | 2 Comments
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A .NET Valentines: A reader just sent me these two .NET love stores... They are great! .NET - A Love Story .NET Love Story Continues... My wife asked me to write her poetry, but I suspect that is not what she hand in mind... How about you, did you get or give any great Read More...
Posted 15 February 07 09:50 by BradA | 0 Comments
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