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How to teach your girlfriend Hexadecimal?
06 May 09 04:49 PM | MattManela | 1 Comments   
It is an age old question: How do you teach your girlfriend hex? I encountered this problem when I was a web developer in college for a late night student activities program aptly named Late Nite Binghamton. My co-worker and girlfriend Mallory was a graduate Read More...
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Snippet Designer in April’s MSDN Magazine!
14 April 09 04:33 PM | MattManela | 1 Comments   
I am excited to announce that the Snippet Designer is featured in the April issue of MSDN Magazine.                    It is featured in the Toolbox column where they highlight useful tools and blogs. Read More...
Snippet Designer 1.1 Released
05 January 09 06:11 PM | MattManela | 3 Comments   
I just released Snippet Designer 1.1.  This is not a major release but just some bug fixes and often requested changes to make the snippet designer more useful.   Some of the most notable changes are: Languages Service are turned OFF by default Read More...
When I am finally starting to get a handle on Monads...
05 April 08 11:59 PM | MattManela | 0 Comments   
When I am finally starting to get a handle on Monads I discovered Arrows and I am thrown back into confusion. At least that is how it feels. In my exploration of Haskell I have spent a good deal of time trying to completely grasp and understand Monads. Read More...
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The best game EVER
08 March 08 04:53 PM | MattManela | 1 Comments   
Note: This post may be subject to gross use of hyperbole. By far the best game in the history of man is: Fuel Pipe on Skype Skype has a bunch of built in games which you can play with the person to whom you are talking. These games are good since they Read More...
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I was on DotNetRocks!!!
20 February 08 11:32 AM | MattManela | 2 Comments   
A couple week ago I had an interview with the DotNetRocks folks.  In this interview I discussed the MSDN Code Gallery and I also discuss ed my time as an intern at Microsoft.  It was really fun recording this and my interviewers Carl and Richard Read More...
My attempt at a web comic
08 December 07 08:35 AM | MattManela | 1 Comments   
Last year my girlfriend Mallory Emerson drew my attention to a web comic called Dinosaur Comics . It is really funny and inspired me to try to make my own. So while I was in class one day (not the most interesting Information Retrieval lecture) I drew Read More...
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Windows Media Player Problem AND Solution
05 October 07 09:33 AM | MattManela | 1 Comments   
I am the proud owner of a iriver clix portable media player. I have had it for about a year now and I have had no complaints. It works beautifully. When I first got it I had some concerns about using Windows Media Player. The clix is made to work best Read More...
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Things I have learnt about Seattle...
21 August 07 10:20 PM | MattManela | 1 Comments   
At the beginning of August I moved out to Seattle from New York and since then I have learned some things about this city: People in Seattle dislike Starbucks but are inexorably drawn to constantly go there. Everyone complains how Starbucks sold out and Read More...
First Post!
17 August 07 07:32 PM | MattManela | 1 Comments   
Welcome to my first blog post as a Microsoft employee. I work for a team who is truly focused on building a better community around Microsoft developer technologies and tools. I hope I can use this blog to spread information, tips and maybe a few funny Read More...
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