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Monday, October 20, 2003 3:49 AM

The 'start' command from CMD

Another little CMD window utility that I learned recently: start . I just typed start /? and I learned way more than what I was expecting. I usually just use it when I want to open a Explorer window at my current location. c:\foobar\> start . This
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Monday, October 20, 2003 3:41 AM

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html It's fun the things one finds when clicking around blog rolls. Windows Messenger 5 was the first application I worked on at Microsoft. I was put in charge of localization and I learned an amazing amount.
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Sunday, October 19, 2003 3:28 PM

Using UNC paths from CMD: PushD & PopD

This has to be one of the most useful features I never new about (until about 4 weeks ago). C:\Documents and Settings\kmoore\Desktop> pushd \\server\userfiles\kmoore Z:\kmoore> copy myfile.txt d: 1 file(s) copied. Z:\kmoore> popd C:\Documents
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Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:37 AM

Have you heard of BitTorrent?

Super-fast downloads over a distributed mesh...
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Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:29 AM

Unifying Tables, Objects and Documents

Finally, a solution for dealing with data!
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Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:15 PM

Mozilla 1.5 is out today

I'm a lover of all things software, regardless of their origin or licensing. Mozilla 1.5 came out today and I happily downloaded it. Seems like the only improvements are in Tabs, but I've been more and more impressed with each new release. Check it out.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:04 PM

First post: A conversation with Anders Hejlsberg

This is my first blog entry. Pretty exciting. I'm sure once the PDC gets rolling, I'll have other details for this page. For now, I wanted to share an interesting set of interviews with Anders Hejlsberg, Distinguished Engineer for C# and the Common
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