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Developing code beyond the Event Horizon

January 26, 2017
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'In general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary in space-time beyond which events cannot affect an outside ...

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Development process as a Black box not a Black hole

January 16, 2017
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I had one of those Twitter outburst last year that I realized mirrored a frustration I have seen manifest in every job ...

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Plugging Android vulnerabilities

January 10, 2017
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My smartphone is the most personal computing device I have ever owned, so if you were to gain unlocked access to it you ...

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ngrok - Tunnels to localhost

January 09, 2017
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One of the useful and frustrating thing about iterating through web development cycles is that Visual Studio, in ...

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Paying for content without Ads

January 05, 2017
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You have probably read the recent post from Ev Williams, here is an excerpt: The vast majority of articles, videos, and ...

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MSBuild - The Basics

January 05, 2017
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When I first started using Visual Studio .NET NAnt quickly became the de facto build tool. NAnt was billed as 'kind of ...

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2016 Recap

January 01, 2017
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This has been a fascinating year full of hacks and breaches with social, political and legal implications. Our world is ...

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Making it easier to read code than write

December 22, 2016
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Learning to read is that beautiful first step young children take in their early school years, there is though a ...

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Blogging into my 11th Year

December 15, 2016
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I started blogging 11 years ago today on Windows Live spaces, as I noted with my first post I had a particular aim in ...

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