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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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Technical User Groups in Columbus Ohio - 2016

December 12, 2016
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I have had the genuine pleasure of living in Central Ohio for almost 9 years, during that time Columbus has transformed ...

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Full Windows on a Mobile chip

December 07, 2016
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Microsoft has been backing away from the smartphone market, conceding that the mobile market has been won by iOS and ...

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Remote Pair Programming

December 06, 2016
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Pair programming is an agile development technique where two developers share one workstation, one of the developers ...

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Design Patterns - Builder

December 01, 2016
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The Builder pattern is one of several well documented Creational patterns, unlike the others though it is primarily ...

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Learning all about Xamarin

November 28, 2016
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I spent my fair share of time creating apps for Windows Phones, all the way through this process I questioned whether I ...

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Broad brush strokes

November 24, 2016
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I am a huge fan of Troy Hunt I read everything he posts and have gone through a fair few of his plural sight courses. I ...

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