Mark Downie - PoppaString

October 21, 2014
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I was doing some TFS training recently and was attempting to open a PowerPoint document and got this annoying error ...

October 20, 2014
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In the wake of the first connected digital devices old industries (music, books, film) began attempting to sell their ...

October 13, 2014
3 min read

A few days ago President Obama held a Town Hall with Members of the Cross Campus Community and was asked a rather open ...

October 09, 2014
4 min read

Microsoft Research (along with the Media Interaction Lab & the Institute of Surface Technologies and Photonics) have ...

October 06, 2014
6 min read

Hiring developers is always a difficult process, in part because after we produce concrete pieces of software we rarely ...

October 03, 2014
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By now you have probably read all the pertinent information from the Windows 10 announcement and if you are daring ...

September 17, 2014
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A couple of years after moving to the US I began work for a healthcare startup that was dealing with some serious ...

September 15, 2014
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Giving away free things is always good, in fact I have witnessed people jump through some pretty bizarre hoops just for ...

September 15, 2014
4 min read

I came across an interesting problem recently that reminded about why I both love and remain deeply suspicious of the ...