My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

The Dying Art of Computer Viruses

August 01, 2013
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I found this fascinating article on the art and history of computer viruses, it draws an interesting parallel to the ...

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Text editing with SkyDrive

July 30, 2013
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There has been some notable changes with SkyDrive mostly focused around speed, navigation and sharing but for me the ...

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Bicycle Share

July 29, 2013
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This summer the city of Columbus will be introducing a bike share (BikeShare – CoGo) system providing easy-to-use bikes ...

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Garbage Collection in .NET 4

July 23, 2013
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.NET Garbage Collector is  a very effective, high-speed allocation method with exceptional use of memory, and limited ...

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Pillars of Object Oriented Programming

July 21, 2013
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As part of my day job I am asked to interview prospective developers, and this process is incredibly difficult. The ...

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Hardware is very hard

July 20, 2013
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A couple of software companies are paying dearly for recent forays into matters of hardware. Google’s Q2 earnings hurt ...

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Programming Possibilities

July 10, 2013
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I am admittedly a fan of tablets, and over the last 2 years I have owned many of the popular brands, but I am worried ...

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AutoMapper Basics

June 25, 2013
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I have been seeing and using AutoMapper with greater frequency recently. Its premise is simple yet incredibly useful in ...

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Free Microsoft eBooks

June 21, 2013
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There is a sizeable collection of free Microsoft eBooks available here. The list includes a diverse troupe of SQL ...

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