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Code.org

February 26, 2013
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Code.org is a non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programming education. They have the noble goal of ...

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Browser Development Tools Basics

February 19, 2013
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For a period of about 18 months I was involved in the initial design and deployment of an ASP.NET project that included ...

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Sharing OneNote documents with iOS

February 10, 2013
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I just completed the sufficiently maddening experience of attempting to share a OneNote document to multiple people on ...

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Bing Rewards for Xbox Live

January 23, 2013
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I am a veracious Xbox user, I spend time playing games, watching movies, browsing for useful YouTube videos, catching ...

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Truly Random

January 14, 2013
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One of the apps I have been working on recently required that I present the user with a truly random sequence of ...

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Adobe CS2 for free!

January 13, 2013
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I am all about free software (legitimate of course) and so I was extremely surprised to see Adobe make CS2 available ...

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Workstations to Ultrabooks

January 13, 2013
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I was handed a brand new workstation last week and I am simply flawed at the size and weight of the thing compared to ...

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The Catastrophe of Success by Tennessee Williams

January 08, 2013
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I hold Tennessee Williams in the highest regard within the landscape of 20th Century American literature. I recently ...

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How to stop your Twitter account from sending spam

December 19, 2012
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So the last few days I have seen several friends send me DMs that they themselves did not create. The messages were ...

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