Mark Downie - PoppaString

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March 17, 2013
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One of the wonderful things about the new Windows Runtime is that it provides a comprehensive means for accessing the ...

March 12, 2013
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Every once in a while I get asked to design systems that require passing a simple user id and password to authenticate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...