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Adobe Kuler

August 01, 2012
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When I saw the Windows 8 Metro interface for the first time I was fascinated by the fluidity, motion, font and … the ...

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Distinct LINQ

July 30, 2012
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I have written about LINQ in the past and I truly believe it is the gateway to a better way of programming, ...

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Meta tags and links

July 19, 2012
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Most of the traffic for PoppaString comes from web searches and most of those searches originate from Google. However, ...

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Blogging with Office 2013

July 18, 2012
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So I am writing this blog post from Office 2013, specifically Word 2013. I assiduously avoided the purchase of Office ...

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Try, Catch and Try again

July 09, 2012
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I have had some really interesting discussions recently on a variety of well intentioned but poorly constructed ...

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Vizio gets into PCs

July 08, 2012
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Two things I did not realize about Vizio: It is a relatively small American company (about 400 employees) Vizio is ...

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HTML5 and online banking

July 05, 2012
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I was given a great article by my manager recently discussing potential effects of HTML5 on the banking industry. The ...

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Hardware vs. Software (Clash of the Titans)

June 28, 2012
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In my previous post on Microsoft Surface I was attempting to highlight the reasons why Microsoft would deliberately ...

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Microsoft Surface

June 18, 2012
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Just a few short hours ago if you had said Microsoft Surface, it would have conjured images of a huge touch screen in ...

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