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Evil Phil · 2009-09-18 10:23:49

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If you've had something about software development published online, either on your own blog or on another site then post a link here.

Please only post links to your own material, we don't need a dozen links all pointing to Scott Gu's latest.

Probably not the best place for a discussion so, as part of an A/B experiment, if you're posting on here then please also start a new thread with the same link in it.

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#2 25-09-2009 4:09pm

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Might as well start the ball rolling so...

Duct Tape Considered Harmful

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#3 28-09-2009 7:10am

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Add some bits.. its a cross post from the IT Certification forum but hey, its kinda relevant

I created a checklist for this exam which is a collection of links to the relevant MSDN articles.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
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Hope this helps

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#4 29-09-2009 10:05pm

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What started as just a page to get a nasty result on my name off the main screen on google turned into my blog....

http://tadhgpearson.wordpress.com/

Maybe nothing that new to many of you, but it logs a few of the potholes on the voyage of discovery!

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#5 06-10-2009 5:23pm

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Getting the VisTablet graphics tablet to work under Debian squeeze.
Which was a bit of a pain in the assembler.

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A look at what mobile app platform to target from the latest usage statistics. iPhone vs Android vs N900

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MCTS ASP.NET 3.5 70-562 Objective Checklist

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

Reseeding all identity columns in a MS SQL database

MS Press training kit errata

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#8 11-10-2009 11:50pm

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Port of the Django template system from python to Qt/C++:
http://steveire.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/some-clarifications-regarding-grantlee/

And using it to theme/render emails:
http://steveire.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/email-rendering-with-grantlee/

Sharing PIM data between KDE4 and PyGtk applications through Akonadi:
http://steveire.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/holy-grail-no-thanks-weve-already-got-one/

There's a vidcast of that coming in the next few days.

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#9 15-10-2009 1:11pm

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Wi-Fi Direct a bomb? 4 reasons why Bluetooth is perfectly safe.

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A day in SharePoint hell

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#11 23-10-2009 11:32pm

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More bodges, more speed.

Probably belongs in the Coding Horror thread though!

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Five million people see a classic case of calling random() without reseeding

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Steveire wrote: »

Sharing PIM data between KDE4 and PyGtk applications through Akonadi:
http://steveire.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/holy-grail-no-thanks-weve-already-got-one/

There's a vidcast of that coming in the next few days.

I published the screencast of this about two weeks ago:

Cross platform Akonadi video

I also wrote and screencasted another use of the python api with javascript to get the pim data into a web browser and maintain it there.

Akonadi goes Web 2.0

More interesting stuff coming out of this area later.

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Joel Spolsky, Snake-Oil Salesman

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#15 27-10-2009 9:26am

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Objective List with MSDN links for 70-505 MCTS Windows Forms

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Speeding up the start up of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

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#17 11-11-2009 8:22am

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Fixing an rsAccessDenied with SQL ReportViewer control

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Windows Server 2008 R2 EE x64 180day Trial VHD

The Pros and Cons of IT Certification

Upcoming SharePoint 2010 certifications

Complete 70-505 objectives with MSDN link series

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SQL Server 2008 Edition Comparison for Windows Forms Developers

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Better to be a specialist or a generalist when it comes to web development?

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First experiences with Google Wave

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#21 07-12-2009 4:48pm

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TweetPhoto API tutorial in VB.NET

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#22 16-02-2010 6:18pm

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The Self Trained Programmer Myth - some of you will recognise this from a previous discussion here.

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Flexible Skeleton Template for Joomla

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Project Issues Management with Google Apps.

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Seeing as how there's no blog thread in Mobile Apps:

Mobile World Congress 2010

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At the risk of getting Conor all competitive

Performance tuning a server in less than three minutes while being slashdotted

(with thanks to Conor and Rew for bouncing ideas off and suggestions!)

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Continuing Professional Development – does your company do enough for you?

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Doing a free trial of the Nokia N900

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N900 unboxing.

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Graph API

Wrote a script to learn a bit about the Facebook Graph API and decided to make a blog post about it, probably a bit wall-of-text-esque and not very interesting but I was bored :P.
It's just about 80 lines of Python code to get your friends IDs, and links too all photos they have :P, a bit stalkerish but it's the first thing I thought of.

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Nokia N900 -v- Nokia E71.

Still working on the post on Python on the N900.

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Getting started with python development on the Nokia N900 (in 27 minutes)

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#33 03-05-2010 8:11pm

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Seeing as it's quite on-topic in this thread recently:

Prototype of the KDE PIM/Akonadi stack on the N900.

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10 things I love about the N900 (and 10 things I hate about it too).

and the last post resulting from the free trial of the N900:

Why the Nokia N900 is fundamentally better than an iPhone and will remain so.

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Finally got round to open-sourcing my linux driver for the Ajeco andi-servo motion control board.

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Some notes on interviewing with Google.

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This subject often comes up in the Dev forum, so I wrote a post on why I use and recommend WordPress as a CMS.

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#39 26-04-2011 7:12pm

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Among the random streams of stuff that I throw on my blog, programming articles often get thrown up there:

http://richardconroy.blogspot.com/search/label/programming

Also general software articles:

http://richardconroy.blogspot.com/search/label/software

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#40 14-06-2011 3:01pm

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I've created a website for myself, mainly to serve as a portfolio and technical blog of solutions to problems that I've encountered. I've only just started adding content, and have loads more to add so check back soon.

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#41 14-06-2011 3:36pm

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I built my first website in 2008 I think and I never really wanted to use anything like Wordpress or such so I just built it from scratch. Part of a redesign and changing the whole backend code I just launched it at claudiuceia.info and took out 99% of the articles.

I'm blogging about web and mobile development but also some C/C++ stuff from time to time. Not a lot of articles around there yet but you might want to check it out.

Also, might be worth mentioning it's not fully functional, meaning the search isn't implemented, projects and contact menu links not functional as well as tags and archive links on the sidebar. You can still read the articles though

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Didn't know whether to put it here or in the resources thread...

Programmer Competency Matrix

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http://eanna-canavan.blogspot.com/

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Just added a new blog post describing how to add a button to the Ribbon menu in Sharepoint 2010 to allow users email documents as attachments.

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#46 04-12-2011 5:48pm

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Sparks wrote: »

10 things I love about the N900 (and 10 things I hate about it too).

and the last post resulting from the free trial of the N900:

Why the Nokia N900 is fundamentally better than an iPhone and will remain so.

I love this blog man, but I'm just wondering? What are the advantages of a basic user? I'm sorry but I just love the iPhone and I can't really see how the n900 is THAT much better, I just see it in terms of choice? I did enjoy the blog and if the n900 is that much better, I'd really be interested in getting one. Is it for more programmers and stuff? Sorry...rookie question

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Not my article, but an excellent read all the same

http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review

This bloke posts some great code reviews and has open sources his own iOS shooter engine. I really like his coding style, it takes a lot of cues from Carmack's concise, well structured style of C. This style extends to the C++ source for the Another World VM interpreter he talks about in this article.

The guy also posted a guide on how to get Doom 3 building in OSX about a day after I figured it out!

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#48 26-01-2012 8:40am

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Blog post on SOPA/Irish SOPA and IP: Warning: Irish Government Pirating Your Rights

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#49 07-04-2012 12:11pm

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Blog/video on WordPress v3.4 beta, showing some of the new features compared to v3.3.1

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#50 19-06-2012 1:18pm

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Someone's done a followup to Patrick McKenzie's Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names, this time talking about time - Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time.

Both are well worth the read.

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#51 27-07-2012 2:14pm

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Only tangentially relevant to software development, here's a recent blog post I wrote on Ethics and SEO. Love to read anything you guys have on ethics in software development.

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