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Evil Phil · 2009-09-18 10:23:49

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…

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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
Part 6
Part 7

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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#6 07-10-2009 4:55pm

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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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#7 11-10-2009 7:51pm

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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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#10 15-10-2009 1:13pm

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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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#13 25-10-2009 3:41pm

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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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#14 27-10-2009 2:26am

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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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Installing SyntaxHighlighter 2.1 on Blogger

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#16 28-10-2009 6:11pm

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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

I must be doing something right: Content Stealing

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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#18 20-11-2009 12:05pm

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SQL Server 2008 Edition Comparison for Windows Forms Developers

Fixing rsAccessDenied on Vista / Windows 7

Upcoming Webcasts

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#19 25-11-2009 12:42pm

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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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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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#23 17-02-2010 7:00pm

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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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#26 10-03-2010 11:57pm

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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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#30 29-04-2010 12:44am

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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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