Category: Technology
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Champa Cam
This is what I had to do to get images from my home to the web… Motivation I travel from time to time and would like to see what’s going on at my home. At least what the weather is like. So I asked a friend (a web cam guru) what I should do. The…
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Great Resource for TFS Integration
This is a great site for programmatically connecting to TFS (Team Foundation Server) to perform certain tasks. Shai Raiten’s blog : http://beta.blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/shair/archive/tags/TFS+API/default.aspx
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Software Architecture–Do One Thing Very Well
As I look at nature, I’m struck by the idea that for truly reusable software you must architect it following the principle that it must do one thing and only one thing very well. Think about it for a moment… We are all made up of atoms. Individual units that generally stand the test of…
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Strategic Productivity–Ask the right question
Headline: Balance is required to chose the right approach when developing. If you only ask the question, “What is the fastest way for me to get this done?” your skills will become dull very quickly. What’s the Right Question? When someone is asked to produce some functionality there is a lot of inertia. Inertia from…
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Live Gallery Gone Without a Replacement
Today I went to look for an improved Weather Gadget for my desktop… The one that ships with Windows was showing the outside temperature at 19 degrees when in fact it was actually 52 degrees. That doesn’t help me much, so I went to look for a better Gadget. I right clicked on the Desktop…
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My Dell U3011 Monitor Won’t Display 2560×1600
HEADLINE: Try using the DisplayPort cable that shipped with it. I got the new Dell U3011 Monitor today – 30” monitor capable of up to 2560×1600 resolution. It ships with three cables – DVI (Dual Link), VGA, and DisplayPort. The DVI is attached and all the instructions show that you can use the 2560×1600 resolution…
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Unit Testing Your JavaScript
This falls into the category of something I want to remember… so I’m putting it here… Unit Test 101: Are You Testing Your JavaScript? As Microsoft seems to have been blocked on their XAML everywhere strategy as a cross-platform strategy they seem to be looking now to HTML5 and JavaScript. I was enthusiastic about the…
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Changing the Patch on My Uniform
I’ve decided to pursue my passion for developing great software (for the oil and gas industry) at a new company. The Military Perspective When I was in the U.S. Army Reserves for 10 years I had occasion to change units – or companies – several times. For example, when I moved from Denver to Houston…