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I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
I was browsing the web today, as I often do, with my iPhone on the can. (Yeah, you do it too, don't front.)
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You're just another carriage return line feed in the wall
I love getting pull requests on GitHub. It's such a lovely gift when someone wants to contribute their code to my code. However, it seems there are three kinds of pull requests that I get.
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Being a Remote Worker Sucks - Long Live the Remote Worker
I've been a 100% remote worker at Microsoft for just about 5 years now. My last two jobs were both 7 year long gigs, so this isn't the longest I've worked somewhere, but clocking in at a half-decade,...
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Programming's not for you? How about thinking? Be empowered
There seems to be two extremes of this whole "Learn to Code" movement which has come to a crescendo with the "What most schools don't teach" video from Code.org. People seem to fall on the side of...
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Installing Sendy (a PHP app) on Windows Azure to send inexpensive newsletter...
Sendy.co is a lovely and polished PHP app that uses Amazon's SES (Simple Email Service) to send email on the cheap. It's easy to setup PHP apps on Windows Azure. Azure Websites don't support...
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Moving old apps from IIS6 to IIS8 and why Classic Mode exists
I had an interesting emailed question today. Here's a paraphrased one sentence version of the question: Why does an ASP.NET Runtime issue surface in IIS 8.0 Integrated Pool for an application we have...
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Fallback HTML5 audio tags for a simple MP3 podcast are harder than you'd think
Ya, Firefox currently doesn't support MP3 audio so it just flashes once then disappears. Firefox will support MP3s in audio soon though by using the underlying operating system to play the stream...
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Changing ASP.NET web.config inheritance when mixing versions of child...
My blog and all the sites in and around it are a mix of .NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4. This blog engine is currently .NET 3.5 and runs at http://hanselman.com/blog, but the application at http://hanselman.com/...
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Pinching pennies when scaling in The Cloud
Running a site in the cloud and paying for CPU time with pennies and fractions of pennies is a fascinating way to profile your app. I mean, we all should be profiling our apps, right? Really paying...
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Streaming Diagnostics Trace Logging from the Azure Command Line (plus Glimpse!)
I’ve long said when in doubt, turn on tracing. Sometimes "got here"-debugging is a great tool. I tend to use System.Diagnostics.Trace a lot in my code. Then I'll use ELMAH or Glimpse to get more...
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Windows task manager shows wrong CPU Speed when using Hyper-V
My buddy Damian and I both recently bought the Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch. It's got Intel SpeedStep technology so it changes the CPU speed dynamically based on load. These two laptops of ours are...
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Penny Pinching Video: Moving an Azure Website between data centers
I talked about Pinching pennies when scaling in The Cloud last week when I added jQuery lazy loading to my podcast's Website. I wanted to avoid paying any unnecessary bandwidth costs. The result was...
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Project-less scripted C# with ScriptCS and Roslyn
Every few years someone tries to turn C# into a competent scripting world, myself included. Often this has included batch files and MacGyver magic, file associations and hacks. Clearly the .NET...
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CDNs fail, but your scripts don't have to - fallback from CDN to local jQuery
There's a great website called http://whoownsmyavailability.com that serves as a reminder to me (and all of us) that external dependencies are, in fact, external. As such, they are calculated risks...
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One ASP.NET: Nancy.Templates for Visual Studio
I hope you've updated to Visual Studio 2012.2 and picked up Web Essentials because we're continuing to add goodness all the time. As we march forward with the One ASP.NET vision, so does the community....
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Redirecting ASP.NET Legacy URLs to Extensionless with the IIS Rewrite Module
ASP.NET has included support for "friendly URLs" for a while now. ASP.NET MVC has always supported friendly URLs and more recently, so has Web Forms. That means if you don't want to have the .aspx...
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Xamarin Evolve 2013 Talk Video - How C# Saved My Marriage
In case you haven't heard, Xamarin is a fabulous company with amazing products and their Evolve 2013 conference was absolutely smashing. I was fortunate enough to speak at Xamarin Evolve 2013 in Austin...
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How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or...
A buddy of mine was thinking to move some of his Linux-based website to Azure. If you're running a Web Site that this node.js, ASP, ASP.NET, or PHP, it's easiest to use Azure Web Sites. I showed how to...
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JavaScript is Web Assembly Language and that's OK
Some years ago I said that JavaScript is the Assembly Language of the Web. In fact, lots of people said it, because it's true. Later, some folks disagreed, saying that this is an inaccurate analogy. Of...
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Is the Windows user ready for apt-get?
Chocolatey lets you install Windows applications quickly from the command line via a central catalog of installation scripts. You could install Git, 7Zip or even Microsoft Office (given a key.) The...
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