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Stashy is a Really simple Key Value store

2019 By The Numbers

5 minutes to import CSV to a database: What do you do?

Secrets of Mastering Excel

TimeSnapper for Mac: Beta Testers Needed

2018 By The Numbers

I have some feedback for you...

How do you get things done?

I'm .ok you're .ok: introducing folder profiles for bash and powershell

2017 by the Numbers

2016 by the numbers:

The Joy of Making Simple Edits to Microsoft's Docs

6 different ways to run an asp.net core web application

Improvements to the Way MessageBox works, in latest Service Pack for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1

Post Slackathon Wrap up

Less than 3 days until the Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon.

The Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon

npm is not just for node... npm is for EVERYTHING

Console Is Forever

The Laggard's Guide to Getting Started with Asp.net 5 Using Yeoman.

Fixing Keyboard Functionality on MacBook Air after Upgrading to Windows 10.

Writing Your First Mercurial Extension

Pun-a-day service

Sweating the Small Stuff

NimbleSET 2.0: Death to the VLOOKUP!

Two Flies! Bet Now!

OfficeQuest... Gamification for the Office Suite

Happy new year 2014

A flowchart of what programmers do at work all day

Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie.

hgs: Manage Lots of Mercurial Projects Simultaneously

You Must Get It!

AddDays: A Very Simple Date Calculator

NimbleText 1.9 -- BoomTown!

Line Endings.

Harvey, a .net chat server built with RabbitMQ

So your domain has been stolen. What now?

Dialog Between a Man and His Vista Laptop

Rediscovering the Amstrad CPC 6128

Mind-boggling Demo of New Gaming Genre, aka Folder-Based Hangman, aka Fun with Recursion

NimbleText: Origins

The Windows 8 Mullet

Introducing Cosby, spontaneous striped background generator

Slides from WDCNZ: Live Coding Asp.net MVC3

MVC 3, "Third Times a Charm" references

Custom Errors in ASP.Net MVC: It couldn't be simpler, right?

Boring article about fixing a 'Login failed... untrusted domain' issue when connecting to SQL Server.

The 'less crashy' release of NimbleText

Rethinking Toolbars in Visual Studio (or any IDE)

Mercurial workflow for personal projects (with a .net bias)

I see you're using vim. Let me fix that for you.

A thank you I forgot to say

Grabbing the free songs of Jonathan Coulton (with Powershell)

SQLike: A simple editor

Fractal Feedback, a diversion into recreational programming

Sysi: the ultimate administrators toolkit

Movie: Priest Academy

The secretGeek Disaster Recovery plan

zen-coding: turn those CSS selectors upside down

Debugging: It's all about finding Albuquerque.

Windows Search in Japan

Matt, The Office Mortar

'Outlook style' rules for Subversion

hExcel -- A Hexagonal Spreadsheet

The Utterly Thorough Guide To Awesome Application Compatibility on Windows 7.

Recursing over the Pareto Principle...

A Non Warning, from Windows XP

In the enterprise, nothing is what it seems

Your next text editor is... MetaNote!

My code would suck less if...

A 3 minute guide to embedding IronPython in a C# application

8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.

Can You Cure the Copy/Paste Disease?

Don't make 'readonly' fields less readable

It's 2009 already -- where's my damn internet-based IDE??

Give and Take in the Software Industry

baby steps in microsoft robotics studio...

Hang in there, little buddy

An Open, Federated Award Ceremony

3 differences between 'Small Business' and 'Enterprise'

MVC Zen Garden

Downloadable Slide-decks: "Build your own Tiny Software Company"/"F# eye for the C# guy"

Simple Trouble Shooting Application Now Fixes Everything

secretGeek at Tech-Ed: "How to build your own Tiny Software Company"

Bambrick versus Hanselman: Bring it!

The Greatest Chalk Talk Known To Man: 'Better than a license to print money: Build Your Own Tiny Software Company'

Alan Kay on 'The Camel has Two Humps'

Idea: a poor man's eye-tracking heatmap for win forms

'The Register' seems to have plagiarised Mary Jo Foley

Fixing problems can give you a glimpse of something terrible

Do they store the code for TFS in TFS?

Sudden TimeSnapper Discount!

How Can Microsoft Beat Google?

21 tools used in our MicroISV

Should Linq To Sql Go "Open Source"?

Redux: New Synchronisation Idea Overlooked By Microsoft

New Synchronisation Idea Overlooked By Microsoft Live team

Visual Studio UX Taskforce, Office UX Taskforce... etc.

What To (Really) Do If You Find Out Your Parents Are Using Vista (redux)

What To Do If You Find Out Your Parents Are Using Vista

TimeSnapper 3.0 -- an interactive, bubbling cauldron of possibilities

Google AppEngine: evil virus or viral evil?

Workflow software: I'm calling the bluff.

F# Eye for the C# guy

Anonymous Methods: Now that's a dumb name!

Wiki as Text Adventure Game

How To Win At Negotiation

secretGeek: Predictions for 2008

How To Re-Start A Blog

Nerdgasm 101

Bug Eyed VS2008 Guy Freaks Me Out

Fuzzy Search: Check this out and report back please, o lazy web.

Idea: Ribbon Bar Item Finder

Challenge: Changing the stored credentials on 64 instances of IIS every 30 days

SecretGeek: live and dangerous!!

Revolutionary (versus Evolutionary) Code Generation

Fix and continue in Smalltalk

Designer vs Developer

Fluidic APIs are stupid... NOT!

Your Brain, And the Effects of Syntax Highlighting

Which came first... the domain model or the human?

JonGalloway.Equals(Nostradamus)

My First WPF Application - A visual tour

Visual Studio News Channel: Give Hanselman a Go!

How to block websites that kill your productivity.

Go Don Syme!! Go F#!!

The future of microsoft development

The Inaugural TimeSnapper Professional 'MikeG.Next' Honorary Award Of Linkblogging Excellence

Step 5 of 25 to Building a Micro-ISV: Install traffic monitoring on your web site

Brisbane .Net Developers: Interested in MOSS integration or K2 Workflow?

General Purpose Programming Language... Good For Nothing?

A weird casestudy in technical research

The Next Mike Gunderloy

Look at all the things I'm NOT doing!

World's Simplest Code Generator: implemented in pure Javascript

Scoop: Microsoft Expression Suite To Run On Apple Computers!

Microsoft Expression Family... WTF?

Exec Inline AddIn for Visual Studio 2005 -- Get It Now

Sick Of Being Nagged to Restart, Every 10 Minutes After An Update?

What a week in source code!

That Shakespeare Loved His Code

do you want a server farm with that bottle of milk?

Choosing between Apple, Microsoft and Linux

Perfect Productivity with TimeSnapper 2.4

TestDriven.net-Gate: Don't Blame Microsoft, Blame Jason Weber

The Yerkes-whatzy law of who now?

Translating a little bit of (microsoft) double talk...

The Truth About Attention Deficit Dis... Oh, new mail.

Silverlight, Apollo... Lock In?

An Open Letter To Scott Guthrie.

Step 3 of 25 -- Design Your Website

10 "Million-Dollar-Ideas" from secretGeek.net

Powershell on Rails -- MonadRail!

Windows Updates Make Me Nervous

How Naming Works At Microsoft

Agile and Test-Driven: A Marriage Made In Hell?

ISV: Independent of what?

TimeSnapper 2.3: Extract Text Using Optical Character Recognition

Step 2 of 25 to Building a Micro-ISV: Reliable Hosting

Podcasts I like

Lifelogging? Think TimeSnapper.com!

TimeSnapper 2.2 -- Auto Popup? That sounds terrible!

Five More Things You Didn't Need To Know

How to Sneak .net 2.0 into an organization

What percent of normal people have the .net framework installed?

Download It Now! Exec Inline: A VS2003 add-in that lets you run a chunk of code

Three Laws of Software Development

Predictions for 2007

Thanks for a genuine belly chuckle, Joel

Download NextAction: Updated

In Vista, final step of installation launches YOU!!

Gunderloy, Spolsky, Atwood: three big idiots.

Deadlocks: What would Feynman do?

And Microsoft has Won

How To Be A Couple Of Micro-ISV People On Opposite Sides of the World

Passwords in Sql Server 2000 are Case Insensitive by default -- WTF?

A Very Simple .net Model View Controller

Concurrency Bug in all editions of Visual Studio

Demo: Exec-Inline, an Add-in that executes the currently selected code, immediately

Switching off the OS

ShinyPower Now Opensource

Annotating Your Code with Simple Tests

Realtime CSS Editor -- with thanks to SquareFree.

The Truth About Lisp

Transparency In Vista

TimeSnapper 2 Goes Live!

The absolute most fun activity in the world

PowerTools for Powershell

Why Geeks are Freaks

Boolean Operators Missing From Cell Expressions In Excel?

F# -- the 3 minute guide!

BabySteps In WPF And XAML

Tech.Ed Sydney

Concurrent Tautologys (all happening together at once)

What next for the 3 minute guides??

Babysteps in WATIR

3 Examples from the Future of CSS

Web 2.0: Something's Missing

An Absolute Beginner's Babysteps In PowerShell...

ShinyPower!

KeyTraino

Visual Poetry Studio 2005

Marketing Weasels Who Write Code

How the Australian Tax Changes Will Affect Your 'Take Home' Pay

VB.Net Tip: IIF is a function, not a language feature

Tip o the day: Copy Text from MessageBox/Msgbox

FTL: Faster than Light -- Functional Text Language

Fajax -- the fake alternative to ajax

Ultra Mobile PC: A Boon to Private Health

Big In Japan!

Get On Up!

10 Ways to boost the Zen of Paint: Suggested improvements in MS Paint

I think you're coming back for more than just the hunting

Marked up: Finalists for the 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards

Tip: Don't Want Outlook Notification About EVERY email?

Hanseldotted

No shortage of Punny Titles over at the Monad centre

Microsoft to give away Windows for Free... (maybe)

Obstacles To International Development

Pay Day for the Ideas Rat

Is MS Windows ready for the desktop?

Comparison of three Ajax Portals

Five Ways To Play Nice with 'Live.Com'

live.com... cactus.com?

Messenger Disgruntlement

the Best of secretGeek

What is so scary about DLINQ?

LINQ love

Infinity LIMITed

Eric Sink deserves the Garry Kasparov Medal of Strategic Brilliance!

Brisbane .NET Developer Position

This Comptometric Age

Schnippetize your life

Holes In Team Foundation Server Are Good Things (Teched 2005 Australia)

Team Foundation Server: Check-in Policies

Hey Fred -- I'm off to Tech-Ed.

Problem Fixed in the Next Version!

Thus Spake Gaksloope: The future of browse and code

Winderrrr XP

Gradient Maker

Another Day for Mort

New Company, New Language, Same IDE...

Tip O The Day: Quit Buggin Me, Messenger.

VB,C#: Me My This That

Software Idea: Automatic ScreenShot Journal

Rule Number 1: Give Me Screenshots.

Spolsky Madness!

Enhance Reporting Services By Including A Function Library

Push a Bamboo Shoot Under Your Fingernails If You Use Windows Every Day And Didn't Already Know This Simple Fact

Visual Basic 6: Going... Going... Gone...

Four Thoughts For Friday

Are you seeking a .Net Role in Brisbane or Sydney?

Can Microsoft Reporting Services retrieve data from Oracle?

Usability in Visual Studio: Further Nitpickings of a Nitwit

Sure beats Northwind.

Impress your geeky colleagues with clever tips and hidden treasures

Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search

Save Dog as Virtual Chicken

Coder to Developer: to the rescue again

Reporting services -- Tips and tricks

How to be depressed

Messagebox Marketing

Winnable Solitaire: Sink or Swim?

Clubbing the Crystal Dodo

The MVP Program Just Went Downhill :-)

'1954: A time when men mowed the grass wearing a tie.'

Your Help is Needed

MS Word -- Executive Edition

Lost In Translation

Signs of a bad web developer

Nobody Can Eat Fifty Eggs.

The Where, the Who and the Why of Steve Lombardi

Using Books for Support and Technical Elevation

Hungarian Polarity

How Microsoft Lost the Joel War

The um, Leon Test?

For the Love of God, Enter this Damn Competition Already!

Lowering the ceiling instead of the floor

Microsoft Crumbles Under Blogging Pressure

Fat Kid's PIN is '2751'

A Gift Bag For New Programmers...

Writer's Block, Geek-Block, and Procrastination

Getting A Longhorn Of Your Own

I have been bribed, so now I will blog.

You are NOT inadequate.

Going Full Circle: Using "Commands"

Roy's Competition: Some Suggested Add-Ins for Visual Studio.Net

Excel-Lite: Hey coder! This spreadsheet's for you!

I am not worthy

Stupid Code To The Rescue!

A few changes on the way

Court Fines Microsoft over Anti-Competitive Calculator

Why ".net" is crap.

<Rant topic='Hungarian'>Damn I get mad about stuff!

I'm rich!

'Try again after midnight'? Yeh, right!

Dogfooding Your Mother-In-Law

The four horsemen of the online apocalypse

Anti-Trust: bad geek movie

Rory Blyth style shout out to my homies

Nasty Tricksy Microsoft MVP Awards

Excel VBA: We hates it! We hates it! We hates it for ever and ever!

Einstein Quiz

An Open Letter to Technical Authors

.Net Remoting: the Quick and Dirty Guide

Don't you 'Dare' insult Microsoft

Definitive .Net and VB.Net Links

Ward Cunningham Joins Microsoft

Technical Year In review

SiteMap for secretGeek

Common Windows Shortcuts

Network Stuff

Underground XML

Visual Studio .Net Tips

"Dot-Net Awareness" Day!

Dot Net Rookie Mistakes

How to write a novel

Refactoring With Whidbey

Essential Software for Geeks and Power Browsers

SCIENTIST RECEIVES RESPONSE TO INTERGALACTIC EMAIL

The secretGeek Mailing List

Lessons From Bill Gates

GeekBlock

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