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A quick update to fix a few “issues” (a.k.a. bugs). Also added support for direct messages. I haven’t heard much in the way of feedback. I guess it must so good that no one has...

I needed a word wrapping function to format text to the console. Being the lazy coder that I am, I immediately ‘Google’ed for code. What I found worked but was a bit buggy and somewhat...

Programming Computers Simplifying the Process of Calling a WCF Service from Silverlight - After writing nearly the same code method after method (aside from changes in the event name and method name) I opted for...

Well the little bit of feed back I’ve been getting has been positive so far. I wouldn’t mind hearing more comments. In the meantime, I’ve updated TweetZ to fix an issue with duplicate id’s which...

Having recently bought a TomTom GPS, I was unsatisfied with the “suction” mount. It worked but occasionally failed and the GPS unit was too far way being on the wind shield. There a number of...

Programming Computers Prism Silverlight - 10 Things to Know - Prism is one of the hottest topics in Silverlight. Here, are 10 things that every developer should know about Prism. For a great write-up on...

I’m what you might call a casual twitter user. I follow a few dozen people and tweet 3 or 4 times a day. For a long time, I was content to use the Twitter Web...

Programming Computers John Robbins’ Blog : Paraffin3.1: New and Improved! - Produce Windows Installer XML (WiX) fragments of files in your installations. The big feature of Paraffin is that is automates the management of your...

AdSensor is a Windows Vista/Windows 7 Sidebar gadget that monitors your AdSense account. Now you can keep track of your Internet riches without logging into the AdSense Web page. You can read more about it...

Programming Computers Regular Expression Library – A Silverlight regular expression tester. “wordwrap” for JavaScript - James Padolsey - This function emulates PHP’s wordwrap. Using your Personal Computer 10 Useful Firefox Extensions to Supercharge Firebug -...