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Programming Computers Closures in JavaScript - James Padolsey - A closure, in JavaScript, can simply be described as a retained scope; at least, this is how I think of it. The benefit of a closure...

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...