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A group of us here in Ann Arbor, MI are organizing a monthly nerd lunch. The goal is to get local software developers together to talk tech… or whatever you want. Our lunches will be...

Scott Hanselman’s Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List has always been an great read. Here’s my list, considerably smaller and surprisingly different. I use fewer programs and feel applications like browsers and IDE’s should...

It’s “Black Friday” but so what. I do almost all of my shopping on the Internet. Better choices, Yes. Better prices, Yes. Not waiting in line, Priceless. Don’t know about you but I still have...

ASP.Net has a boat load of methods for dealing with paths. However, no where can I find a method to convert a virtual path (~/) to its equivalent Uri. Perhaps it’s there but darn if...

This is the second article in my occasional Managing Money Series. Managing Money In the previous article I discussed the importance of measuring what you spend. Hopefully, you’ve made use of some the free or...

Half a year of links! Didn’t think I would maintain the pace but some how I’ve managed. Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3 - ScottGu’s Blog – Scott talks about...

You can read about the new features in my earlier blog posts. FreeSnap 1.5 Beta 1 FreeSnap 1.5 Beta 2 This release adds a few more refinements to task switcher algorithm. It also adds a...

CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies, and technology trends in a variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .Net, Ruby and PHP. According to some, this...

Last week, I released beta 1 which introduced a new style of task switching. Beta 2 includes additional features. All configuration settings are contained in a configuration file (FreeSnap.cfg) Half screen resizing The command line...

[Ballmer: No on WebKit, yes on app store Latest Microsoft News - CNET News](http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10090118-75.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5) - Despite acknowledging that WebKit’s open-source nature is “interesting,” Microsoft’s chief executive elaborated on why he says the software giant is...