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The Programmer's Body
I am broken, my friends. I've blogged before on: The Computer Back - Pain and the Programmer in 2004 The Programmer's Hands also in 2004 Today I'm wearing a neck brace. Yes, I'm one of the "looks like they are suing someone" people. I hate those Read More...
Awesome Visual Studio Command Prompt and PowerShell icons with Overlays
I'm not using one of the "icon people." By that I mean, I don't collect icons, or change all the icons on my system to custom fancypants icons. But, I noticed today that I was using the Command Prompt along side a Visual Studio Command Prompt Read More...
Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 - Part 1 - Building a WEI 7.9 and RFC for building a GOM (God's Own Machine)
Got enough acronyms in that title? WEI - Windows Experience Index. How fast is your machine? If you say "I've got a WEI 6.0" you've got a good machine, for example. RFC - Request for Comments. This is crowdsourcing. I want to know what YOU think Read More...
Do they deserve the gift of your keystrokes?
There are a finite number of keystrokes left in your hands before you die. - Me One of the most influential (to me personally) posts Jon Udell has written was his classic " count your keystrokes ." I've mentioned this post in a number of my Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 218 - Baratunde Thurston on Punditry, Politics, Race, iPads, The Onion and the Web
My two-hundred-and-eighteenth podcast is up . Scott's in DC this week speaking at Blogging While Brown and he sits down with multimedia personality Baratunde Thurston . He's a Web Editor for TheOnion.com, a founder at JackAndJillPolitics.com, a host on Read More...
The Internet is an Interruption System
The title of this post is a quote from a story in Wired, which was passed along to me by one of my peers. He sent the link in response to my sending an interesting story from the NY Times, which draws similar conclusions about the impact of technology Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 216 - Geek Relationship Tips with Scott's Wife
My two-hundred-and-sixteenth podcast is up . Scott's on vacation this week at the beach and Scott's Wife Mo joins him on the show to share Geek Relationship Tips. Is it hard to be married to a geek? What are some techniques for avoiding conflict and having Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 215 - World Airplane Travel Tips with James Senior
My two-hundred-and-fifteenth podcast is up . Scott and James are on a world tour and racking up the miles. James shares some of his best travel tips and tricks, and Scott shares how he moves through airport security as fast as possible. It's Techie Travel Read More...
Hanselminutes on 9 - Follow up, 6 months later, On Managing People with Chris Sells
Six months ago when my role changed a bit , I took Chris Sells to lunch at our local food court (where the lady at the Indian Restaurant always shakes the big piece of chicken off her serving spoon before she dishes my plate, but I'm not bitter) to talk Read More...
2009 Blogged - Greatest Hits
While I (really) unplugged in December of 2009, you can access a nice calendar of all my 2009 posts (as well as other years) at this link . In 2008 I published a Greatest Hits post that I will keep updated, but here's a list of links to the posts I most Read More...
Square Foot Gardening for Programmers
As I've said before, I'm not handy, but I'm trying . I want to also point out that I know exactly ZERO about gardening. All that said, here's what I did this year. April 10th This April my wife said it was time for us to have a garden: One day, last week, Read More...
Hanselminutes on 9 - Managing People (and wisdom with Chris Sells)
An email went out to our organization (Server & Tools Online) by one of our GMs that had a bullet (it was bullet #2 I believe) that said: As community engagement and quality of resources are key goals for STO we are broadening the responsibility of Read More...
Best Practices for Individual Contribution
I just got an email from a GM (General Manager) at Microsoft who is giving a presentation soon about "How to be an effective IC (Individual Contributor)" and he's collecting best practices. He wanted a brain dump from me and others on tips. Read More...
Burnt Day - I need a Do-Over for Monday
Whatever you do, don't tell my Boss because I'm just sick about this. Like physically ill. I have a confession to make. I got nothing done on Monday. I need to call a "do-over" for the entire day. The whole day was a comedy of errors and meetings. Read More...
Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You
There's a lot of information, both useless and useful, on Twitter. When you get started on Twitter the shear amount of crap can be totally overwhelming. Twitter's a lot like Tivo (Digital Video Recorders). It'll record everything and everyone you're interested Read More...
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