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I’ve moved my blog engine once again. I started with DasBlog, then went to BlogEngine.NET and now I’m finally on WordPress. Why WordPress? You’re a .NET guy … Plain and simple. What I had, didn’t work and I need my blog to work, and work quickly. I don’t have time to write plug-ins, hacks to fix More >

For those of you who don't know, ReSharper is no longer a Visual Studio add-in. Previously if you needed to disable ReSharper for whatever reason you could do so in the Add-In Manager in Visual Studio. You no longer can. Disabling ReSharper is now termed ''Suspending'' it. You can suspend ReSharper from the Tools > Options > Resharper ...

I’ve death with numerous different advertisers and such over the few years I’ve had my blog. Just recently I spoke with the guys over at the Lounge and we decided to work together. I needed a low maintenance advertising system that could help with the monthly costs of the blog, they needed another person to join their Small Publishers network ...

I installed Windows 7 RC last night and my dual monitor support was not working. I queried a few people at my employer and Anthony Handley pointed me in the right direction. If you’re using a Dell D630 laptop and you’re running Windows 7 RC and need a video driver to support dual monitors, we’ve found this one to work out quite well: Download ...

I’ve been through the trenches of the consulting world, the good the bad the ugly, I’ve had the the full time jobs, and the freelance work, etc, etc etc. I’ve experienced projects from the ground up, maintenance projects and projects that didn't even leave the whiteboard. During the years of participating in many projects I ...

Youtube TIP: You can link (and SEEK!) to a specific point in a video using #t=2m13s at the end of a URL. The t=2m13s means t = time m = minutes s = seconds Example As shown in the video below you can specify a particular part of a video. For example, I really like the verse in this song and it starts during the first minute at the 44 ...

I’ve started a new online group: MNGroups. This group is a culmination of many different groups throughout the Minnesota area. The reason for the group is simple: Collaboration. Here in the Twin Cities we have many different groups that help solve a vast array of different problems but unfortunately we don’t have a group that is local that ...

I've been using a social network of sorts for as long as I've been using the Internet. From bulletin boards to Twitter, I've been there and still use them all to this day. Their importance is worth its weight in diamonds. Through the years of using these networks user patterns have developed and I've grown accustomed to stereotyping certain users ...

This is really old news to some blogger's,but I'm posting it again because a lot of people I know are just starting off in the blogging space.  If you have a blog you're probably wondering how many people are reading it. You can get some decent statistics from your feed (RSS/ATOM, etc). However, most blog engines do not provide a way for ...

For those of you who use GMail mobile (as I do) there is a new version out. Go to http://m.google.com/mail to get it. New Features I'm not looking at the exact features, but these are the ones I noticed right away. Pros Account Switching - This is huge. I have multiple Gmail Accounts. The two I use most are my personal one and the one for my ...