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How to teach your girlfriend Hexadecimal?

It is an age old question: How do you teach your girlfriend hex? I encountered this problem when I was a web developer in college for a late night student activities program aptly named  Late Nite Binghamton.  My co-worker and girlfriend Mallory wa…

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Snippet Designer in April’s MSDN Magazine!

I am excited to announce that the Snippet Designer is featured in the April issue of MSDN Magazine.                    It is featured in the Toolbox column where they highlight useful tools…

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Snippet Designer 1.1 Released

I just released Snippet Designer 1.1.  This is not a major release but just some bug fixes and often requested changes to make the snippet designer more useful.   Some of the most notable changes are: Languages Service are turned OFF by…

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FastSharp – Write it, Execute it

UPDATE: New version on FastSharp that includes a Windows 7 Gadget!  Learn more here. Last year I wrote this program which I named FastSharp.  It is a text editor which lets you compile and run C# code that would normally exist … Continue reading

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Master Boot Record Fiasco

The Error I restarted my computer for the first time in a couple weeks and it would not boot.  I was faced with a screen which said: Grub Loading Stage 1.5 Error 22   A nice helpful error.  Now I was … Continue reading

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Self Documenting Code

I have come across many developers who believe that comments are not necessary to make code readable.  They argue that code should document itself.  By this they mean that the code you write should be clear and have good enough … Continue reading

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