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Monday, February 04, 2008 1:11 AM

No, you're crazy! (or, the problem with assuming that computer programmers have all that much in common)

Five Non-Essential Phone Screen Questions Which Tell Me Nothing Jeff Atwood recently linked Steve Yegge's post on Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions . My first impression was that it was horrible advice. For reference, here's the five areas which Steve...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:12 PM

Why CodingHorror is horribly wrong about Blacklists and Virus Scanners

Jeff and I had an interesting debate on virus scanners a few weeks ago. He posted his take on the conversation yesterday, and (surprise!) we both think we won the argument. I believe the difference of opinion really comes down to a few different assumptions...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:25 PM

Conditionally showing Google Ads

Summary Consider hiding ads on your site depending on how the user got there. Why? A friend of mine recently experienced an unexpected surge in traffic to his site. He's been subject to a rampage of Digg-ers ever since then, scrambling to cut his image...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:16 AM

Alternative MIX07 Blog Bling

I registered for the MIX07 conference today, and decided I needed to add a MIX07 badge to my blog. I spent a little while looking at the official MIX07 badges and decided that, while they're very slick and exciting, they just don't speak to where...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:59 PM

Google Personalized Homepage (IG) - Read a post inline

I've been using the Google personalized homepage for a while as a simple "heads up display". I run RSS Bandit on my laptop; it's too tempting of a distraction to run on my main work computer. I've got the Google homepage set up with my top feeds, plus...
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Saturday, October 28, 2006 4:10 PM

[link] 9MinutesOfFame

Back in February, I posted about MyLastFM , an open source player for Last.FM radio. MyLastFM is a really slick looking application with some slick code under the covers. It's the product of a killer team - Eric 's the programmer and Nicole 's...
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Monday, October 09, 2006 3:03 PM

[OT] Google buying YouTube for $1.65 Billion

MarketWatch: Google to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Google Inc. said Monday it's buying No. 1 Internet video sharing Web site YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock. The deal is regarded as a largely defensive...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 2:51 PM

IE7 Standalone (Updated for IE7 Release)

Update 10/23/06 for the IE7 Release version Summary I just released a new version of the IE7 Standalone Launcher . Due to changes in this beta release of IE7, a simple batch file alone won't cut it. You can grab a zip package (two batch files, two...
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Monday, July 03, 2006 4:56 PM

Motorcycle blogging from San Diego to the Arctic Circle

As Phil mentioned earlier, my brother Brian is blogging his motorcycle trip from San Diego, California to Deadhorse, Alaska . Blogging a long trip is getting routine, but what's interesting is that Brian's actually blogging from a computer / webcam /...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:59 PM

Mentioned on DotNetRocks

I e-mailed the DotNetRocks guys a few months ago about Kim Cameron , they guy behind Microsoft's new Identity initiative. They interviewed him on DotNetRocks Episode 176 (4/25/06) and read my e-mail about the show on episode 177 . Bottom line - my e-mail...
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