The first thing you need to do is get the Snow Leopard install DVD from Apple. Apple didn’t introduce downloadable OS upgrades until Snow Leopard 10.6.6, so you need to install Snow Leopard from the i
Intel just sent me an IvyBridge Ultrabook to try out and review as a development machine. It’s not a final machine and won’t ever be sold by Intel. The main purpose of the machine is to show what can
I recently received two Twitter direct messages from new followers. They were obviously phishing attacks that happened as a result of the followers account being hacked. The messages were “lol wat r y
I often switch my Bluetooth headset between my laptop and my phone. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to do this in Windows so here’s a quick post to help you out. 1. Double-click the Bluetoo
Here are the DevReach 2012 speaker blogs and Twitter accounts. Enjoy! BLOG FEED FILE You can subscribe to the DevReach 2012 speaker blogs by importing this [OPML file](http://jongallant.com/DevReach20
Here are the That Conference One Day 2012 : Harper College speaker blogs and Twitter accounts. Enjoy! BLOG FEED FILE You can subscribe to the That Conference One Day 2012 : Harper College speaker blog
People give me a hard time because I work at Microsoft and use Apple products. The truth is that I dev iPhone apps and you can only do that on a Mac. I still love Microsoft and Windows, but you got to
Here are the Philly DotNet Code Camp 2012.1 speaker blogs and Twitter accounts. Enjoy! BLOG FEED FILE You can subscribe to the Philly DotNet Code Camp 2012.1 speaker blogs by importing this [OPML file
Here are the Code Camp NYC 2012 speaker blogs and twitter accounts. You can subscribe to all speaker blogs using the OPML file and follow all the speakers on Twitter using the Code Camp NYC 12 Twitter
Here are the ThatConference speakers and twitter accounts. You can subscribe to all speaker blogs using the OPML file and follow all the speakers on Twitter using the ThatConference Twitter List. BLOG
The is a post in a new blog series I’m writing called Microsoftie Perks Yes it is true. Earlier this week at the company meeting Ballmer gave all Microsofties new Windows 8 machines, a Surface RT and
Here are all the Minnesota Developers Conference 2012 (MDC12) speaker blogs and twitter accounts. Enjoy! BLOG FEED (OPML) FILE You can subscribe to the MDC12 speaker blogs by importing this OPML file
I’ve been working on an app in my spare time called “Conf Speakers” to help us subscribe to and follow devs who speak at conferences. Most conference sites don’t provide an easy way to do so, which le
The is a post in a blog series I’m writing called "Microsoftie Perks" Over the years I have found many bugs in Microsoft products. I want to help Microsoft have the best products out there,
I just pushed my first Google Chrome extension to the web store the other day. The name of my extension includes “Google Reader” and, according to the official Google Chrome extension branding guideli
I’m an avid Google Reader user. I star and unstar items a lot and sometimes my starred items pile up. I wrote a few lines of JavaScript to unstar all items in bulk and blogged about it back in June. R
NuGet is amazing, but I often find myself typing in the same search string over and over again. This usually happens when I don’t realize what tab I currently have selected. Yes, I could train myself
Problem Microsoft ASP.NET Web API (RTM) references Newtonsoft.Json (>= 4.5.6) (AKA Json.net) Twitterizer 2 references Newtonsoft.Json (=4.5.5) You can’t have both Newtonsoft.Json (>= 4.5.6) AND
The is a post in a blog series I’m writing called "Microsoftie Perks" All Microsofties get a free gym membership to a couple of local gyms. We could instead choose to get cash if we don’t wa
I have a long running script that needs to run once a day and I’d like to store the results of that script in cache for the rest of the day so only one user (or any automated http request) will incur