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Announcing EpubSharp

April 5th, 2010 No Comments

Over the past few days I’ve put some time into working on a library to create EPUB documents in .NET.  When I first did a search for this a few months ago I really didn’t find anything that suited my needs: a library that I could use to create EPUB documents on the fly, in [...]

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New Podcast: Short Order Code

August 14th, 2009 3 Comments

Over the past several months I’ve mentioned occasionally that I’m working on a new software development focused podcast. The time has finally come for me to make a more official announcement about this new endeavour. The new show called Short Order Code. The show will be a series of audio podcasts and video screencasts focusing [...]

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Honing the Craft

August 10th, 2009 No Comments

We were on vacation for a couple of months back staying with my wife’s family in the US.  I didn’t completely unplug during the trip, though I wasn’t checking work email, my personal accounts were down to a cursory glance once-per-day, and I’ve dialed back on the Twitter usage quite significantly. In some of my [...]

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Regaining my Chops

June 30th, 2009 No Comments

It’s been a good long while since I’ve written much in the way of production code. I’ve tinkered here and there with some small side projects, but rarely have I given much thought into how those pieces of code were written so long as they got the job done; after all I didn’t expect that [...]

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Stack Overflow – Where Experts Exchange Information

May 17th, 2009 No Comments

Last year a new Q&A site for developers called Stack Overflow was opened to the public. We covered the site a bit on an episode of the AGP a few months back, but I just realized the other day that I hadn’t posted about it here. The site is focused on the interaction between software [...]

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